Stan
Brakhage
ABOUT TIME - Four
Late Stan Brakhage Films
March 11 - April 9, 2006
Stan Brakhage,
still from "Christ Mass Sex Dance", 1991.
Courtesy of the Estate of Stan Brakhage & www.fredcamper.com
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Stan Brakhage is perhaps the best known and most mythologized
of all "experimental" filmmakers. Light itself, and
the pre-linguistic seeing of children, were his main subjects.
Brakhage's films oscillate between the twin poles of realities
and poetics, in his case the poetics of cinema as an extension
of poetics in language. Brakhage made many films by painting directly
onto the film. More so than any other filmmaker, Brakhage addressed
alternative modes of production, new ways of seeing, and imaginative
ways of thinking about media. PHG will screen a twenty-minute
16mm program of four sound films from the late 1980s and early
90s. Although Brakhage’s career ended with his death in
Victoria on March 9th, 2003, his legacy lives on in the 380 films
that he made. This is the first time that Brakhage’s films
will be shown in a context provided by the recent work his close
friend Carolee Schneemann. Program: Kindering(1987), Loud Visual
Noises(1987), Christ Mass Sex Dance(1991), Crack Glass Eulogy(1992).
Curated by Bill Jeffries in collaboration with Marilyn Brakhage.
Opening Reception: Saturday March 11 from 4 -6pm
Talk:
with Marilyn Brakhage, Bill Jeffries & Mark Harris, Saturday
March 25, 4pm at PHG.
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Carolee Schneemann
DEVOUR
March 11 - April 9, 2006
Carolee Schneemann, DEVOUR, 2003, dual channel
video stills
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Carolee Schneemann is a multidisciplinary artist whose art has,
for thirty-five years, been at the forefront of the interface
between performance and sexuality, especially the discourse around
the body and gender. Her work often relies on research into archaic
visual traditions and deals with the subject of pleasure, often
pleasure that she has extracted from suppressive taboos, and especially
the status of the body of the artist as it exists in relation
to the social body. Devour(2003) is a dual-screen video projection
of collaged images relating to world events and the impact of
events on the personal realm. The structural strategies she employs
in this work grow out of the ideas that she and Stan Brakhage
discussed for many years. Curated by Bill Jeffries.
ARTIST
TALK:
Friday, March 10, 7pm
at
Emily Carr Institute
1399 Johnson Street, Granville Island, Vancouver - South Building
Lecture Hall
Artist Talk: Saturday March 11, 3pm followed by a reception
from 4 - 6pm at
PHG
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