Markus Lake, Royal Quiet Deluxe, 2011, mixed media installation: typewriter, black box, amplifier, variable dimensions
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I Could Tell You About the River or We Can Just Get In is a selection of text based art from student artists and writers. Text in visual art navigates a particular set of variables: information communicated through text inherits language, linearity, and authorship, while information communicated through visual art often divorces itself from these signifiers. At the intersection of the written work and the conceptual act, this exhibition offers a variety of perspectives on the role of text in art. The River presents text as cartograph: a tool within formal representations of subjective histories, narratives,
and dreams; text as wherein the logic of text is adopted onto other media; text as inheritance: accumulated histories ripe to be deciphered or forgotten; and, finally, text as mediated experienced, from which we take the title of the show: I Could Tell You About the River or We Can Just Get In.
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The curator:
Tess Edmonson is a fourth-year Liberal Arts student, writer and editor. She works with a group of colleagues to produce Palimpsest Magazine. Her recent curatorial projects include: Medicine (January 2011), Carry On (2010) and Daily Print (2009).
The artists:
Razielle Aigen holds a degree in Contemporary Philosophy. She works with the themes of dream, memory and the archive. Grounded in mixed media, including photography, sculpture and written text, she collaborates with sound ar tists to give her exhibition space a sonar dimension. She also reads at The Royal Poet's Society readings.
Deragh Campbell is a third year Creative Writing Major. She has worked in publishing in Montreal and London, UK. She is interested in producing printed works that imitate the Internet and works on the Internet that allow multiple paths through narrative. She also regularly collaborates with Palimpsest Magazine.
Frances Conley-Wood is a fourth-year student in Studio Arts. She has previously shown work with Art Mat- ters, and is currently producing work to be shown in a group show in the spring. She has expanded her art practice from painting to include multiple media such as photography, sculpture, print, and drawing. She empha- sizes the relationship of the viewer to the work.
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Heather Jackson is a fourth-year Fibres Major. Her statement explores personal mythologies and obsessive behaviours (dévotion, industry and uncomfort) and rests somewhere between the public and the personal. A yarnbomber and zine maker at heart, she plays between miniscule and massive when making and distributing. She also collaborates with Usine C, a Montreal artist-run centre.
Markus Lake is a sound artist/designer/editor currently majoring in Electroacoustics. Also musician, he recently released a solo 3" CD on Dream Sequence records under the name Markus Floats. He plays in Montreal bands Jane Vain and Silver Dapple. His works explore the difference between an artist's intention and the audience's interpretation.
Pier-Anne Mercier is a third year Sculpture Major. Her artistic practice, mainly painting and sculpture, gravitates around language and science-related writings. Her installations question language as a structure and the similari- ties between the reader of a book and the viewer of an artwork, the painter and the writer, the scientist and the installation artist.
Ashley Opheim is a fourth-year Creative Writing student. Her practice explores the fluidity of text and syntax. Her work has been published in Soliloquys and she has worked with acclaimed writer Roo Borson on her poetry manuscript via Arc Poetry Magazine. She is currently the Fringe Arts editor at The Link, a student paper. |
