Neutral Ground Gallery / Film Pool

This was a class field trip to local areas in Regina. The first stop was the Neutral Ground Gallery. The first thing that struck me was the way to get into the gallery. A large staircase then a long hallway with extremely creaky boards. It reminded me of a old cabin. Once inside the Neutral Ground Gallery the atmosphere felt like a gallery. The lighting and vast white walls all contributed to this feeling. The pieces within the gallery were mainly sculptor. All three pieces used wood for structor. They all dealt with life. Two of them reminding me of ca coons. The other almost looked like a birds nest. This trip to the gallery can relate to intermedia because it combines more than one form of art. The act of a group of people all traveling together to an art gallery changes the mood and can almost be part of a performance. Also with the artist there talking about her pieces it also had a performance feel to it. The act of getting there and listening is the intermedia side to the Neutral Ground Gallery.

The trip to the Film Pool felt like more of an informative trip. Again like the Neutral Ground Gallery to get into the Film Pool you had to climb a large number of stairs. When officially inside the Film Pool it was a lot more modern feeling then the Neutral Ground Gallery. We got a tour of the facility and all the equipment that the Film Pool had to offer. After the tour of the facilities we were taken down to a room where there was an artist in residency. She was a puppeteer and worked on Nightmare Before Christmas. This part of the tour was my favor. It is interesting to see how things are made that people take for granite on the T.V screen. Again if there was a way to connect this trip to intermedia it would be the act of taking the tour as a performance.