We are very excited to present a film screening and artist talk by Mark Neufeld as part of extended programming to our current two-person exhibit featuring Mark Neufeld and Julie Oh. The title of the exhibit is "Icecreampowerpinkyswearlater?"

 

Join us on February 5th at 7 PM for the film screening of 'Workers Entering a Factory' (2018), followed by an artist talk and Q&A by Mark Neufeld. This is an offsite event and will take place at Videopool's Output space on the second floor of the Artspace building: 221 – 100 ARTHUR ST.

 

The film is set in a former textile factory in Winnipeg’s north end, which later became a hub for several artists' studios in the city, including Neufeld’s. The factory, which was about the size of a city block, infamously burned down to ashes a year after this film was shot there. In this way, the film, through its own idiosyncratic means, preserves some trace of the storied space.

 

Through this work, the artist reflects on the social and economic contexts of the factory as a former site of mass production, which then became re-purposed as a cultural site for members of the city’s “creative class.”