Shea Allan-McCachen\, Scott Billings\, Krista Dragomer\, Julio Lopez\, Jen Weih< /p>
Opening Reception: Thursday\, September 10\, 7 - 10
pm
External Critique by Liz Magor: Saturday September
12\, 12 to 5 pm
Interrobang. This uncommon typographic liga ture superimposes the meaning of a question mark onto an exclamation point and indicates a common connection and bonding between different characters whose meaning depends on their surroundings. Interrobang\, the exh ibition\, presents divergent work by five emerging artists who work in the mediums of video\, sound\, sculpture\, drawing\, painting and new media.
Shea Allan-McCachen’s drawings\, paintings and collage s investigate bodily abstraction\, making reference to the interstice betwe en a penetrating gaze and the penetrated body. Incorporating primary source material from Hustlermagazine\, her fragmented assemblages of gen italia\, bodiless apparel and indistinguishable swatches of skin evoke an a nxiety about the body while partaking in an aesthetic search for beauty. Th e result is a matrix of fleshy exploration in which the traditional concept of a figure is absent.
Scott Billings’ media works explore the relationship between the body and the cinematic machine. By tak ing apart and reconfiguring older obsolete machines\, such as turning theat rical lighting into a projector\, Billings’ creates both moving objects and moving images that play with the concepts of mimicry and motility to depic t and understand the quality of being animal. Often using his own body and figures of animals\, his work resides somewhere between cinema and automata . The modified machine apparatus delivers a moving image to activate the vi ewer’s body and prompt a physical interrogation of the exhibition space.
Sound artist Krista Dragomer works collaboratively wit h video artist Rashin Fahandej to explore moments that occur between histor ical events\, borders\, and identities. Their sound and video works engage the audience in a sensorial experience of “culture” as something that exist s within one’s body. The artists’ audiovisual installations combine project ion with monitors and multi-channel stereo sound. Their works incorporates ideas about shared literature\, music\, art\, traditions\, dreams and night mares—common struggles and stories told by different people in different pl aces\, past and present.
Built around the principles of the Open Sour ce movement Julio Lopez’ current project HUB\, is an experimental web-based initiative focused on collaboration\, the sharin g of ideas and knowledge\, and the creative exploration of information tech nology. For the duration of the project\, Lopez will operate a computer lab that provides a workspace and access to software and technologies free of charge\, and delivers educational programming focused on providing particip ants with technical knowledge. A series of talks will highlight the work of local Vancouver artists that use a variety of technologies within their ar tistic practice. More information and a schedule of events can be found at www.hubcentre.org.
Jen Weih’s practice investigates a combination of the rational and the irrational. The work proposes a dialo g between construction and collapse\, elegance and horror\, sense and non-s ense. Her projects include a range of aesthetics from “bad” fonts to geomet ric balance and can include found\, manufactured\, or crafted materials. Wo rk for this show will include a collection of 8 ½ x 11 inch\, 20 lb. bond\, paper sculptures produced through a combination of conscious decision maki ng and unconscious and chance-based processes.
The department of Art History\, Visual Art\, and Theory will be hosting an afternoon event where each graduating student will speak about her or his work\, followed by a di scussion led by Liz Magor.
The public is invited to participate in th e critique of and conversation about the MFA students’ presentation and wor k.
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For further information please contact: Naomi Sawada at na
omi.sawada@ubc.ca\,
tel: (604) 822-3640\, or fax: (604) 822-6689
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
http://www.belkin.ubc.ca/
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