Redmond Entwistle – Fall 2009 Artist in Residence

New York City based artist Redmond Entwistle was LIFT’s Fall 2009 artist in residence. During his six -week stay in Toronto Redmond created a new 16mm film project Satellite with LIFT. Satalllite was premiered October 17th, 2009 at Gallery TPW. Jacob Korczynski produced an essay to accompany the presentation of Satellite that can be downloaded at the bottom of this page.

New York City based artist Redmond Entwistle was LIFT’s Fall 2009 artist in residence. During his six -week stay in Toronto Redmond created a new 16mm film project Satellite with LIFT. Satalllite was premiered October 17th, 2009 at Gallery TPW. Jacob Korczynski produced an essay to accompany the presentation of Satellite that can be downloaded at the bottom of this page.

Redmond also presented a course for six participants Sound-Cinema-City (details below as part of LIFT’s Fall 2009 workshop season).

Redmond Entwistle’s residency at LIFT was generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Redmond Entwistle is an artist-filmmaker currently living in
New York. Entwistle employs documentary and abstract modes of film-making,
often investigating histories of social displacement and creating portraits of
cities anchored on the invisible or the implied. Recent works include Monuments
(2009), Skein (2007), and Paterson-Lódz (2006). Entwistle studied at California
Institute of the Arts and the Whitney Independent Study Program. He has
presented projects in recent group shows at Miguel Abreu Gallery (NY), Nought
to Sixty (ICA, London) and has an upcoming solo exhibition at Art in General
(NY).

SOUND–CINEMA–CITY – Workshop – Explore sound using cinema and gallery spaces with artist in residence Redmond Entwistle • September 22nd, 24th, 6pm–10pm and October 1st, 6pm–10pm 2009

This three-part workshop on concrete sound recording, the city and cinema with lift’s Fall 2009 visiting artist in residence Redmond Entwistle will explore ways in which the city can be represented through sound installation using both cinema and gallery spaces. The workshop will start with a class looking at some examples of spatial sound, cinema and architecture. In particular Edgar Varese’s Poeme Electronique for the Philips Pavilion, an amazing contorted, gravity defying pavilion structure, designed by Le Corbusier for the 1953 Worlds Fair, with 450 distinct spatially arranged channels and film projections. The class will also race through the history of sound in cinema exhibition from the early talkies (via Fantasound) to Dolby Surround.

The second part of the workshop will be split into two parts, the first will consider new works by contemporary artists and filmmakers working primarily with sound to construct spatial narratives about the city in both the cinema and the gallery. The second half of the class will take the form of a workshop in which we discuss individuals’ project proposals, take a look at some possible tools for recording and installing sound, then select and learn how to use particular sound recorders. Participants will be encouraged to use a variety of new and old, high and low tech sound technology from dictaphone to Nagra to flash recorders. In the third part of the workshop the group will review the materials collected, and assist in developing the performance or installation of each work, which we will then consider and critique as a group.

Thursday 1 October 2009 –

Non-members: FREE
Members: FREE

Location:
LIFT 
1137 Dupont Street 
Toronto ON Canada