Wednesday March 20–21, 2024
I will be giving an artist talk and phytography workshop and doing studio visits at the University of Manitoba’s School of Art.
Looking forward to being back on Treaty No. 1 to work with School of Art students!
details here
Research garden: a compendium of lost moments (Installation view)
The opening reception for Research garden: a compendium of lost moments is this Friday November 10, 7pm-10pm during Hamilton’s November Art Crawl. I hope you can make it!
Research garden: a compendium of lost moments is curated by Lesley Loksi Chan and runs from Friday October 27 to Friday December 1st at Centre[3] for Artistic and Social Practice in partnership with the Dandelion Film Collective.
The exhibit catalogues my phytographic work with curated and unintentional plants living in Kensington Market, from 2020–2022. Details below and here.
Visit the exhibit Wednesday–Friday 10am–5pm.
Centre[3] 173 James Street North, Hamilton ON
Only a 10-minute walk from West Harbour GO Station!
Lesley and I will be at the reception. Hope to see you there!
FRANCISCA DURAN: RESEARCH GARDEN: A COMPENDIUM OF LOST MOMENTS
CURATED BY: LESLEY LOKSI CHAN
EXHIBITION: OCTOBER 27 - DECEMBER 1, 2023 | OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2023, 7–10
In Francisca Duran: Research garden: a compendium of lost moments, the experimental media artist takes her analog film practice away from the screen and creates a multisensory installation centred on plant-based images. Meticulous and dreamy, the interactive exhibition includes wiry film flower sculptures sprouting from local soil, cascading film test strips on a large light table, hanging digital prints of enlarged film fragments on walls, a collection of optic objects for our viewing pleasure, and in the midst of it all, a 16mm film projector plays on loop her most recent piece, Compendium (2023). Compendium is the original work from which most of the plant-based images in the space are derived. Full of lush shapes and vivid hues, the film loop was handcrafted by Duran using the techniques of phytography and optical printing. Phytograms are created by the exposure of black and white celluloid or photo-paper overlaid with plant material and dried in daylight. With this technique, plants are both the subject of phytograms and also provide the necessary chemistry to produce them. As Duran remarks, “It is part science, part cooking, part magic.”
Read more here.
Honoured to have been selected as a participant in Launchpad Ray Ferris Creative Tech Springboard program!
I am developing VR/AR skills and all participants will be presenting work at Artscape Daniels Launchpad’s Nuit Blanche Exhibition this year!
I will be continuing my work representing the unintended plants growing in urban spaces.
June 24–25
Looking forward to participating in the events of Fast Forward + Rewind: Conversations on place and space in art. This is a hybrid event: in person AND remote attendance.
For more info: http://mujerartista.ca/event/ff-rwd/
Saturday June 25:
10–11:30am
I will be a panelist on the Institution and Access Panel along with Tamara Toledo and Praba Pilar and facilitated by Cecilia Araneda
3pm–4:30pm
I will be facilitating the Community Effect Panel with Tami Miki, Shimby Zegeye-Gebrehiwot and Yolanda Paulsen
A FREE pdf of Cecilia Araneda’s curatorial essay for the retrospective of my work that was presented at WNDX and Video Pool this fall is available to download at:
https://www.ceciliaaraneda.ca/.../FranciDuran...
Thank you Cecilia for the years of support and your beautiful words. Graphic design by Sebastien Aubin.
Retrospective presented in partnership with Harbour Collective, with support from Manitoba Arts Council / Conseil des arts du Manitoba funding. Thank you Manitoba arts council and the peer assessors who supported Harbour Collective; WNDX Festival of Moving Image and Video Pool Media Arts Centre
Film Talks: 15 Conversations on Experimental Cinema; Eds: Simon Payne and Andrew Vallance
I am excited to announce that Film Talks: 15 Conversations on Experimental Cinema has been published!
I was invited to contribute by artist Karel Doing who created (and taught me) the phytogram process at Phil Hoffman’s Independent Imaging Retreat.
Order your copy soon from the BFI Bookstore or Lux. Info here: https://www.contactscreenings.co.uk/film-talks
Film Talks: 15 Conversations on Experimental Cinema
A new book published by Contact
Edited by Andrew Vallance and Simon Payne. 320 pages. Fully illustrated in colour. With a foreword, 'Speaking Of', by Jonathan Walley.
“Film Talks is an edited collection of unique conversations on experimental cinema from a range of eminent and emerging film and video makers. The book represents a contemporary snapshot on the ways in which experimental cinema is perceived by its practitioners, often in relation to other art forms, moving image culture at large and wider social issues. It is an invaluable guide for those keen to immerse themselves in the insights and perspectives that only artists can offer.”
Saturday, Oct 9 at 7 PM – Winnipeg Cinematheque
In Departure’s Wake curated by Cecilia Araneda at WNDX and in partnership with the Harbour Collective and Video Pool
Hope to see you IN PERSON on Saturday October 9 at 7pm at the at at the poolside gallery at Video Pool for Departure Ephemera.