Newfoundland Pavilion members are spending the weekend on planning/specs for Tasmania. The next water-world is in our sights. Stay-tuned

fiat lux redux

Will Gill is happy to report that his prototype illuminati suit is now being designed and constructed. When complete, the neoprene wetsuit will be outfitted with dozens of water-proof lights.

The suit will be used in the filming of Gill's video in July, 2010. Actual image/schematics to follow.

CAGE

Considering the Doctor . . .

Doctor Who resently (sic?) spent some time in 1580 Venice (The Vampires of Venice). Enos Dumpy, a 30-year Who fan, was taken by season 5's interest in both Venice and Angels, and remembered that like his CAGE Project, the good Doctor's TARDIS has a Zero-Room (http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Zero_Room). Perhaps there's a BBC sponsorship here (NP would welcome any interest from BBC brass for crass cross-pollination and product-placement).
New CAGE sketches to follow. E.D.

Will's Water World

Will Gill is planning sites and participants for the summer shooting of his video. Preliminary plans have colleague Bruce Johnson testing the fridgit waters outside of New Chelsea, Trinity Bay Newfoundland in Gill's experimental wet-suit. Images of the site are bove, shooting to begin once the North Atlantic becomes warm enough to risk a land-based mammal's submerging.

Angel / Cage

Enos Dumpy has finally weighed in on preliminary sketches for NP's Venice presence.

Dumpy's intervention will include the first in a series of what the artist calls "uninvited gifts" to a number of unassuming, international publics.

"Cage" will be a functioning Faraday Cage, placed outside of NP's internal premises. For those unaware with the intricasies of 19th century science, a Farady Cage is a simple physical space, born of mundane materials, wherein no elcetromagentic signal may trespass.

Once an armchair physicist's paraphenalia, Dumpy's CAGE assumes the perfect sancutary; a place where the interaction of digital life, cellphones, data-squirts and survellainces end by hitting the nasty horizon of the simple copper mesh of the confessional. The result is a public-private space.

Drawings, theory and yatta-yatta to follow. Oh yeh, nearly forgot: more about Enos' 'Angels' too.

NP in NYC

This week Pavilion founders Will Gill and Peter Wilkins trek to the core of the Big Apple for research, feedback and negotiations with potential partners both lofty and wee. Expect sightings in locales ranging from SoHo to points North. Full update after the sojourn.

NLAC endorses NP

Newfoundland Pavilion received its first public ($$) support on the road to Venice. The Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council has provided seed funding to Will Gill for a component of the Pavilion's installations.

manifest-o

Newfoundland Pavilion (founded October, 2009) is a collective of artists working in video, installation, painting, performance, photography and text-based works. Together the collective’s members seek to create an array of new, site-specific installations, environments and interventions. Some of the key ideas that shape the collective’s projects are:

• An intent to avoid the insular aspects of ‘regionalism’; i.e. to create and show tailored projects in sites and to audiences beyond Newfoundland
• A playful questioning and interaction with accepted, established hierarchies in the art world, including art galleries, international art festivals, art publications and the web.
• To integrate diverse voices into a single network of meaning, each orbiting the others. This network is assigned to sites where international artists and audiences gather.
• Beyond the three founding members, the collective will engage other collaborators in projects, as warranted.

employee of the month 1.2

Bruce Johnson is a curator/writer who, until a few years ago considered himself a recovered artist. Then, off the wagon he fell, and the resulting bump created Enos Dumpy. Dumpy's bio is ongoing, in constant flux and construction. More about him and his antics soon.

When not indentured to Newfoundland Pavilion, Johnson hides out at The Rooms (www.therooms.ca), where internal rumour has him dabbling occasionally with the art of others. His first novel, "Firmament" will be relased this fall by Nova Scotia's Gaspereau Press (www.gaspereaupress.com).

employee of the month 1.1

Will Gill's practice has evolved from solely sculptural exploration, to one that encompasses sculpture, painting, photography and video work. His subjective interests vary but one can safely say that he has a skewed, but often beautiful, take on human nature. Will and his musings routinely appear in artist-run centres, commercial galleries, and public galleries/museums at home and abroad. A new video/installation work, a key component to NP's upcoming Venice pavilion, is now in pre-production planning. Stay-tuned for updates.

For more on the individual Will Gill (when we allow him to stray from the collective's all-seeing eye) check-out www.williamgill.ca

employee of the month 1.0

Peter Wilkins is perhaps best known for his Kinetic Portraits of 12 Canadian Writers, which critically engaged twelve of Canada's notable and most celebrated authors, including Margaret Atwood, Douglas Coupland, Yann Martel and Jane Uruqhart. Originally exhibited at The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery in 2007 the entire suite was purchased by the Portrait Gallery of Canada in 2008.

Revcent projects include Gander International exploring the design and aesthetic of late 1950s modernism at Gander Airport, last year's stint as the inaugural artist-in-residence at Memorial University, Newfoundland, and recent work exploring the massive environs of the Churchill Falls Hydro Development.

Peter's wiki entry is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wilkins

The Skinny . . .

So here's where we are at and what we are, simply . . .

3 artists working as a corporate 1, looking beyond our shores for frolic, adventure, intel and (maybe) glory. Quaint, you say - think not.

NP offers a tapped-in look into the world's landline; a way in and out.

In the next year we will share our first interventions, pilgrimages and dalliances in locales from Venice to Hobart.

Don't Look Now

Newfoundland Pavilion is issuing new work for Tasmania, Venice, England and other wet-worn coasts.

First-up is Venice, perhaps (you might say) too adventurous or ambitious? Think not dear reader; Venice is even now in NP’s slippery sights and grasp. Sure, some funding is pending, but others are not. NP in Italy is assured, though we admit the ongoing need for muocho-help.

Newfoundland Pavilion

Formed in October of 2009. Newfoundland Pavilion works to create new systems of art making and exibiting. The collective envisions projects that supercede the scope of it's singular members, while considering means of engaging audiences in ways outside the confines of traditional art gallery structures.

At the heart of the collective's work is a committment to engaging publics beyond the shores of Newfoundland and Canada.

Our shared interest in international sites for art (as a global conversation), leads us to a number of strategies:

1. To create site/time-specific projects in locations around the world.
2. To engage existing opportunities for international exhibitions, including art-fairs, Biennales, festivals, etc.
3. To actively mirror or deconstruct these formentioned art structures.

Newfoundland Pavilion sights Venice

Newfoundland Pavilion's long gondola-ride to Venice 2011 has begun. Stay tuned, we will be updating soon.

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