Exhibition Essays 2009

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To perform a cinema

by Jacob Korczynski
From the performance SATELLITE by Redmond Entwhistle (Saturday, October 17, 2009)
Underscoring the performative impulse inherent in the moving image event and the role of the cinema as a discursive space, Redmond Entwistle’s Satellite is a deliberation on the intricate relationship to liveness and presence in film.

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War at a Distance: Visual Culture and the Framing of Public Conversations about Canadian Forces in Afghanistan

by Blake Fitzpatrick, Karyn Sandlos, and Roger I. Simon
From the exhibition War at a Distance (October 24 – November 21, 2009)
When the government of a nation makes the decision to send its Armed Forces into combat it is no small matter for that nation’s civic culture….

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WHITE HOT

by Marina Roy
From the exhibition WHITE HOT by Kelly Lycan (September 12 – October 10, 2009)
The exhibition calls into question our preconceived notions of the value and definition of art as well as the function of the art gallery as a site for encountering elevated art objects or images…

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In May (After October)

by Kathrin Meyer
From the exhibition In May (After October) (May 8 – June 13, 2009)
In May 1968, students marched the streets of Paris and more than ten million workers all over France went out on strike. In October 1917, militant revolutionaries in Russia overthrew the government and subsequently established a communist state…

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The Forgotten Gesture, The Additional Act

by Fionn Meade
From the exhibition In the Room by Sung Hwan Kim (April 7 – May 2, 2009)
Occupying a space between storytelling and spectacle, the video installations and live performances that comprise Kim’s practice adopt elements of theater even while disrupting the escapism and subjective identification so often associated with the medium…

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Here

by Stuart Tulloch
From the exhibition 2008 / 2009 by Nina Könnemann (February 25 – March 21, 2009)
There is nowhere else like Blackpool: a seaside town on the northwest coast of England that specializes in providing entertainment to the British working-class…

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Uninoperative Community

by Alex Snukal
From the exhibition Double Double Land Land by Jon McCurley (January 17 – February 14, 2009)
In Mohammed Mrabet’s story, The Sea in the Street, the unnamed protagonist – “a certain kif-smoker” – visits a merchant for a litre of cooking oil…

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