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Jayce Salloum
Artist Talk and Screening
Sunday, October 29, 9 pm

Jayce Salloum's video work exists within and between the very personal, local and the trans-national. It aligns itself with social and political struggles through an intimate subjectivity and discursive challenge. He has worked in installation, photography, drawing, performance, text, and video since 1975, as well as curating exhibitions, conducting workshops and coordinating cultural projects. A media arts philosopher and cultural activist, his work critically engages the perception of social manifestations and political realities. Salloum has lectured worldwide and has exhibited at the widest range of local and international venues possible, from the smallest unnamed storefronts and community centres to institutions such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Canada; Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Rotterdam International Film Festival; CaixaForum, Barcelona; 8th Havana Biennial and the 7th Sharjah Biennial. His texts have appeared in many journals including Third Text, Documents, Framework, Fuse, Felix, Mix, Public, Pubic Culture, and Semiotext(e). His most recent essay, sans titre /untitled: the video installation as an active archive is forthcoming in: Projecting Migration: Transcultural Documentary Practice (Wallflower Press: London, 2007, dist. Series, Whitechapel Gallery, London). In 2006 his work was featured in the 15th Biennale Of Sydney and in a solo installation at the Museum Villa Stuck, Munich.

Les Pardis Perdus
Saturday, October 28, 8 pm
Tickets $8 members/students/seniors, $10 general

Les Paradis Perdus is a theatrical maze through the past, inspired by childhood memories both fond and fearsome. With performances by Quebecois dancers Bill Coleman and Laurence Lemieux, and a whimsical sound score by Christopher Butterfield, including sound bites and themes from your favourite TV shows, Les Paradis Perdus is proof that “The best Paradises are the Paradises lost.”

Curators: Tamsin Clark, Ted Hiebert
Artists talks 7:30pm
Opening Friday, October 13, 8 pm with a reading by Michael Turner
Until November 14

Vulnerable Light invokes the vulnerability and ineffability of photographic representation in the works of two nationally recognized photo-based artists: Isabelle Hayeur (Montreal) and Jennifer Long (Toronto). Both examine how contemporary photography plays with truth and fiction, intimacy and distance. Hayeur’s large-scale seamlessly composite landscape images mimic the sweeping tradition of the “natural” landscape. Long’s intimate studio portraiture delicately evades the sitter’s exact identity and her relationship to the photographer. Minimal in concept, the poignancy of the exhibition will rely on the ability of these two artists to create meditative spaces where the boundaries between fictions and truths are blurred and teased.

external links:

Isabelle Hayeur
www.isabelle-hayeur.com

Jennifer Long
www.jenniferlong.ca

Telephone: 20 Questions and Other Guessing Games
Thursday, October 5, 8 pm
Tickets $8 members/students/seniors, $10 general

A collaboration spanning two cities over 13,000 km apart, Telephone puts a modern technological twist on a classic campfire game. Navigating through a sonic territory of shifting tectonic plates, these artists stitch together ambient soundscape, Toyko influenced noise mayhem, raw effects and irresistible groove with threads of irony and dark humour. This innovative intercontinental exchange of sounds and ideas made its debut at the Next Wave Festival in Melbourne, Australia in March 2006. Victoria is Telephone’s second engagment on  a four-city Canadian tour.

external links:

Western Front (Vancouver)
www.front.bc.ca
westspace (Melbourne, Australia)
www.westspace.org.au