Sandra Vida: The Crossing Place - Particle + Wave Festival

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Sandra Vida, "The Crossing Place," 2021

video triptych installation

Growing out of a residency in Ireland with Irish performance artists Pauline Cummins and Frances Mezzetti, Sandra Vida's The Crossing Place explores themes of identity, ancestry, and earth-based spirituality. 

During this fruitful time filming, recording, and photographing in the old manor house and grounds on site, I took on two main personae: a Servant Woman in the house, and an Ancestor/Crow Woman who inhabits the area of the walls and gates; as well, with my collaborative partners, created costumes and props and adopted the appearance of strong Spirit Women whose dwelling place is the deep woods. Enacting an implied narrative of exploration and growth, these characters intersect, influence each other, and enable self-discovery and finally decisive action in The Crossing Place between worlds. 

Over my 3-decade art career, mainly based in Calgary, I have embraced a time-based, multi-disciplinary approach that explores innovative combinations of media. Ongoing interests include spiritual exploration, psychological concepts and poetic text. I enjoy working with concepts that carry a wide range of associations and layers of meaning. The space created by art is a versatile and evocative arena where time and space can be bent and shaped. While social issues often form a backdrop, I emphasize the inter-weaving of the personal and the social. Framing concepts for this piece include Carl Jung’s writings on dreams and the collective unconscious, and Rupert Sheldrake’s ideas on morphic resonance, as well as recent works by feminist writers like Clarissa Pinkole Estes and Jean Shinoda Bolen.

Join us at the 2022 Particle + Wave Reception at EMMEDIA on March 25th from 6pm-10pm. 

Come and check out the opening of our media arts exhibition as well as one-night-only projections in collaboration with Quickdraw Animation Society.

Plus, CoViz_2021: A fun interactive artwork by Tyler Longmire !

Doors open at 6pm - Projections start at 8pm!

This is a free event.

The 2022 Particle + Wave Festival Exhibition will last from March 25th-April 29th at EMMEDIA Gallery and TRUCK Contemporary Art Gallery, if you can't make it for the opening you have all month to check it out!