Everything Mira

Some of Mira’s charcoal work

Mira Malatestinic — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:27:58 +0000

Mira Malatestinic — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:47:06 +0000

BALLROOM 584

BALLGOWN 584

248 PIN PROJECT

‎77 VANCOUVER ARTISTS

STUDIO 101

77 Vancouver Artists

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SEPT MIRA – RIVER OF CROWS

Mira Malatestinic — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 23:20:49 +0000

It is with utmost pleasure that I present the projection River Of Crows this month as the Artistic Coordination of this wonderful public art piece is a dear friend of mine, Richard Tetrault.

Richard has been instrumental in creating and working with community works for years. Vancouver is very lucky to have such an awesome Artist in our midst. Richard and I have worked together as fellow Board members for the Eastside Culture Crawl and have developed and implemented the Studio 101 Art Education program.

I have also travelled to Mexico and Cuba with Richard and the La Raza Art team where they have created other murals and art installations of “the North”. Hope some of you will be able to walk by the window tomorrow to share in the projection relating to RIVER OF CROWS. I’m sure the team involved with this community public art project feel as proud of the work as I am being able to share it with you all!

http://youtu.be/iGjQMAZ4FBw

AUGUST MIRA – CAROLE ITTER

Mira Malatestinic — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 23:10:12 +0000

I recommend that you watch it a few times so you can appreciate the work of the wonderful artist CAROLE ITTER.

This interview of Carole with Lorna Brown is a real slice of Vancouver Art in the 60’s. Carole’s open dialogue with Lorna gives the viewer and listener a real sense of what was happening in Vancouver’s art scene.

http://vancouverartinthesixties.com/interviews/carol-itter

JUNE MIRA – AL NEIL TRIO 1964

Mira Malatestinic — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:53:35 +0000

Last month the work focused on contemporary dance and sculpture, it’s easy to see how influences travel thru the decades. This month we look back to the 1964 play between music and visual art!!

I may not be in Vancouver physically but through the power of projection I bring you this month’s MIRA featuring AL NEIL!! enjoy….!

http://youtu.be/s4TWhYDGJuQ

Deeply Personal Marc Chagall Sketchbook

Mira Malatestinic — Tue, 17 May 2011 08:40:19 +0000

How amazing would it be to look at these 85 pages of unpublished drawings that belonged to Bella Chagall, let alone own them? If only I had a spare $600/900,000 on hand I’d snap up this sketchbook before you could blink an eye.

However, it wouldn’t be possible until June 17th when it goes up for auction at Sotheby’s in New York. Apparently, some of Chagall’s most iconic imagery rests on the pages of this sketchbook — the master of color. I’ve always said Chagall’s work is about Love.

As a Magician of color he captures subtle and intense emotions through his equally subtle and intense palate. I so hope this sketchbook ends up in the hands of a respectful romantic who will honor the work for the deeply personal body it is…………. unfortunately, I don’t have that extra $600/900,000 on hand.

MAY MIRA – DANCE & SCULPTURE

Mira Malatestinic — Mon, 16 May 2011 06:15:59 +0000

This month the projection focuses on Dance and Sculpture:

The innovative Flemish Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s has teamed up with sculptor Anthony Gormley for his latest piece Babel (words).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEnT96dlkLM (worth watching this explanation of the work)

the projection itself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77A7c2tsTlk

May Mira

Mira Malatestinic — Mon, 16 May 2011 00:22:28 +0000

This month, being the month of Mother’s (who are women), we will be celebrating women. I have the good fortune of living in a neighbourhood that is FILLED with creativity and Artists. For the MIRA this month I asked women from my “hood” within a 3 block radius to provide me with work that was hung in the Salon space and complimented the projections of 2 Emily Carr Foundation students.

The Students each did a projection so I suggest you follow the careers of:

Vanessa Brown – One and the Many……. (film loop from old clips)

Michelle Root — Road trip ……. (sound and travel an abstract journey)

I can mind the time…- MIRA APRIL

Mira Malatestinic — Sun, 15 May 2011 07:33:08 +0000

“I can mind the time…” with Tom and William Coady (Blacksmiths) Produced by the Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1985

At a time when a glass of rum cost $0.05 and apprentices were bound to their trade for four years at $1.50 per 60 hour work week and a 9PM curfew, Tom Coady went to work for his father, a blacksmith in St. John’s, Newfoundland. In 1920 Tom’s 13 year old son William joinedthe family business and for the next 50 years the two of them worked side by side, day after day, in the dark and sooty recesses of Coady’s Forge, a 25’ X 25’ leaning shack which was torn down in the late 1960’s to make way for the new St. John’s City Hall.

This film traces 100 years of Newfoundland history. From the time when sail powered schooners filled the finger piers along the waterfront, the devastating fire in 1892 that leveled the City, through WW1, the great depression, WW2, the end of British Colonial rule and the start of Confederation, and the growing popularity of the automobile which devastated the blacksmith industry, the film explores life in St. John’s in the context of the role of the blacksmith in society.

http://collections.mun.ca/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/extension&CISOPTR=54&CISOBOX=1&REC=2