April 1 – 30, 2005 / Tania Sures, “Mirror (i’ve missed you and i’ve been meaning to show you the tape from that day at the beach last summer)”
Fourth exhibition in the Performing Video series.

A young woman addresses a missing person, reminiscing while watching video footage taken one summer day at the beach. “Why haven’t you written? You know… you know I’ve missed you. I’ve been missing you for awhile,” she says, drawing the viewer into a tangled narrative revolving around desire. She pleads with the viewer to remember the day at the beach, but of course, the viewer can’t remember. She does—and she wants the viewer to remember it her way.

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In 312 Online:
April 1 – 30, 2005 / Melanie Jones, “mmm...”.

A tongue explores the edge of a drain from the inside…

“I am interested in creating strange and visceral moments that draw on both disgust and humor. Using close-ups and framing I try to isolate the moment from its normal context. My video work draws on my broader interest in the body and its characteristics as a space. Making connections between the interior and exterior of the body as well as between the body and other objects, I make the familiar unfamiliar, drawing on ideas of the uncanny and the abject.”— Melanie Jones

Melanie Jones is an emerging artist in Canada working in sculpture, installation and video. Originally from Vancouver, she is currently completing her MFA at the University of Windsor. This past summer she participated in an exhibition in New York and is a recipient of the SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship. She has recently screened work at the Video Cabaret in Windsor, ON