January 10 - 31, 2005 / Aaron Schmidt, "Untitled"
312’s inaugural exhibition, the first in the Performing Video series.

Two men struggle with one another in a nondescript room, an endless fight trapped in a video loop.

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In 312 Online:
January 10 - 31, 2005 / Miriam Jordan & Julian Haladyn, "Surveillance Tea Ceremony"
Part of the Performing Video series.

A tea ceremony takes place in the front entrance of an apartment building.

"We create spaces, both physical and inferred, through sculpture, installation and video that function as vehicles for the performance, in which the experience of the viewers IS the artwork. This video is the direct footage off the Surveillance camera — faults and all — capturing the setting up of the teahouse, the ceremony, and finally the dismantling of the installation; everything is then left as if no event transpired. Questions of Surveillance technology and the domestic sphere, as the setting is admittedly our residence, come to inform the experience of the video as a trace of experience." — M. Jordan & J. Haladyn

Miriam Jordan & Julian Haladyn are interdisciplinary artists living in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. Miriam graduated with distinction in 2002 with her Honours BA in Visual Arts from the University of Western Ontario. Julian graduated with distinction in 2002 with his Honours BFA from the University of Western Ontario. Miriam and Julian are both presently pursuing a MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College in Vermont, USA. Both Miriam and Julian have exhibited internationally.

January 20, 2005
An Open House for the opening of 312 and its first exhibition, Aaron Schmidt's "Untitled". 6 - 9 PM. Come by and check out the video.