Deluge Contemporary Art

09/04/2026

Please join us tonight at 7pm for the opening of Christine Walde’s Libris, an exhibition that considers the library not only as a physical space, but as a conceptual structure through which knowledge is organized, withheld, preserved and imagined.

"As the namesake title for the overall exhibition, Libris is a body of work that uses hand-cut and digital collage, photomontage, and found imagery drawn from libraries, starfields, and geological specimens to explore the relationships between knowledge, memory, and deep time.

Through the juxtaposition of libraries, starfields, and stone, the work reimagines knowledge not as a fixed archive but as an evolving constellation of connections, extending across history, memory, and the vast temporal scales of the earth and cosmos." CW

636 Yates Street In Victoria, Canada

09/02/2026

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Steven Ross Smith | Christine Walde | Matt Law
Thursday, September 10 @ 7pm

Provisional poetries, language operations, poetics of project/process/works in progress. A seasonal reading series where poets share and discuss a section of an active body of writing with listener inquiries encouraged.

Steven Ross Smith’s work appears in over one hundred publications and fourteen books, including his seven-book “fluttertongue” poetic series. As SloLo Smithy he’s creating a performative LP with musical collaborators, featured on BandCamp. Smith creates in the region of the Songhees peoples, Victoria, BC. At fluttertongue.ca, bandcamp.com or [email protected].

Christine Walde is a poet, artist and librarian whose work combines library and archival research with interests in experimental prose, poetry, visual poetry, performance and visual arts. Walde lives and works on Lekwungen Territory in the Cascadia Bioregion of the Pacific Northwest.

Matt Law Is a poet, speech-language pathologist, editor/publisher of popular abattoir r***e and co-founder of rain shadow poetics lab, based in Stz’uminus territory, on Vancouver island. Matt’s writing has appeared in Long Con Magazine, And Magazine, Esse arts + opinions and has been performed at Expozine Montreal, Antimatter [media art] and Pacific Cinematheque. Several recent poems appear in the Semolina Pilchard podcast.

08/30/2026

Call for Submissions
Little Skies: Moving Image Art for Youth

November 7 & 8, 2026
Deluge Contemporary Art
636 Yates St, Victoria BC Canada

Children possess the openness, imagination and unbounded nature to optimally engage with experimental film and video, or artist’s moving image work. With Little Skies we aim to bring them together. The inaugural event will be held this November 7 and 8 in Victoria and online. Little Skies will feature programs of works lovingly selected for a young audience and screened in a friendly, comfortable environment, as well as a hands-on workshop and other activities.

Produced by the team behind the acclaimed Antimatter [media art] festival, Little Skies will introduce a new and critically formative audience to this expansive and dynamic art form to the benefit of both.

We are looking for moving image works for inclusion in the first iteration, suitable for children and youth, roughly kindergarten to pr***en. Works should not be longer than 10 minutes, produced in the past decade. Works to be included will be confirmed by October 2, 2026. Screening fees paid.

Submit via FilmFreeway. Deadline September 18, 2026.
filmfreeway.com/LittleSkies-MovingImageArtforYouth

08/28/2026

08/24/2026

Plaza: moving image art in public space
Vol 2: Sept - Nov, 2026

Anivides, Dave Rodriguez, Kate Solar

diario de verano [summer diary]
Anivides (Francisca Duran, Cristal Buemi), 5 minutes (Can)

Picture a Forest
Dave Rodriguez, 4 minutes (USA)

(for once I dreamed of you)
Kate Solar, 6 minutes (Can)

Deluge curates an ongoing, quarterly series of artists' moving image works for the outdoor community screen at the southwest corner of Oak Bay Ave and Davie St in Victoria. Presented in conjunction with LIVERY Victoria, Plaza can be viewed from the street, sidewalk and dedicated benches onsite (which also house a sound sculpture by Canadian composer Christopher Butterfield installed beside a large-scale sculpture by Daniel Laskarin). The second volume of Plaza has a running time of approximately 15 minutes and can be experienced late afternoons/evenings from 4pm to 8pm, Wednesday through Sunday, beginning September 2.

08/05/2026

SAVE THE DATE!
Opening on Friday, September 4th, 2026 at Deluge Contemporary Art
Libris, Christine Walde

Christine Walde’s first solo exhibition, Libris, explores the library as a site of collection, power, resistance and possibility. Working across digital collage, photo‑montage, painting, sculpture, printed matter, ephemera and artists’ books.

Christine A. Walde is an interdisciplinary artist, poet and librarian whose practice combines archival and library science with research in artists’ books and multiples, experimental prose, poetry, visual poetry, performance, book arts and the visual arts. Her scholarly and creative writing has been published in print and online journals in Canada, USA, UK and Germany. Her artistic works are held in the public collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Banff Centre, University of British Columbia, University of Victoria, University of Buffalo and Philadelphia Museum of Art. Walde is the Fine Arts Librarian at University of Victoria Libraries and Art Collections and a guest on the traditional territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən in the Cascadia bioregion of the Pacific Northwest..

