Signals
in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War
17 January - 2 March 2008
Opening Reception: Wednesday 16 January 2008
Gallery
Tours:
Join
curator Séamus Kealy in conversation on Signals in the Dark.
Contemporary Art Bus Tours take place on February 3 and 10.
Curator
Tours of Blackwood Gallery
Friday 25 January, 11:00
Sunday 3 February, 12:30
Sunday 10 February, 12:30
Curator
Tours of Justina M. Barnicke Gallery
Sunday 3 February, 15:45
Sunday 10 February, 15:45
Film
& Video Program:
Films
and videos by international artists and directors play for the duration
of the exhibition. Programing ranges from documentaries on art and
culture under the siege of war to reflections on war and violence by
artists. Films and videos play in three locations: the Blackwood Gallery’s
Video Wall (BGVW), the Blackwood Gallery (BG), and the Justina M. Barnicke
Gallery (JMBG). Each gallery also has video stations for private viewing
of additional selected films and videos. All screenings are free and
run continuously during exhibition hours. Video Wall screenings run
from morning until night.
Hanan
Ashrawi,
Arabs and Terrorism, Syria/USA, 2007
BGVW Monday 4 February – Tuesday 5 February
Doug Aubrey, See you in the next war, Scotland,
2001
BGVW Wednesday 16 January – Friday 18 January
BG Thursday 24 January – Wednesday 30 January
JMBG Thursday 7 February – Wednesday 13 February
Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács, Prime
Time Paradise, Netherlands, 2004
BGVW Sunday 10 February – Monday 11 February
Paul Chan, Now Let Us Praise American Leftists,
USA, 2004
BGVW Monday 21 January – Tuesday 22 January
BG Thursday 31 January – Wednesday 6 February
JMBG Thursday 14 February – Wednesday 20 February
Critical Art Ensemble, Immolation and The Making
of Immolation, USA, 2007
JMBG Thursday 24 January – Wednesday 30 January
BG Thursday 14 February – Wednesday 20 February
BGVW Thursday 28 February – Sunday 2 March
Hayder Daffar, The Dream of Sparrows, Iraq,
2005
BGVW Monday 18 February – Wednesday 20 February
Christoph Dräger, Helenes (Apparition of Freedom),
Switzerland, 2004
BGVW Wednesday 23 January – Thursday 24 January
Robert Greenwald, Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers,
USA, 2006
BGVW Saturday 16 February – Sunday 17 February
Ivan Grubanov, A Guy I Know, Serbia, 2002
BGVW Thursday 21 February – Friday 22 February
Allan Harding MacKay, Somalia Yellow, Canada, 1994
BGVW Friday 25 January – Saturday 26 January
Lewis Milestone, All Quiet on the Western Front,
Russia/USA, 1930
BGVW Tuesday 12 February – Wednesday 13 February
Els Opsomer, The Agony of Silence, Belgium,
2004
BGVW Saturday 19 January – Sunday 20 January
Joseph Pevney, “A Taste of Armageddon”
Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 23, USA, 1967
BGVW Thursday 14 February – Friday 15 February
John Pilger, Flying the Flag, Arming the World,
Australia/UK, 1994
BGVW Thursday 7 February
John Pilger, Paying the Price: Killing the Children
of Iraq, Australia/UK, 2000
BGVW Friday 8 February
John Pilger, Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies
in the War on Terror, Australia/UK, 2003
BGVW Saturday 9 February
Walid Ra’ad, Hostage: The Bachar Tapes,
Lebanon, 2001
JMBG Wednesday 16 January – Wednesday 23 January
BG Thursday 21 February – Thursday 28 February
BGVW Saturday 23 February – Wednesday 27 February
Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay & Pascal Lièvre,
Patriotic, Canada/France, 2005
BGVW Saturday 26 January – Monday 28 January
Jayce Salloum, Untitled Part 2: Beauty and the
East, Canada, 2001
BGVW Tuesday 29 January – Wednesday 30 January
Sluik/Kurpershoek, The Devil Hunter, the Netherlands,
2000
BG Wednesday 16 January – Wednesday 23 January
BGVW Thursday 31 January – Friday 1 February
JMBG Thursday 21 February – Thursday 28 February
Guido van der Werve, Suicide no 8945 till 8948, the
Netherlands, 2003
JMBG Thursday 31 January – Wednesday 6 February
BG Thursday 7 February – Wednesday 13 February
Symposium:
Join
us Friday, January 25 for a series of lectures and dialogue on representations
of war, related visual culture, and artists and art projects that confront
the topics of war and geopolitical critique. Produced in collaboration
with the Centre for Visual and Media Culture. Held at the MiST Theatre,
Room 0150, CCT Building, UTM Campus.
Introductions & Welcome 2:15 pm
Louis Kaplan, Director, Institute of Communication and Culture, U of
T
John
Ricco (symposium moderator), Professor, Centre for Visual and Media
Culture, U of T
Keynote
Address 2:30 pm
Professor W.J.T. Mitchell will present a lecture entitled “Cloning
Terror: The War of Images, 9-11 to Abu Ghraib,” in which he will be discussing ideologies
that link fears of cloning with fears of terrorism, in an attempt to
elucidate what he sees as the twin phobias that characterize our current
historical epoch. Mitchell is Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service
professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago. He
is also the editor of Critical Inquiry.
Panel
One 4:00 pm
Allan Harding MacKay, “Double Bind,” Artist, Canada
Brigitte
van der Sande, “Amsterdam at War,” Independent Curator,
the Netherlands
Irene
Loughlin, “The Sun is Crooked in the Sky...,” Graduate Student,
U of T
Panel
Two 6:00 pm
Stephen F. Eisenman, “Water-torture,” Professor of Art History,
Northwestern University, Chicago
Boris
Groys, “Europe and Its Others,” Professor of Aesthetics,
ZKM/Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
Dialogue
7:25 pm
Open dialogue with audience and all participating speakers
A free
shuttle bus from the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Hart House) departs
at 1:00 pmand returns at 8:00 pm.
Catalogue:
A catalogue including documentation of the exhibition’s
artwork and critical essays by Boris Groys, Séamus Kealy, Gene
Ray, and Brigitte van der Sande will be produced in conjunction with
Signals in the Dark.
Additional Events:
In the Valley of Elah
Join us at the AMC Courtney Park for a screening of Paul Haggis's 2007
film as part of the Mississauga Film Series.
Wednesday 30
January, 7:00 pm, AMC Courtney Park 16, 110 Courtney Park Dr., Mississauga.
Admission $10–12.
Activist Video-Making Workshop:
A practical and informative session will introduce
the history, techniques, and trends of activist artwork through video
production. Produced in collaboration with Media Generator, ICC.
Friday 8
February, 2:00 — 4:00, MiST Room 0150, CCT Building, UTM Campus
To
register please contact #905-828-3789
REVIEWS
Andrea
Carson: "Bridging the Gap Between War's Myth & Reality,"
Globe & Mail, R5. Feb 27, 2008
REVIEWS
Leah
Sandals & Séamus Kealy: "Drawing Enemy Lines," National
Post, January 2008
REVIEWS
Peter
Goddard, "Galleries Becoming War Zone," Toronto Star, 3 January
2008
REVIEWS
Fran
Schechter, "War Shows Battle Convention," Now Magazine, January
2008
REVIEWS
Andrea
Grassi, "The Art on War," The Medium, January 2008
