Sandee Moore

Sandee Moore, Director, Video Pool

Introduction | Sandee Moore - Yutopia | Yoshinori Niwa – Kite Flying with Local People | About the Artists | About the Guest Curator | Curator’s Note | About Gendai Gallery | Contacts
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Sandee Moore - Yutopia
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Gendai Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition guest-curated by Milena Placentile that brings together Winnipeg-based artist Sandee Moore and Tokyo-based artist Yoshinori Niwa in an imaginative and participatory exploration of traditional Japanese cultural activities.
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The artists featured in this exhibition, Sandee Moore and Yoshinori Niwa, will transpose popular traditional and modern Japanese cultural activities such as sento (traditional bathhouses) and kite-flying, into new contexts in order to explore notions of interpersonal exchange and community, memory and imagination, and the passage of ideas over time.
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Sandee Moore - Yutopia

A warm, personal spirit characterizes Moore's artworks. Many of her projects are service-oriented and she is especially interested in framing interactive experiences as a way to help build and strengthen interpersonal relationships. A recurring theme in her work concerns the complex nature of interpersonal communication and the barriers that challenge opportunities for closeness.

While researching traditional bathhouses in Eastern Tokyo is 2004, Moore was charmed by the name of one bathhouse in particular, "Yutopia". This clever turn of phrase relates the pleasure of the hot bath water (yuu) to the perfect place (utopia). First developed during her artist residency at Tokyo's Mukojima Rice+, Moore's newly conceived online Yutopia is a synthesis of Japanese bathhouses and simulates the unique model for social interaction that takes place within them. Moore describes bathhouses as a form of "heterotopia", that is, a culturally definable space that is unlike any other, yet acts as microcosm in that it reflects larger cultural patterns and social orders.
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Sandee Moore

Sandee Moore proposes to animate social relationships through personal exchange via artwork in media such as performance, video, installation, and interactive electronic sculpture. Since graduating from the MFA program at the University of Regina in 2003, Moore has screened and exhibited across Canada at venues including the Edmonton Art Gallery (now the Art Gallery of Alberta), The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Images Film and Video Festival, Blackwood Gallery, Dalhousie Art Gallery, and Mendel Art Gallery. Her practice has also taken her to Japan, where she was the 2004 Mukojima/Rice+ artist-in-residence. She was recently commissioned to create a video for the Winnipeg Art Gallery, stills of which were featured in the art pages of issue 100 of Border Crossings magazine. She recently stepped down from her four-year term as Director of Video Pool Media Arts Centre in Winnipeg in order to pursue her art practice on a full-time basis.

Sandee Moore - Yutopia
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Gendai Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition guest-curated by Milena Placentile that brings together Winnipeg-based artist Sandee Moore and Tokyo-based artist Yoshinori Niwa in an imaginative and participatory exploration of traditional Japanese cultural activities.
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The artists featured in this exhibition, Sandee Moore and Yoshinori Niwa, will transpose popular traditional and modern Japanese cultural activities such as sento (traditional bathhouses) and kite-flying, into new contexts in order to explore notions of interpersonal exchange and community, memory and imagination, and the passage of ideas over time.
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Sandee Moore - Yutopia

A warm, personal spirit characterizes Moore's artworks. Many of her projects are service-oriented and she is especially interested in framing interactive experiences as a way to help build and strengthen interpersonal relationships. A recurring theme in her work concerns the complex nature of interpersonal communication and the barriers that challenge opportunities for closeness.

While researching traditional bathhouses in Eastern Tokyo is 2004, Moore was charmed by the name of one bathhouse in particular, "Yutopia". This clever turn of phrase relates the pleasure of the hot bath water (yuu) to the perfect place (utopia). First developed during her artist residency at Tokyo's Mukojima Rice+, Moore's newly conceived online Yutopia is a synthesis of Japanese bathhouses and simulates the unique model for social interaction that takes place within them. Moore describes bathhouses as a form of "heterotopia", that is, a culturally definable space that is unlike any other, yet acts as microcosm in that it reflects larger cultural patterns and social orders.
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Sandee Moore

Sandee Moore proposes to animate social relationships through personal exchange via artwork in media such as performance, video, installation, and interactive electronic sculpture. Since graduating from the MFA program at the University of Regina in 2003, Moore has screened and exhibited across Canada at venues including the Edmonton Art Gallery (now the Art Gallery of Alberta), The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Images Film and Video Festival, Blackwood Gallery, Dalhousie Art Gallery, and Mendel Art Gallery. Her practice has also taken her to Japan, where she was the 2004 Mukojima/Rice+ artist-in-residence. She was recently commissioned to create a video for the Winnipeg Art Gallery, stills of which were featured in the art pages of issue 100 of Border Crossings magazine. She recently stepped down from her four-year term as Director of Video Pool Media Arts Centre in Winnipeg in order to pursue her art practice on a full-time basis.

Sandee Moore, Director, Video Pool

Sandee Moore

Sandee Moore is an artist with an impressive national exhibition record and an up-and-coming arts administrator.She has consistently demonstrated a commitment to the nonprofit arts sector, sitting on Neutral Ground Artist-run Centre's (Regina) Board of Directors (2000 - 2002), Video Pool Media Arts Centre's Board of Directors (2003 - 2005) and contributing her expertise to various programming committees and juries.Pursuing collegial relationships and contributing to advocacy through active membership in professional associations, such as the College Art Association, the Independent Media Arts Association and the Manitoba Visual Arts Association, are also important forms of public service for Sandee.Sandee completed her Master of Fine Arts in 2002 and is currently working towards her Arts and Cultural Management Certificate.She has been employed as the Director of Video Pool Media Arts Centre since July 2005 and continues to exhibit her work widely.Sandee's art practice includes a variety of media, from bookworks to interactive electronic media.Her intention is to propose pleasure and empowerment through inviting her audience to participate in systems of exchange and aesthetic activity.She views performance as an opportunity to involve people in artworks, rather than to entertain.