Steven Bates (Montreal, QC.) November 8 to December 7, 2013 Silence, Time and Dead Air On the radio silence is not permitted. Dead air – the absence of audible programmed material – suggests instability and disorder: warfare (an attack on a transmission tower), loss of revenue (advertising), human or technical error. A radio performance in […]
Continue Reading —›Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen (Brooklyn, N.Y./Stockholm, SWE.) Ryan Park (Toronto, ON.) September 13 – October 19, 2013 Between 13 September and 19 October 2013, Paved Arts held Outer Space, a show that put Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen’s multimedia exhibit, Space Fiction and the Archives, into dialogue with Ryan Park’s video installations: Rabbit and Dark is the Night […]
Continue Reading —›Curated by David LaRiviere May 17 to June 21, 2013. Maria Whiteman (Edmonton) Clint Wilson (Edmonton) Curated by David LaRiviere. Text by David LaRiviere. Memories of a Naturalist How is it that the Memories of a Naturalist should relate to the work of artists Maria Whiteman and Clint Wilson? In order to address this question […]
Continue Reading —›Evergon (Montreal) and Bart Gazzola (Saskatoon) March 15 – April 20, 2013 “People always venerate the wrong thing,” write Louis Armand, in his recent novel Breakfast at Midnight. In a discussion about the ubiquity of suffering, Armand punctuates the acid noir landscape, remarking “The crucifixion’s beautiful because it’s ordinary.” I am given to thinking about […]
Continue Reading —›Laura Dutton (Victoria) January 18 – February 23, 2013. Laura Dutton’s exhibition Quietly at the Window is a humming tableau of temporal collapse. The word “quietly” is a likeness to silence, or absence, but as an adverb it also implies action, process, and presence. This is the kind of integrated duality that is embodied […]
Continue Reading —›Masterclass with Laura Dutton Saturday, January 19th from 2-4pm in the event space. Exhibition Description: This series of free-standing (sculptural) photographic prints extends the artist’s investigation into light, both as the elemental material of photographic process and as a subject matter. Laura Dutton’s chosen motif, low resolution images of windows on buildings, doubles the motif […]
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