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[OPIRG-EVENTS] Screening on Queerness and Nationhood, Fri. at Club SAW
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Ottawa. Sept. 18, 2003
AVAILABLE LIGHT LAUNCHES ITS NEW 2003/04 SCREENING
SERIES WITH A TIMELY
PROGRAM ON QUEERNESS AND NATIONHOOD
Ottawa's Available Light Screening Collective launches
its 2003/04
screening series of experimental film and video with
an in-your-face
program of short videos and films curated by Toronto
multimedia artist
Andrew James Paterson. Entitled Interior Exteriors,
the screening takes
place on Friday, September 26th, at 7:30 PM at Club
SAW, 67 Nicholas
Street,. Admission is $5 general/$3 students,
unwaged. Admission info:
564-7240 or www.sawvideo.com. Curator Andrew Paterson
will introduce
the screening and one of the filmmakers, Toronto's
Graham Hollings, will
also be in attendance.
During this time of federal government debates on
same-sex marriage and
homophobic hate crime, what better moment than to
present a
thought-provoking program about queerness, nationhood,
and simplistic
dualities? Interior Exteriors is a screening that
follows a route from
east to west across Canada, albeit with some serious
detours. According
to curator Andrew Paterson, "These eight films and
tapes concern
themselves with the already uneasy interactions
between nature and
culture, and then dance on top of any traditional
definitions of these
concepts. They accept and then subvert that eternal
truism that states
of mind and states of bodies are more often than not
deliriously
symbiotic." The artists featured in Interior
Exteriors include Valerie
Leblanc, Zachery Longboy, Leslie Peters, John Price,
Graham Hollings,
Nick Fox-Gieg, John Smith, and the late Colin
Campbell.
Interior Exteriors includes the boisterously
irreverent work, "Canada:
Sperm Bank of Satan", by Graham Hollings, based on a
bizarre epithet
coined by American evangelist Pat Buchanan. John
Price's film,
"Wreck/Nation", by contrast, concerns itself with the
fragility and
ultimate absurdity of nationalism. UK artist John
Smith's video, "The
Black Tower" is a humorous and slightly menacing tale
of the narrator's
descent into paranoia as he is pursued by a mysterious
peripatetic black
tower. Rarely screened in Canada, "The Black Tower"
is not to be
missed. Colin Campbell's penultimate videotape
"Disheveled Destiny" is
a revisioning of a Canadian classic of video art,
Campbell's own
"Sackville, I'm Yours" from 1972. Campbell's persona
"Art Star" is
back, with another alter-ego in tow, to sort out his
very dusty and
disheveled past.
Guest curator Andrew James Paterson is a Toronto-based
interdisciplinary
artist and curator working with performance, video and
film, musical
composition, as well as fictional and critical
writing. He has
previously curated media art programs for Trinity
Square Video, A Space,
Mercer Union, Cinematheque Ontario, the Images
Festival, Pleasure Dome,
and YYZ Artists Outlet in Toronto.
Available Light is a collective of eight Ottawa media
artists and
curators who present monthly screenings of
experimental films and
videos. The collective has been active in the
thriving Ottawa-Gatineau
media art community since late 1995. Its 2003-04
season runs from
September to June and highlights include a program of
new aboriginal
Canadian video (October), a spotlight on Montreal
video artist Robert
Morin (January), a show curated by Toronto's Karyn
Sandlos (March), and
an ambitious program of recent videos from Beirut,
Lebanon, guest
curated by Laura U. Marks (April). Available Light
receives financial
support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the
City of Ottawa.
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Contact:
Penny McCann, 236-6761 or penelope@cyberus.ca
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