Artists' Talk, Visualizing Winnipeg
Thu. Nov. 19, 2020
Artists’ Talk
Leslie Supnet and Henning Frederik Malz
English-1004-001 Visualizing WinnipegTuesday, November 24, 2020
2:30pm – 3:45pm CST
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Visualizing Winnipeg is a course that examines how Winnipeg has been depicted and represented in a variety of media, from graphic novel to photography to film. To extend our investigations, we will be joined on Tuesday, November 24 by the artists and filmmakers Leslie Supnet and Henning Frederik Malz, who will discuss their recent work in relation to the material culture and built forms of the city. Complementing their work with the moving image, both Supnet and Malz have recently mobilized Instagram to explore how Winnipeg manifests itself in objects and souvenirs, ordinary buildings and everyday spaces of the city. Supnet and Malz reveal how the city is archived in its material traces and built structures and offer a way to see the city anew, through an archaeology of Value Village finds and an inventory of functional architecture.
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Leslie Supnet is a contemporary experimental filmmaker from the Filipino diaspora who creates media works that explore themes of loss, change and the passage of time. Using animation, live-action, found footage and material exploration, Supnet’s process is guided by lyricism and experimenting with analog and digital special effects. Leslie completed her MFA in Film at York University in 2016 and has previously taught at various artist-run centres in Canada, at OCAD University and through TIFF’s Reel Comfort program.
Henning Frederik Malz is a video artist originally from the Ruhr area in Germany with a background in Media Arts from the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. He has organized, presented and curated film programmes and exhibitions both independently and as part of organizations such as Simultanhalle Cologne and Pleasure Dome Toronto. His video works have been shown and exhibited at the Images Festival Toronto, European Media Arts Festival Osnabrueck, Kassel Dokfest, Videonale Scope Bonn, PACT Zollverein Essen, MMK Frankfurt, Craig Baldwin’s Other Cinema San Francisco and at a number of Goethe Institutes around the world amongst many others.
Presented with the support of the Department of English Special Programmes Committee.