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FIONA BANNER, ROSA BARBA, NATHALIE MELIKIAN: HORROR, SCIENCE FICTION, PORN
In conjunction with this year's Images Festival, the AGYU presents Fiona Banner, Rosa Barba, and Nathalie Melikian, artists who look at film but project it to another end--as film experienced through language, which is why the exhibition Horror, Science Fiction, Porn includes no actual films.
This international group of artists - from Britain, Germany, and Canada - looks at language's determinant conditioning and indeterminate effects through a variety of film genres. The conventions that establish a genre (right from the start with the writing of the script) and those that manipulate the spectator, are only partly at play in this examination as these artists relate the genres of science fiction, action, horror, and pornography to their constructions, technical apparatus, and reception.
Fiona Banner, Rosa Barba, Nathalie Melikian: Horror Science Fiction Porn opens with a public reception on Wednesday, 13 April, from 6-9 pm and will continue until 12 June 2005.
The Art Gallery of York University is located at 4700 Keele St. in the North Ross building of York University, Suite 145. Gallery hours are: Monday to Friday, 10 am - 4 pm; Wednesday, 10 am - 8 pm; Sunday, noon-5; Saturday, closed. Admission is free.
The AGYU is a university-affiliated public, non-profit, contemporary art gallery supported by York University, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the city of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council. The AGYU would like to thank the Goethe Institute for their support of this exhibition.
Get on the free performance bus for a trip to the opening with multi-disciplinary artist and activist Mirha-Soleil Ross. The bus departs the AGO (corner of Dundas and McCaul St.) at 6:00 pm. The bus returns downtown to Innis Town Hall in time for the Pierian Spring International Shorts program at 9 pm and features a choral performance with the Boys' Choir of Lesbos arranged by Külli Kaats. The bus will make a second stop at the AGO at 9:15 pm.
The AGYU's final experimental music program of the season will feature a performance by the Toronto-based electroacoustic trio quasiMODAL at the AGYU on Wednesday, 18 May at 7 pm. Ambient and at times sublime sonicscapes are generated in improvised performances by cellist cheryl o, synthesist/pianist Steven Sauvé, and guitarist Michael Keith, who experiment with acoustic instruments, electronic technologies, and found sound.
Visit www.yorku.ca/agyu to see our latest web initiative AGYU Podcast and stream or download audio clips from Istvan Kantor: Machinery Execution Discussion Panel with presentations by Steven Bailey, Shannon Bell, Jennifer Fisher as well as past AGYU performance buses. Go to our on-line bookstore to purchase AGYU catalogues, limited editions, and posters; search our multi-media archives to access installation views, images, and information about past-exhibitions, artists, and educational programmes; and participate in a virtual dialogue about our exhibitions on our new AGYU BLOG.
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For more information, to obtain press images or schedule an intervie with the artists or curator, Philip Monk, please contact:
Emelie Chhangur
Assistant Curator
416.736.5169
emelie@yorku.ca
Image (in sequence of animation):
Fiona Banner, Arsewoman in Wonderland, 2001. Detail. Billboard, screenprint on paper, 365 x 610cm. Courtesy of Frith Street Gallery, London.
Nathalie Melikian, Horror, 1998. Installation View. Video Still. Courtesy of the artist.
Rosa Barba, Machine Vision Seekers, 2003. Installation View. 16mm Film Installation.
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