The Long Take: Videos on Architecture and Social Space. Installation view, Audain Gallery, 2011. Photo: Kevin Schmidt.
The Long Take: Videos on Architecture and Social Space
January 13 – February 26, 2011
Audain Gallery
The Long Take gathers national and international artists whose work seeks to represent the scales, angles and details of architecture across urban territories. The works in the exhibition aim to expose the hidden relations of the city, such as the dynamic between gender and space, and the pervasive effects of socio-economic processes on urban sites. Presented as large-scale projections, the works transform Audain Gallery and provoke a discussion about imagining the urban and artistic strategies of representation.
Mark Lewis is one of Canada’s most renowned and internationally acclaimed artists. The Long Take features Lewis’ Children’s Games, Heygate Estate (2002). The work explores the modernist estate named in its title, located in London, England, which currently awaits demolition. In this video, the camera steadily tracks along an architecturally oppressive raised concrete passage between working-class apartment buildings, as children play in the yards and the alleys below.
Terence Gower’s Ciudad Moderna (2004) explores the city as a built environment by using clips from the source film Despedida de Casada (Dir. Juan de Orduna). Through a process of re-editing, Gower isolates the architecture shown in the film by transforming selected scenes into perspective renderings that highlight the modernist architecture of Mexico, such as the Museum of Anthropology and the Hotel Presidente in Acapulco.
Dorit Magreiter’s Pavilion (2009) explores the relationship between notions of the interior and the exterior by examining the Pavilion as an exhibition space. The work speaks to the contingent relationship between the status of the image and the space inside and outside the projection. Here, the pavilion becomes the site of multiple interactions for Magreiter to explore the ways in which architectural spaces can determine social behavior.
The exhibition also features Natascha Sadr Haghighian and Judith Hopf’s Villa Watch (2005), and Clemens von Wedemeyer’s Silberhoehe (Silver Heights) (2003).
Curated by Sabine Bitter.
Events
Opening Reception
Wednesday, January 12, 8pm
Artist Talk: Terence Gower
Wednesday, January 12, 6:30pm
Exhibition Tours
Thursday, February 3: For Emily Carr University students
Wednesday, February 9: With Judy Radul for SFU Visual Art students
Thursday, February 10: For Emily Carr University students
Wednesday, February 16: With Owen Underhill
Wednesday, February 16: For Emily Carr University students
Friday, February 18: With Tony Bosello for art teachers from local high schools
Friday, February 25: With Am Johal
Saturday, February 26: Reception and tour for the Downtown Eastside Women’s Center
