Due to unfores een commitments\, Paul Chan is not able to travel to speak on February 1st as announced. We are pleased\, however\, to be able\, in c onjunction with Western Front Exhibitions and courtesy of Greene Naftali Ga llery\, New York\, to present a screening of Chan’s videos\, The Tin Dr um Trilogy.
The three videos of the trilogy are:
R
E: THE_OPERATION (28 Minutes\, 2002)
"Ideas were pressing
against one another like rams. Hate had a sanitary pace. Old age drew laug
hter and the child was encouraged to bite. The world was all flags." - Henr
I Michaux
Based on a set of drawings that depict members of
the George W. Bush administration as wounded soldiers in the war against t
errorism\, RE: THE_OPERATION explores the sexual and philosophical dynamics
of war through the lives of the members as they physically engage each oth
er and the "enemy". Letters\, notes\, and other textual ephemera written by
"Bush" and others are narrated and accompanied by digital snapshots from a
round the world as they articulate the neuroses and obsessions that drive t
hem toward infinite war.
BAGHDAD IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER (51 Minutes\, 2003)
"It is very nearly the end. It is very nea
rly life." - Helene Cixous
Baghdad... is an "ambient" video essa y of life in Baghdad before the American invasion and occupation. Videograp hed by Chan and a host of Iraqis working with Voices in the Wilderness\, a Nobel peace prize nominated activist group working in Iraq to stop the driv e for war\, Baghdad... intimately portrays Iraqis singing\, dancing\, and s truggling as they await the coming of another war. Subtitled in seven langu ages (Arabic\, Chinese\, English\, French\, German\, Italian\, and Spanish) .
NOW PROMISE NOW THREAT (33 Minutes\, 2005)
"Now too late\, he understood her. The heart that pumped out love\, the m
outh that spoke the Word\, didn't count." - Toni Morrison\, Beloved
Part documentary\, part visual manifesto\, NOW PROMISE NOW THREAT uses Omaha\, Nebraska (population 390\,000\, literally located in the middle of the U.S.) as a site and subject to follow the often unexpected lines connec ting people\, religion and politics in "red state" America. An evangelical pastor opposes the mixing of church and state on religious grounds. An anti -abortion mother deplores the hypocrisy of the pro-life movement for being pro-war. A young man wants to die for his country so he can--at last--have a life worthy of living. NOW PROMISE NOW THREAT mixes interviews with local ly produced footage and kidnapping videos from Iraq transformed into fields of undulating color to create a moving "apologia" for the united red state s of America.
Organized by Manuel Pina and William Wood\ , Department of Art History\, Visual Art and Theory\, The University of Bri tish Columbia.
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