Trapped in a Movie Stutter

What & Why recent exhibitions have inspired me:

The phenomenology of experiencing  sculpture often feels more like watching a building, and wondering if it’s going to fall.

Well, the installation of Emily and Cooper titled “Reanimating the Universe with Basic Breathing Exercises” is back on it’s feet – no! It’s got it’s back up. Wait – it’s fallen. No it’s back up. No wait It’s fallen again – Let’s just take a deep breath.

Graeme Patterson seems to be a sculptor working away from being a film maker. The first stuff I saw of his was an elaborate mock up set for making animations of his urban ballet dream songs. Now his zombie-like characters are reanimated, and have left the mutant farm to land in the gallery, on pedestals made of scraps from the simulacrum stage.

I heard that Werner Herzog and David Lynch are making a movie together. That’s like dropping the binoculars in a fish tank.

I’d like to see David Hoffos collaborate with Scott Saunders. Their work has similarities and many differences too. First of all, there are no mirrors in Scott’s exhibit. But definitely, the wonders of cimena have these two fellows entranced. Severe drama and a sense of ‘something happening in the other room’ takes shape. I like to call it the ‘violence of allegory’. I would also like to see where their considerations of rough and smooth would get ironed out.

Guest post by Mitchell Wiebe, an artist living in Halifax. Photo Credit: Mitchell Wiebe titled “The Troll’s Journey”

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