Triple Bill by Isabelle Pauwels
Winner of the 2008 Toronto Images Festival's Best Off Screen Award

In the Blackwood Gallery, Belgian-Canadian artist Isabelle Pauwels, who lives in Vancouver, has installed her video projection Triple Bill, set up as a mini-cinema in the gallery. Comprised of appropriated film, a series of subtitled monologues, and an unexpected encounter, this trio of videos recounts Pauwels’ explorations within a number of notorious, now either dilapidated or demolished porn theatres in Vancouver. Her installation curiously and brashly explores contemporary morality, feminine identity, representations of sexuality, historical feminist interventions into public realms, and shifting urban and subcultural space. A catalogue, produced in collaboration with Artspeak, will be launched in late April.

Cineplastic Campus by Stéphane Gilot

Belgian-Canadian artist Stéphane Gilot, who lives and works in Montreal, has transformed the e|gallery (and its adjacent Video Wall, both in the CCT Building) into his project Cineplastic Campus. As artist-in-residence with the gallery, Gilot has worked with university faculty and artists to produce a series of lectures on subjects that range from new media culture, photography and the uncanny, pedagogy and perception, representations of contemporary identity, the worlds of cyberspace, and possible convergences of these subjects. These lectures take place in an elaborate model of UTM campus that Gilot has carefully constructed in the e|gallery.