Kandis Friesen - Tape 158: New Documents from the Archives

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Kandis Friesen, "Tape 158: New Documents from the Archives," 2020

Given the recent spike in cases of COVID-19 in our province, we have decided to close the gallery to the public for the time being. It is our hope that we will not have to do so for too long, however, should we have to extend our closure into December, we are considering possible avenues for continuing to share the work of our current exhibiting artist, Jin-me Yoon, with you all. 

As members of this community and citizens of this region, we call on our provincial government to respond to the current health crisis with considerably more care and empathy for those that are vulnerable, in precarious and public-facing employment, and our health care workers, whose calls for action we echo here.

All news related to reopening the gallery to the public or an extended closure will be shared on our social media channels and our newsletter. If you have any questions about our closure, please reach out to TRUCK’s director, Ginger Carlson, at director@truck.ca or 403-261-7702.

In the meantime, we would like to acknowledge and thank all of you who continue to support us by visiting our online programming, EXTENDED INDEFINITELY with Kandis Friesen and Indu Vashist, or by connecting with us over email, donating, and purchasing memberships.

Warmly,

TRUCK Contemporary Art

TRUCK Contemporary Art presents Kandis Friesen's Tape 158: New Documents from the Archives. Working through architectural montage and narrative collage, the installation builds into a shifting archival loop, making new texts through abstract absences and ghostly presence: new documents for the archives. 
The exhibition is anchored in the re-filming of a 1991 archival videotape, found at the Mennonite Heritage Archives in Winnipeg, and filmed in a small village in southeastern Ukraine; returning to the site twenty-five years later, the experimental essay shifts through future-past narrative modes, asking how body, nation, and time are defined within and without us.

Kandis Friesen’s work is anchored in diasporic language, dispersed translations, and disintegrating archival forms. Drawing on Russian Mennonite, Ukrainian, and formerly Soviet geographies, her interdisciplinary compositions build from architectural, material, and spectral inhabitations of exile, amplifying minute and myriad histories at once.

Her work has been exhibited at LUX (London, UK), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, US), VOX (Montréal, CA), Dare-Dare (Montréal, CA), Mural Arts Program (Philadelphia, US), Workers Arts & Heritage Centre (Hamilton, US), and Eastern Edge (St. John's, CA); her videos have been screened at Festival international du film sur l’art (Montréal, CA), Traverse Vidéo (Toulouse, FR), MIX (NYC, US), Athens Digital Arts Festival (Athens, GR), WNDX Festival of Moving Image (Winnipeg, CA), and Jihlava International Film Festival (Jihlava, CZ). She has received several grants and awards, including from the Canada Council for the Arts and the CALQ, the Images Festival Steamwhistle Award (with Nahed Mansour, 2012), Best Canadian Work at WNDX (2018), and the Brucebo Travel Research Grant (2019). She has participated in residencies at the Santa Fe Art Institute (Santa Fe, US), the Québec Residency at The Banff Centre (Banff, CA), MAWA (Winnipeg, Canada), and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha, US). Her films are distributed by Groupe Intervention Vidéo in Montréal.