Exhibitions and Events
David Clark: A is for Apple
Halifax-based film and media artist David Clark presented a new interactive digital installation, A is for Apple, that explored a "hermeneutics or cryptography of the apple", and created a labyrinthine network of images, anecdotes, associations and meanings (with surround sound). The work was simultaneously accessible in the New Media Gallery, and on the world wide web as an online interactive project, as well as in CD-ROM form as a part of the exhibition catalogue.
semble: Works by Lyn Carter, Ginette Legaré and Jeannie Thib
Ontario-based artists Lyn Carter, Ginette Legaré and Jeannie Thib create uncanny, witty and provocative objects. Each artist is in mid-career and has a significant practice, but only one has previously exhibited her work in the Atlantic region of Canada. The works in semble were constructed out of materials such as fabric, paper, neoprene, stainless steel, and latex rubber, and seemed to have their origins in spaces such as the kitchen, the laboratory and the archive.
Stories of the Spirit: The films of Catherine Martin
In 1989, Catherine Martin became Nova Scotia's first Mi'kmaw filmmaker with her six-minute documentary Minqon Minqon, a profile of Maliseet artist Shirley Bear (filmed in collaboration with Kimberlee McTaggart). Today she has two feature-length films and many short films and docudramas to her name, as well as other works in progress. Through her singing, teaching, activism and work on various boards and task forces, Martin is an important advocate for aboriginal arts, education and language, and has been vital in establishing and nurturing a Mi'kmaq film culture in Nova Scotia.
No Man's Land: the Photographs of Lynne Cohen
For almost three decades, internationally renowned, award-winning photographer Lynne Cohen has been hunting down and photographing "found" interiors of astonishing variety, presenting us with a funny, perplexing and ultimately chilling vision of the world - a humanly engineered environment "where the boundaries between inside and outside, nature and culture, pleasure and pain, have been blurred, stripped of their original connotations.
