Interview mit Stan Douglas im Mousse Magazin

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mousse 32 ~ Stan Douglas

MIDCENTURY DISCO STAN DOUGLAS INTERVIEWED BY MONIKA SZEWCZYK

Stan Douglas uses a fascinating method to produce his series: we might call it performance, but the artist sees it more like a costume drama in fragments that offers glimpses onto wider socio-political scenarios from recent history. In “Midcentury Studio” (and the related series “Malabar People”) Douglas assumes the persona of a Canadian journalist and war veteran, using image production techniques that are compatible with those of the 1940s. In a conversation with the artist, Monika Szewczyk investigates this work and the recent “Disco Angola”, still in progress, that draws parallels between postcolonial Angola and the post-industrial New York of the 1970s.

Two Friends, 1975, from “Disco Angola”, 2012. Courtesy: the artist and David Zwirner, New York

Opposite, top – Interior of the Second Hotel Vancouver from the prototype for the iOS app Circa 1948, 2012. Courtesy: the artist and the National Film Board of Canada

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Opposite, bottom – Historical Photograph of the Ballroom in the Second Hotel Vancouver, 1916


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