08/01/2026

Last Month!

Plaza
moving image art in public space
Vol 1: JUne – Aug 2026
Sasha Opeiko | Leonardo Pirondi | Gina Hara

An ongoing, quarterly series of artists' moving image works for the outdoor community screen at the southwest corner of Oak Bay Ave and Davie St in Victoria.

Artist Spotlight: Gina Hara

Sidings of the Afternoon
2021 | CANADA | 5 MIN

“Each age demands its own form.” – Hannes Meyer

Inspired by Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon, light works by Lászlo Moholy-Nagy and Bauhaus urban design. Follow my train of thought, my shifting perception of the space around me, my fleeting relationships with nature and my urban cell. Seasons passing by while I stare at the same three objects in my house. What is outside, what will we find when we emerge? How will we move on when our toxic relationship with a virus that paralyzed our urban bodies ends? Scathed or unscathed? Dreams, algae, shadows, flowers and knives.

Gina Hara is a Canadian-Hungarian filmmaker and artist. She holds an MA in intermedia, an MFA in film production and had worked in different media with regard to film, video, new media, gaming and design. Her research focuses on marginalized narratives in the context of technology, specifically social media and games culture. Hara’s art works have been featured by different institutions including New Museum in New York, Budapest Kunsthalle and the City of Montreal. Waning (2011), her first fiction film, was nominated for Best Canadian Short at Toronto International Film Festival. Your Place or Minecraft? (2016) is her machinima docu web series about game studies and is available on YouTube. Hara’s feature length documentary, Geek Girls (2017), explores nerd culture from women’s perspective and was in theatres in Canada and Australia in 2018. Geek Girls is currently available on the website of the National Film Board of Canada, while it is distributed by Women Make Movies in the USA and South America. Hara’s most recent work, Sidings of the Afternoon won the Critics’ Choice Award at Milan Machinima Film Festival 2021. Hara lives in Montreal, where she is the creative director of the Technoculture, Art and Games Research Centre.

07/25/2026

CALL FOR WORKS

Little Skies: Moving Image Art for Youth

November 7 & 8, 2026
Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria BC Canada

Produced by the team behind the acclaimed Antimatter [media art] festival, celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2027.

Submit via FilmFreeway. Deadline September 18, 2026.
http://filmfreeway.com/LittleSkies-MovingImageArtforYouth

07/21/2026

Little Skies: Moving Image Art for Youth
November 7 & 8, 2026
Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria BC Canada

Produced by the team behind the acclaimed Antimatter [media art] festival, celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2027.

We believe that children possess the openness, imagination and unbounded nature to optimally interact with experimental film and video, or artist’s moving image work. With Little Skies we aim to bring them together. The inaugural event will be held this November 7 and 8 in Victoria, Canada and online.
Little Skies will feature programs of works lovingly selected for a young audience and screened in a friendly, comfortable environment, as well as a hands-on workshop and other activities.

Little Skies will introduce a new and critically formative audience to this expansive and dynamic art form to the benefit of both.
We are looking for moving image works for inclusion in the first iteration of Little Skies. They should be suitable for children and youth, roughly kindergarten to pr***en. Works should not be longer than 10 minutes, and should have been produced in the past decade. Works to be included will be confirmed by October 2, 2026. Screening fees paid.

Submit via FilmFreeway. Deadline September 18, 2026.
http://filmfreeway.com/LittleSkies-MovingImageArtforYouth See less

07/15/2026

SAVE THE DATE!
Opening on Friday, September 4th, 2026 at Deluge Contemporary Art
Libris, Christine Walde

Christine Walde’s first solo exhibition, Libris, explores the library as a site of collection, power, resistance and possibility. Working across digital collage, photo‑montage, painting, sculpture, printed matter, ephemera and artists’ books, Walde considers the library not only as a physical space, but as a conceptual structure through which knowledge is organized, withheld, preserved and imagined. Informed by Walde’s experience as an academic librarian, the exhibition reflects on systems that govern how information circulates and accrues value—classification, access, authority. The library appears here as both enabling structure and limit, shaped by histories of religious, colonial and cultural power. Libris situates the artist within these inherited frameworks while pointing toward their instability and uncertain futures.The book—particularly the codex—emerges as a resonant form. Beyond its role as a carrier of text, it functions as a container: holding sequence, pause and silence. Its folds and margins echo the architecture of the library itself, marking spaces where meaning is suspended or withheld. Texts, obsolescent technologies and altered systems of organization disrupt the idea of the library as neutral or complete. Rather than focusing on what is collected, Libris attends to what is absent: the gaps between entries, the distance between understanding and what has yet to be named. The library is reimagined not as a closed archive, but as a site of tension and potential—a collection of collections that opens onto the unknown.