Timeline Exhibitions and Events

Exhibitions and Events

Film

Unexpected Outcomes: Cinema and the Environment

17 January – 21 February, 2007

In this selection of dramas, documentaries and animated films, the environment plays a central role, and human interaction with that environment often leads to unexpected outcomes. This series is intended compliment the exhibitions Imaging a Shattering Earth and Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure.

17 January The Red Desert

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Edward Burtynsky, Bao Steel #8, Shanghai, China, 2005
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Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate

12 January – 25 February, 2007

Opening reception Thursday 11 January at 8 pm

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Still from Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure, 2006, 14min
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Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure: Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby

12 January – 25 February, 2007

Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby’s latest video offers a moving yet relentless experience of contemporary life (human and biological) in the face of moral, physical and environmental degradation. As Emily Jones comments in her accompanying essay, the tape is a collage of snippets of nature, webcam-captured cityscapes, cartoon drawings and descriptions of supernatural creatures conceived in laboratories, pieced together with sweetly-sung hymns to dystopian realities.

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The 53rd Annual SSFA Exhibition

8 – 20 December, 2006

Opening Reception Thursday 7 December at 8 pm

Our annual celebration of the creativity of students, staff, faculty and alumni of Dalhousie and King’s College, in painting, graphic art, photography, mixed media, video, sculpture and crafts. We welcome your artwork (original artwork only, please, framed and ready to install) for this exhibition, which makes no distinction between amateurs and professionals. Up to three entries per person will be accepted during regular gallery hours between 1 and 30 November. Entry forms are now available in the Gallery.

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i want! i want! i want! 2000/2006 wood/gyprock structure with built-in small audio speakers (8 ohm) in each window opening, CD players with amplifiers, sound: intermittent raucous laughter, three hand-carved pine ladders, available light
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Lani Maestro: Sing Mother (Twilight eats you)

20 October – 26 November, 2006

For this exhibition, internationally-known artist Lani Maestro presents several new works, as well as a reconstruction of herroom-sized installation i want! i want! i want! (previously exhibited in Montréal at the Galerie de l’UQAM).

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Cronenberg Cocktail

27 September – 22 November, 2006

One of the most influential and internationally successful Canadian filmmakers, David Cronenberg has helped to revitalize several cinematic genres, examining the queasy contours of violence, sex and technological obsessions in modern (and future) societies. Whether working in horror (Rabid, Shivers), Science Fiction (The Fly, Videodrome) or in literary adaptations (Naked Lunch, M. Butterfly), the Toronto-based director has created films that continue to provoke, disturb and entertain audiences all over the world.

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Film

Five O'Clock Docs

15 – 22 September, 2006

Documentaries are hot! This series, curated by AFF Senior Programmer and DAG Film Curator Ron Foley Macdonald, presents some of the best documentaries of the last decade. Screenings are at 5:00 pm. every day during the Festival.

Friday 15 September, 5 pm:  One Day In September

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Lisette Model

19 August – 8 October, 2006

Opening Reception Friday 18 August at 5:30 pm

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Palimpset Painting 3, 2004
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Bryan Maycock: (de)composed

19 August – 8 October, 2006

Opening Reception Friday 18 August at 5:30 pm

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Back/Flash

12 May – 2 July, 2006

Back/Flash is an examination of aboriginal media art ranging from early video production to ground-breaking video installation, virtual reality, net art, and digital works.

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