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BACK/FLASH
October 25 - December 21, 2003
Curator: Dana Claxton. Back/Flash is an examination of Aboriginal
and Inuit media art ranging from early video production to seminal
video installation, virtual reality, cyber art, digital works and
single channel video. The intent of Back/Flash is to map and
record this vital contribution to art history and group together
works that have contributed to media art discourses. These works
are from a First Peoples perspective and exhibit the interior of
Aboriginal, Inuit and Métis cultural practices and worldviews.
These works challenge, enlighten, accuse and entertain
interpretations of history, colonialism, and "Indian Art".
Forest Walk
August 18 - October 12, 2003
Janet Cardiff's Forest Walk is a sixteen-minute audio-guided tour
through a forest at The Banff Centre. Recorded with binaural
sound, the audio captures the sound of the artist's voice, and of
her body moving through the forest. The voice gives directions,
while pointing out flowers, trees and people passing, sometimes
telling stories and sharing thoughts.
Reading History
Backwards
August 8 - October 12, 2003
In this exhibition, Montreal artist Gisele Amantea presents a
recent work, "The King v. Picariello and Lassandro." The
installation explores how historical narratives are very much
dependent upon subjective impressions, assumptions, and
stereotypes. In a series of 14 large collaged drawings and
photographs, Amantea investigates the life of Filumena "Florence"
Lassandro, an Italian immigrant to southern Alberta who, convicted
of murder, was one of the last women hanged in Canada.
Curator: Anthony Kiendl
Paradise
Institute
May 3
- July 20, 2003
Presented by the Walter Phillips
Gallery with Plug
In ICA at the 2001 Venice Biennale, Janet Cardiff and George
Bures Miller’s The Paradise Institute creates a new
artistic format located between disciplines; a hybrid genre
borrowing from installation, video projection, audio, sculpture
and performance, where the artists effectively function as movie
directors, screenwriters, composers, and radio play producers. This installation by Lethbridge artists Cardiff and Miller won
"La Biennale di Venezia Special Award." The Prize was
bestowed for "involving the audience in a new cinematic experience
where fiction and reality, technology and the body converge into
multiple and shifting journeys through space and time."
Curator: Wayne Baerwaldt
Circulated by Plug In ICA
Super Modern
World of Beauty
February 22 - April
19, 2003
Super Modern World of Beauty
features work by Robin Arseneault (Calgary), Daniel Barrow
(Winnipeg), Shary Boyle (Toronto/Winnipeg), Elizabeth LeMoine
(London, UK), Naomi London (Montreal), and Emily Vey Duke and
Cooper Battersby (Chicago). Working in a variety of media
including, performance, drawing, video, installation, digitally
animated film and soft sculpture, these artists' works resonate
with what Russian poet Sergei Gandlevsky termed "critical
sentimentalism." These artists revisit beauty through their
examination of desire, empathy, love, romance,
nostalgia and pain.
Curator: Diana Sherlock
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