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Medium Installation

Description

An art assemblage, arrangement, or environment specifically created for a particular interior (a gallery space, etc.). Often temporary.

Les Sedentaires Clandestins

November 9, 2001 to December 1, 2001
Exhibition, Performance
Les Sedentaires Clandestins is a sculpture that inhabits the whole space in the exhibit room with its sounds and projected shadows. Continuing a series of installation and performance artworks using record players, obsolete objects that are anachronisms in today's culture of change and innovation, this artwork is entirely built around the circular movement inherent to turntable mechanisms: going around in circles may be both agonizing (in an adult's world) and amusing (in a child's world).

May 4, 2001 to June 2, 2001
Exhibition
One wall of the gallery space will be painted in mud, creating a wallpaper design. The design will reflect a Victorian style/motif, appropriate to the influx or height of colonization. The design will continue partially onto the floor. The second installation is composed of rolls of silkscreened paper, printed with a wallpaper pattern hanging from the ceiling and rolling out onto the floor. The rolls of paper form a small room, closed in on itself, hiding/sheltering a pair of moccasins. The moccasins are made of a flimsy/transparent fabric and are filled with earth. The final installation is an apparent mound on the floor. Wound around itself, it is a long beaded length of interfacing made to form a shelter.

March 9, 2001 to March 31, 2001
Exhibition
This exhibition is comprised of a series of hand-written letters by the artist's older brother, who is afflicted with schizophrenia, and his drawings of spaceships. The works are affixed to the walls in a manner meant to be immersive to the viewer.

November 3, 2000 to December 2, 2000
Exhibition
Margaret Glavina's sculptural installation MUSEum focuses on the natural history museum as a site for the display of the natural world. But Glavina's vitrines focus on death of and in the natural world and her constructed still lives read as momento mori. The work explores notions of the natural and the unnatural as related to the museum display of specimens. Margaret Glavina is a Vancouver based artist who has studied at ECIAD and Capilano College.

May 11, 1999 to May 29, 1999
Exhibition
With a change in direction, Vancouver artist Carole Itter exhibits The Pink Room at the grunt gallery. Her prior large scale found object assemblages dealt with urban or rural ecological issues on the West Coast. With this installation, another facet is explored--more personal and emotional--dealing with the impact of deep grief and irreconcilable loss.

February 12, 1999 to March 6, 1999
Exhibition
Palimpsest is a performance that results in an installation in the gallery. An image of a bull painted by Paleolithic cave artists is projected onto the side of a large bull in the darkened gallery. Installation includes photographs, videos and other documentation of the performance.

April 7, 1998
Exhibition
The concept of a suitcase is always associated with one's private lifestyle, and a transparent suitcase appearing in a public place makes us feel uneasy. What we shall see is a well designed and finely tailored item of clothing considered typically chinese according to Western ethnocentric views, which can safely become a symbolic resource for representing the situation or the identity of Chinese art (the new taxonomy of cultures created under the guise of Western promotion of multiculturalism priviliges this symbolic resource.)

May 8, 1997 to May 24, 1997
Uncategorized
An installation featuring Leather's machine of confinement and restraint. This apparatus, the result of many years research and experimentation, speaks of obsession on many levels.

March 18, 1997 to April 5, 1997
Uncategorized
In "Transvisceral Borders", I use the human skin as a metaphorical magnet, to gather opposing elements from within the human psyche. The skin's ambiguous role as "link" and "barrier" to the external world, universally draws physical reaction and mental reflection. "Transvisceral Borders" probes the shadows between fascination and abhorence, between instinct and ethics. Like Entrapment I and II (shown in the video), this project continues to explore the duality in human nature.