THE EVER-CHANGING LIGHT
A solo show by Raymond Boisjoly
April 17- May 29 2010, Tuesday- Saturday 12-5pm
Access Gallery 437 W. Hastings St.
Curated by Jesse Birch & Liz Park
The Ever-Changing Light explores the conceptual and material understanding of communication. As Boisjoly articulates:
“Though there is always the possibility it could be something else, The Ever-Changing Light pairs deliberate constructions with incidental and self-generating forms to grasp the unarticulated middle beyond beginnings and the end. Live feed video projections of television static and video-based recursion stand as the visual surrogates for ill-defined and convoluted ideas concerning the situation we find ourselves in, what will never be and what is still to come–instantaneous and forever deferred.
Working from disparate sources bearing no established relation to one another, The Ever-Changing Light does not exist to redeem any mere concept. Instead, it provides a means to explore inchoate, expansive potential and existing, delimited phenomena.”
Accompanying the exhibition will be the launch of a text-based public art project by Boisjoly installed on the façade of Access Gallery’s new space.
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NORTHERN SYMPHONY: ENDLESS REMIXES
A solo show by Paul Walde
May 14 – June 23 | Tuesday – Friday 10-5 pm, Saturday & Sunday 11-5 pm
Malaspina Printmakers 1555 Duranleau Street, Granville Island
Curated by Andrea Pinheiro
May 20 7-9 pm | Opening reception & 1st remix: string ensemble
May 21st 7-9 pm | 2nd remix: Cody Aalo Guha
May 29th 5-7 pm | 3rd remix: Scott Aitkin, Frederick Brummer, Jesse Gentes and Paul Walde
A multi-component installation that translates the gnawed markings on a tree felled by beavers into cultural forms. These forms include: relief printed wallpaper, a cast architectural frieze, furnishings, two dimensional artworks and a digital music score remixed and reconstructed by electronic and acoustic experimental musicians. An outhouse renovated into a miniature art gallery refurbished with drywall, track-lighting and a mini-retrospective completes the installation by blurring the lines between inside and outside, the cultural and the natural; the poetic and the literal.
Endless Remixes is a compilation of audio remixes, mashes, translations, reconstructions, reinterpretations, and improvisations based on the digital score of Northern Symphony. The score was derived from markings made by beavers on a tree felled in front of Walde’s studio at Rock Lake, Ontario. During each presentation of Northern Symphony local musicians are invited to interpret the score. The result of this ongoing collaborative process is a diverse collection of audio works that reflect the process of digesting a work of art, with the exception that it is exposed for the audience to witness.
