Wrik Mead’s Outcognito in Queer City Cinema’s Qaleidoscope: Queer Film on Tour

Wednesday, January 23, 2019 - 10:00am to Thursday, February 28, 2019 - 9:00pm

QALEIDOSCOPE: Refraction, Abstraction & Play features Canadian QTBIPOC films that explore, question and play with identity to propose and investigate diverse ways of looking at sexuality, gender and race.

Images, characters, ideas, and realities collide in fantastical, personal, and playful ways. Experimental, artistically rigorous, heavyhitting, and thoughtful, the films involve issues such as feminism, race, racism, class, identity politics, community, colonization, conceptual art, politics, religion, violence, popular culture, gender, sexuality, and transgressive and subversive play. A decidedly tongue-in-cheek disposition and sensibility inject the tour with moments of intelligent, incisive humour.

Filmmakers: David Ng & Jen Sungshine, Kristin Li, Kent Monkman, Jess MacCormack, Shelley Niro, Clark Nikolai, Vivek Shraya, Wrik Mead, Salazar & Joella Cabalu,  Rose & Wy Joung , David Geiss, Hanna Che & Harry Forbez, Diane Obomsawin, Ben Edelberg, Evelyn Pakinewatik, Diana Khong, Rob Fatal, Katharine King So, Dan McIntyre, Howard Adler, Candy Renae Fox & Leo Koziol, Thirza Cuthand

More info at: https://queercitycinema.ca/tour2019

 

 

Website: 
https://queercitycinema.ca/tour2019
Queer City Cinema’s Qaleidoscope: Queer Film on Tour poster

Wrik Mead Outcognito

human eyes on textured background
Wednesday, September 5, 2018 - 12:30pm

Wrik Mead's Outcognito (2017) made its’ Canadian premiere at the 42nd Montréal World Festival, Aug 23rd-Sept 3rd. It will go on to screen at the 21st Antimatter Film Festival in Victoria, BC and the Social Justice Film Festival in Seattle, Washington in October.

Fear meets gay desire against an audio background of sitcom homophobia and jarring personal testimonies. Textured layers of figures, rotoscoped and real, move in and out of difficult scenarios, resolving into knowing acceptance.

42nd Montréal World Festival: http://www.ffmA 5-minute film Outcognito (2017) by Wrik Mead, made its’ Canadian premiere at the 42nd Montréal World Festival, Aug 23rd-Sept 3rd. It will now go on to screen at the 21st Antimatter Film Festival in Victoria, BC and the Social Justice Film Festival in Seattle, Washington in October.-montreal.org/en/home.html

1432 de Bleury Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2J1 CANADA

The Montreal World Film Festival | MWFF

www.ffm-montreal.org

The World Film Festival is the only competitive film event in North America recognized by FIAPF, the International Federation of Film Producers? Associations just as the great european film festivals such as Cannes, Venice and Berlin.

 

21st Antimatter Film Festival: antimatter.ca

636 Yates Street, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 1L3

 

Social Justice Film Festival: www.socialjusticefilmfestival.org

9425 35th Ave NE, Suite E

Seattle, Washington 98115

Outcognito: Wrik Mead

Thursday, March 22, 2018 - 9:30pm

Wrik Mead’s Outcognito will make its’ world premiere at the 56th Ann Arbor Film Festival. It will be included in the Films in Competition 5: Out Night programme on Thursday, March 22nd. 

Fear meets gay desire against an audio background of sitcom homophobia and jarring personal testimonies. Textured layers of figures, rotoscoped and real, move in and out of difficult scenarios, resolving into knowing acceptance.

 

Wrik Mead, AOCA, MA Fine Arts

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Art

Expanded Animation and Integrated Media

Interim Chair, Photography, Printmaking and Publications

Website: 
https://www.aafilmfest.org/schedule
Email: 
wmead@faculty.ocadu.ca
Ann Arbor Film Festival poster

Wrik Mead: Futility

peron in red costume watching obscured television
Friday, January 12, 2018 - 10:00am to Saturday, February 3, 2018 - 5:00pm

Futility: Works in Video

Aggregate Space Gallery is pleased to present this selection of video works from our annual open call for time-based media. For the 5th time, we intentionally chose to forgo a themed call so that a cohesive show may be discovered in the relationships between some of the 80+ submissions. This year, the video works that emerged question life’s purpose, striving at the impossible, and how failure may be necessary to bring us closer to find meaning in our often-futile choices. Although individual works deal in broad themes like creativity, love, spirituality, and hope, each of these videos remind us of fleeting efforts and the results that elude us, some even begging the question, “what’s the point?”.

Featuring works by Kelsey S. Brewer, Laneya Billingsley, Jamee Crusan, Nelmarie du Preez, Brynda Glazier, Tim Kopra, Wrik Mead, Allison Roberts, Gary Setzer, and Angela Willetts.

Featuring Artists: Laneya Billingsley, Kelsey S. Brewer, Jamee Crusan, Nelmarie du Preez, Brynda Glazier, Tim Kopra, Wrik Mead, Allison Roberts, Gary Setzer, and Angela Willetts.

The exhibition includes Wrik Mead's hour long animated film 1975 from the installation Draw the Line.

Opening Reception
12 January 6-10pm

Second Saturday Artist Talk
13 January 11am

First Friday Event
2 February 5-8pm

Friction / Function 4: 3 February 7pm
Curated by Jesse Hewit: jesse@aggregatespacegallery.org

 

Gallery Hours
Fridays and Saturdays 1-5pm and by appointment

Gallery Location
801 West Grand Avenue - entrance on West Street

Venue & Address: 
Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, California 801 West Grand Avenue - entrance on West Street
Website: 
https://www.aggregatespacegallery.org
Email: 
jesse@aggregatespacegallery.org

Pleasure Dome presents: Wrik Mead, Local Hero

Friday, February 24, 2017 - 7:30pm

Friday February 24, 7:30 Doors/ 8 pm Screening

@ OCADU, 100 McCaul Street, Room 190

Co-presentation with OCAD University

Part of Winter 2017

 

Pleasure Dome presents: Wrik Mead, Local Hero

With a moving-image practice spanning 30 years, and a stalwart, ongoing dedication to the molding of young artist minds at OCAD University, Toronto-based media artist Wrik Mead is truly a local hero. His distinct short-form works combine an animator’s patience with the reflexivity of the DIY psychodrama, producing brilliant first-person narratives of desire, difference and accommodation. Mead’s intelligent, sensitive parables are an intoxicating, visceral mix of painstaking pixilation, fairy-tale allegory and queer-identity. This special retrospective will be held at OCAD University—Mead’s alma mater and place of work for over 20 years.

Venue & Address: 
OCADU 100 McCaul Street, Room 190
a number of photographic images of people