Radiant Nights

Wayne Elliott, Lester Alfonso, and Brian Wagner

Mar 4 2010 - Mar 6 2010

Radiant Nights
A Visual Performance Series featuring artists Brian Wagner, Wayne
Elliott, and Lester Alfonso on three consecutive nights at Artspace.

Thursday Mar. 4, 2010
8pm screening: short films
9pm Dance with Light hosted by Brian Wagner
Evolving from workshops with local dancers and other artists, Dance
with Light is an engagement with projections: it is free-form,
collective, and improvisational.

Friday, Mar. 5, 2010
8pm screening: short films
9pm The Screen hosted by Wayne Elliott
Collaborating with sound and projection artists, dancers and actors,
The Screen will explore the multi-layered membrane between our
genders.

Saturday, Mar. 6, 2010
8pm screening: short films
9pm Chapter Nowhere hosted by Lester Alfonso
Chapter Nowhere is a live cinema performance of a personal narrative.
Working in a randomized free-flow manner, Lester Alfonso puts it
together on-the-fly in front of the audience. This is audio/visual
presentation that mimics conversational storytelling and lands
somewhere between chaos and order, fact and fiction, live and
playback.
10pm - 2am CLOSING NIGHT PARTY

VJs
VJ Guy - Scott Guy (Toronto)
G-May VJ / sunny (youngest VJs in Canada)
Dance with Light (open jam)
Bill Kimball (liquid light)
and special guests

DJs
Illeagle
Sabotage
Fever
Gnosys

screening shorts:
Kanehsatake (6 min.)
Emperor's New Groove (5 min.)
Mandala (3:40 min.)
Cell Phone Seen (20 min.)
RAF IV (5:30 min.)
Mercury Winged Messenger (4 min.)
Atom of All Suns (10 min.)
Oya Dreams (10 min.)
Metamorphosis (10 min.)
Evolver (7min.)
budabed (3 min.)

Artist Bio:

Brian Wagner is unwilling or unable to concentrate or specialize in
any one or two media. His sprawling collage will not fit into any tidy
category or apartment. He's been a practicing artist for over twenty
years.

Wayne Elliott finds inspiration in symbology as the spring board for
almost all his explorations. He started off as a visual artist but has
evolved his practice to include performance and digital based media.

Lester Alfonso is a filmmaker, writer, and video artist whose work has
been exhibited in film festivals, art galleries, and broadcast on
television. Made in collaboration with CBC Newsworld, his newest film,
TWELVE, won the National Film Board of Canada's REEL DIVERSITY
contest.

Lester Alfonso would like to thank Public Energy and the Ontario Arts
Council for their support in the development of Chapter Nowhere.