CURSE!
Saturday Ap ril 11 1:30 PM
Joseph Workm an Theatre (100 1 Queen Street Admission: Pa West at Ossin y What You C gton) an In 2008, The Im year-long resid ages Festival and Charles St en were submitted cies to five mid-career an reet Video teamed up to of d fe the awards ce in the spring of 2008 and established artists. Propos r wi als re “curse”, the wi mony of the 2008 Images nners were announced at Fest nning artists we this in any wa re left to prod ival. Given the theme of y results, which they saw fit. One year on, weuce a work that interpreted range from Ar gentinean altar are presented with the s to Greek myth ology.
Altars
Altars Guillermina Bu Canada, 2009 zio , In Argentina it video, 6 min is devoted to pe not unusual to come acro ss op accidents or so le who have tragically died popular altars roads you will cial injustices. If you travel because of alo en streets of Buen counter a Gauchito Gil alt ng Argentinean ar, others. Consta os Aires is an altar from Crog and in the nt interventions int ly in flux, these altars act magnon, among as ephemeral o public spac e. Curse Cures Lesley Loksi Ch Canada, 2009 an , The arrival of video, 10 min a factory. This st new worker causes change s in ory is a reflectio n on labour an a blue jeans d transparenc y. The Professo r and the Blin Penny McCan d Girl Canada, 2009 n , video, 7 min A young soldi er War I finds him newly returned from the ba ttl self adrift and and unable to alone, traumat efields of World sp ized by the wa Professor and eak. A chance encounter r wi his his power of sp companion, a young Blind th a strange eech and with Girl, restores it, his hope fo r the future.
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Curse Cures
Believing Mak Steev Morga es it So n Canada, 2009 , Do you feel cu video, 2 min rs Aside from the ed? Research indicates yo u and co-worke day-to-day curses of your sp probably are. rs fatwas, papal there are the institutional cu ouse, neighbors bu Apocalypse. BA lls and of course the bigge rses, such as st of curses using NISHIT! provides instant re one of all, the lie technology. Ge a unique blend of ancient an f from all manner t yours now! d post-moder n Ariadne’s Th re Sarah Sham ad as Canada, 2009 h , This experimen video, 12 min myth wherein tal short film takes its name Ar fro to kill the Mino iadne falls in love with Thes m the Greek ta eus who seek gives Theseus ur in Daedalus’ labyrinth. s Cl a way out of the ball of red thread so that ever Ariadne he may find his labyrinth after the artist/filmm killing the Mino ak is each person er is as convoluted as the taur. The path of ’s life trajectory. lab to another, the From one arch yrinth itself, as itectural maz weaves in and red thread leads the viewer on a journey th e ou intrusive presen t of a dream like state an d an occasiona at t reality. lly