FACETIME CALL TOMORROW with Kate Henderson
Research and Brainstorming Boundaries
Capture is pleased to partner with Magenta Foundation, Canada’s pioneering charitable arts publishing
house based in Toronto and the founder of the Flash Forward Incubator, to present
the second edition of the Incubator in British Columbia.
Presenting a new model for arts education and support in Canada, the Flash Forward Incubator
Program both proposes a new exciting model for arts education and prepares emerging
artists for their transition out of high school.
Incubator gives students
opportunity to engage with critical and contemporary art ideas and methodologies they may not
be working with in their art classes. Developed in collaboration with industry professionals and
educators, the program integrates independent and interactive instructional methods, both
online and in-person, and offers diverse opportunities to give and receive feedback from other
students, teachers, and Magenta and Capture’s education team.
In addition to an education experience, the Incubator offers students a signature piece for their
portfolios; a publication, produced by Magenta; an exhibition/silent auction, held during
Capture; participation in a citywide festival; and a feature in the Capture Magazine. All money
raised at the auction goes back into the schools’ art programs!
For more information on the Flash Forward Incubator program, visit:
www.magentafoundation.org/flash-forward-incubator/
For more information on the Capture Photography Festival,
FLASH FORWARD INCUBATOR PROGRAM - Theme
Boundaries
The theme for this year’s Flash Forward Incubator Program is ‘Boundaries’. It asks
participants to think deeply about the role and meaning they play in our world today.
Boundaries, real or imagined, are lines or borders which demark the edge or limit of
something, as well as the potential of an unknown beyond them. They are socio-political
constructs and physical objects which help us frame our movement, actions and
understanding, as well as our perceptions of behaviour, knowledge and justice; be they
visual, physical, psychological, personal, geographic and economic. They can also be
constraints, but within that constraint, lead to greater freedoms when the larger whole is
taken into consideration.
How do we navigate these boundaries, what impact do they have on our choices and our
freedoms? What are our personal boundaries? Are there limits to what we can say, do,
think or believe? Do we have limits to where we can freely move in terms of geography,
class, gender, or politics? Who creates and controls those boundaries? Are they fixed or
flexible? How have they changed over time, and how do we navigate those changes? Do we
impose our own boundaries on ourselves and others, or are they set by something else?
Are more boundaries needed?
What are the boundaries created when making art? Are they in the framing of the image,
the colours and lines, material or content choices? Are they in the relationship between the
public and the private, or between the subject and the artist? How have boundaries
impacted the artists before us? Can we see the impact of those boundaries in their content,
in their choices of materials, or in the physical manifestation of their work? How do
boundaries influence our capacity and freedom to select?
This year’s Flash Forward Incubator Program is open to a wide range of
photography-based projects which explore the ideas and actualities of ‘Boundaries’. We are
looking for projects which examine the role that they have played in the history of art;
censorship, mediocrity, and innovation.
