Artcite partners with BookFestWindsor 2009
October 16 - November 14, 2009.
Aubrey Reeves
"DAGBOK"
Video and mixed media Installation
In gallery twinned with
Susana Reisman
"On the scale of History"
Photographic and mixed media Installation
Two exhibits selected for their diverse and innovative approaches to "reading of the text".
Presented in partnership with Bookfest - Nov 4-7
The annual BookFestWindsor festival, an annual cross-disciplinary festival featuring readings, workshops and panel discussions by writers and visual artists in celebration "all aspects of the book". Artcite's contribution to BookFest presents challenging and diverse artists' texts, bookworks and non-traditional media/digital publishing encompassing the expanded theme of "the book".
Aubrey Reeves'
"Dagbok"
"Dagbok" (The Diary) was inspired by (and based on) the real-life experiences of Petter Moen, a Norwegian newspaper journalist and patriot who recorded a diary of his experiences during eight months of captivity in a Nazi prison (four months of which he spent in solitary confinement). Without access to pen or paper, Moen painstakingly recorded his observations on life, war, love and his troubled faith by pricking pinhole letters onto coarse lavatory paper (Moen only had use of a single tack removed from the black-out curtain over his cell window).
To interpret and convey Moen's painful story, Reeves recreated the prisoner's meticulous texts (excerpted from his diary, as translated into English) with pin-hole text onto two 45" x 72" translucent paper screens, which, when installed in the gallery and lit with Reeve's projected, b&w video imagery (alluding to both Moen's solitary confinement and his internal struggles) makes visible Moen's poignant, secret diary.
You can view information about "Dagbok" at: http://www.aubreyreeves.com/projectsdagbok.html
Susana Reisman
"On the scale of History"
Selected canonical texts on the history of photography (Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida, Volker Kahmen's Art History of Photography and Susan Sontag's On Photography) are re-photographed and treated sculpturally to engage viewers in a dialogue about the process of reading history.
You can view information about "On the scale of History" at: http://www.susanareisman.com/archive.html
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