Bio
CLIVE HOLDEN is a Canadian artist who makes cinema, literary, and web-based projects. Born and raised on Vancouver Island, he splits his time between there and Toronto. His wife is the novelist Alissa York.
Clive's films and videos have been exhibited at: Images Festival in Toronto, the Toronto International Film Festival, the Antimatter Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, transmediale in Berlin, the London International Film Festival, the Foreman Art Gallery of Bishops University, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, CPH:DOX Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival (winner of the New Vision Award), Stephen Bulger Gallery/Camera, Send + Receive - a Festival of Sound, the European Media Art Festival, Anthology Film Archives in New York, Kino Arsenal in Berlin, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the 50th Annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar (Closing Film).
His multimedia artist's talks and performances have been presented at: the Danish Film Institute in Copenhagen, the Holland Festival in Amsterdam, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Kino Arsenal in Berlin, aceartinc. artist run centre in Winnipeg, the Deutsch-Amerikanische Institut in Heidelberg, the Durham Art Gallery, Send + Receive - a Festival of Sound, the Royal Danish Academy of Art, and the University of Manitoba School of Architecture's Lecture Series.
He's published two books of prose fiction and poetry, essays, and two CDs of poetry and music.
Details
Filmography + Exhibition History
UTOPIA SUITE project (2006 +)
A multi-year, multidisciplinary art project launched in 2006 at Images Festival in Toronto, and again at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam as a co-presentation with the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The launch events included an interactive lecture and 'live cinema' screenings.
UTOPIA SUITE'S central theme is utopianism as process and movement – its core conceit is that movement begets hope which begets movement, creating positive cycles, and it features a series of cinematic movement studies, each with accompanying texts, photobooklets and web-based components. The growing culture of the project is an example of a defined utopian space in time, meaning, and community.
TRAINS OF WINNIPEG project (2001 - 2006)
A six year multidisciplinary art project, including:
• Trains of Winnipeg – 14 Film Poems (35mm/DVD, 89 minutes, 2004), a feature-length film cycle that has been screened and exhibited around the world at film, media art, sound art and literary festivals, venues and galleries.
• Trains of Winnipeg – Poems + Music (audio CD, 2001, Cyclops Press/Endearing Records), a collaboration with musicians Christine Fellows, and Jason Tait and John K. Samson of The Weakerthans. It received ‘heavy rotation’ at college and community radio stations across North America, reaching top ten for several weeks in Toronto and Vancouver, and number one in Winnipeg. It was also reviewed across Canada, the U.S., as well as in Italy, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Australia and Greece, appearing on several critics ‘top ten for 2001’ lists.
• Trains of Winnipeg - Poems (book, 2002, DC Books), a collection of poetry short-listed for three Manitoba Book Awards, including the McNally Robinson Book of the Year, and the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book of the Year.
• www.trainsofwinnipeg.com, which acts as a multimedia electronic hub for the project, received over 350,000 hits annually.
The final phase of this project included a series of artist lectures + screenings in Canada, Germany and Denmark in the summer of 2006.
(Collected project reviews and response.)
FURY (1997)
Novella, short stories, graphic poetry, film stills, and flip book animations (reviews).
CYCLOPS REVIEW 02 (2002)
Literary anthology + an on-line 'Extended Edition' featuring a wide variety of multimedia literary experiments.
CYCLOPS PRESS (1993 +)
New media, multimedia micro-publishing, film production, web-based art, websites for artists.
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CONTACTS:
Stephen Bulger Gallery
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
mail@cliveholden.com