Exhibitions and Events
Exalted Beings: Animal Relationships
Dogs and cats. Silly pet tricks versus animal intelligence. Domesticated animals, stuffed birds and talking parrots contrasted with Buddhist states of being, biogenetic engineering and tales of animals living in houses.
Zhari-Panjwai: Dispatches from Afghanistan New Work by Louie Palu
To complement Craig Barber’s work, award-winning Canadian photographer Louie Palu was invited by the Dalhousie Art Gallery to exhibit a suite of his photographic work produced in Afghanistan that profiles the activities of NATO-led Canadian military forces. Whereas Barber’s photographic project seeks redemption and reconciliation with a formative episode in American history, Palu’s images are a steely-eyed view of current Canadian engagements.
Ghosts in the Landscape: Vietnam Revisited photographs by Craig J. Barber
Organized and toured by George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY. Even amid the chaos of war Craig Barber, then an 18-year old combat Marine, appreciated the beauty of Vietnam. 1n 1995, some thirty years later and now a professional fine art photographer, Barber decided to return to Vietnam partly as a cathartic exercise for himself and partly to see whether time had healed a country and psyche once ravaged by war. Over a four-year period Barber traversed many of his former military routes making images with an 8” x 10” pinhole camera.
Media Souvenir: Travel & Tourism in Contemporary Art Video
Media Souvenir is a video exhibition that relates to questions of travel and tourism in a time when numerous people are on the move due to immigration, education, freedom from war and poverty and visits to other distinct cultures. This exhibition, sponsored by the Centre For Art Tapes, was created from a national call to distributors and individuals, resulting in a program that encompasses all of these questions. Personal journeys predominate as children of immigrants return to their parents’ culture in an attempt to come to terms with a past that challenges their expectations.
Ursula Johnson: The Urban Aboriginal Guide to Halifax, NS
When looking through the catalogue for Defiant Beauty: William Hind in the Labrador Peninsula, Ursula Johnson, a Mi'kmaq artist from Eskasoni in Cape Breton, was fascinated with the depictions of the Innu guides on the Hind expedition. She empathized with them as path-finding guides who helped the Europeans to ‘discover’ the Innu’s ancestral land for their own colonizing purposes.
Defiant Beauty: William Hind in the Labrador Peninsula
In the summer of 1861, Canadian artist William Hind (1833-1889) accompanied his brother Henry on his first exploration of the interior of the Labrador Peninsula, a vast, defiant landscape of breathtaking beauty. Few Europeans had traveled into this inaccessible and near mythical land which, after more than ten thousand years, still remains the familiar home of many First Nation’s peoples.
Marlene MacCallum: The Architectural Uncanny
Opening Reception Thursday 10 January at 8 pm Remarks by Mark Bovey, Assistant Professor of Printmaking, NSCAD University Organized and circulated by the Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, Corner Brook, Newfoundland This exhibition consists of three series of photogravure prints, eight book works and one photographic body of work. Underlying all of the projects is MacCallum’s interest in the uncanny potential of domestic spaces.
