- July 16, 1996 to August 3, 1996
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This exhibition traces the various strategies Laiwan has chosen over the years (from 1982 to present) in her investigation of categorized identity. These works don't posit right/wrong, us/them dichotomies, nor do they get washed away in liberal post-modern ambiguities. Using language as a primary source of engagement, Laiwan draws the viewer into a position that only self examination of our own "uniqueness" and sense of moral responsibility can complete. With just ourselves to consider, these art works become powerful reminders of the limits of our constructed perceptions.
By Laiwan
date | 19 Programs
Dates 1996- May 29, 1996
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The artist religious leaders who are participating in this exhibition of sacrificial art (sacrificial in the sense of gift or offering) are the new wave of human beings who are discovering their own truths. They are not hanging back and waiting for the cogitations and directives of official functionaries.
By Robert Brown
Summer Cum Laude
- November 12, 1996 to November 30, 1996
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No description available
By Fiona Bowie - Curated by Glenn Alteen
Swell
- April 13, 1996
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No description available
By Lyndell Montgomery, Zoe Eakle - Curated by Glenn Alteen
Taste This: The Beggars Feast
- April 18, 1996
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A collaboration of photography and performance documenting a journey of transformation through gender and the shadow. Photography, through darkroom manipulation of multiple images incorporated into a single photograph illustrating the journey with 8 to 10 images printed with liquid light on large format fibre-based paper. Performance, to tell the story through a combination of music-partly pre-recorded and composed by the author and two additional musicians as well as through spoken word, teatre and movement.
By Rosamond Norbury, Star Maris - Curated by Glenn Alteen
The Last Sunrise
- June 4, 1996 to July 6, 1996
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No description available
By Pia Massie - Curated by Glenn Alteen
The Mattering Map Project
- September 17, 1996 to October 5, 1996
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Johannes Zits' paintings explore representations of gay sexuality within the context of painting. His new work continues in this vein, presenting images of bar interiors and gay couples, on a scale and in the style of Abstract Expressinoism. The result is a kind of warring of two disparate languages: the extreme America machismo of Abstract Expressionism with its almost hyperbolic expression of a private subjective state and the contemporary representations of the more politicized private spaces of gay bars. Zits' work poses questions pertaining to the language of painting-laden with a modernist history-and the language of contemporary media culture with its emphasis on issues of identity and social space and sets up a tension between the two.
By Johannes Zits
Touch
- March 12, 1996 to March 31, 1996
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"Touched by the Tears of a Butterfly" consists of seven rocking chairs, each a different colour and placed before a silk scrim that flutters in the breeze of an air ionizer. The viewer is invited to sit in one of the chairs to watch the fourteen minute video of a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis and preparing to fly. Following are images of different butterflies feeding.
By Mike MacDonald - Curated by Glenn Alteen
Touched By The Tears Of A Butterfly
- November 2, 1996
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No description available
By Edmund Melnychuk