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Normally I'd leave critiquing art gallery PR to Simpleposie, but YYZ's "ScenoArt" poster insert thingy is totally absurd! I saw the show, by Sue Gallagher and Andrew King, and it wasn't a spoof. I quite liked Sue Gallagher's piece, in which scenes from old films with dancing couples are split horizontally and reflected, so it looks like the dancers are spinning around neck-deep in a glassy pool. Anyhow, I really want to point out the poster. It's in all caps, for starters. One side is devoted to surreal vision statements from the curator (also a YYZ board member), complete with three claims of ownership and one statement of copyright, and accolades from what appears to be her professor from school (I hope I'm wrong about that). The other side is devoted to the artists, which amounts to their bios and statements blown up in big fonts with weird spacey typesetting and a statement from the curator/board member saying, "Are we not compelled to look for the ones that reflect us and our own work best?" Luckily for those not on the YYZ mailing list, the whole thing is online, typography and all, at www.scenoart.ca. Hooray!
Also mysterious: NOW magazine spelled "penis" as "penus" in today's letters section, both in print and online. Did they do it on purpose?
I've posted a new review here, about Melissa Doherty's recent show at Red Head Gallery, and Roberta McNaughton's current show at Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects.
video still from Utopics Video Guide by Geoffrey Pugen
I was very taken with Geoffrey Pugen's video in the current project room show at MOCCA, Future Species: Hybrids. Some of the themes, physical fitness and physiological recomposition, remind me of an early Kristin Lucas video, Watch out for Invisible Ghosts. The dancers with animal heads are really great, and Pugen morphs video to good effect, creating spooky/cute post-human monsters (with more narrative content than Kevin Krivel and David Warne). And today I am in love with the internet again because...you can see the video online!
video still from Utopics Video Guide by Geoffrey Pugen