Through the media of photography, performance and video, the group exhibition Auto/Pathographies addresses questions of identity and (self-)representation in the face of physical illness. Bringing together works from artists based in Canada, the U.S., Britain and Austria, produced from the 1990s until today, the exhibition offers both sensitive and critical perspectives on the roles played by disease in redefining individual existences, as well as interpersonal relations. With each of the artworks presented in Auto/Pathographies, sickness is transformed into a site of active aesthetic, political, and even metaphysical inquiry -- one whose interest ultimately extends well beyond that of the individual subject’s narrative.
Artists: Carl Bouchard, Pascal Dufaux, Chantal Dupont, Angela Ellsworth and Tina Takemoto, Christina Lammer, Susan Markisz, Pam Patterson, Jo Spence, Jo Spence / Terry Dennett
Read Jolene Pozniak's review of the exhibition in No More Potlucks (or download .pdf here)
Aural Cinemas, co-curated with Stéphane Montavon - eikones - Basel
March 19 to April 16, 2009
Conceived as a companion piece to the Bild, Stimme II: Figuren des Audiovisuellen conference, Aural Cinemas features a constellation of audio pieces by 12 contemporary artists,each implicating different forms of voice/image interactions. Alternatively privileging orality, narrative, the medium of radio or telecommunications devices, electroacoustic composition, and soundscapes derived from field recordings, the works in Aural Cinemas offer a palette of contemporary sound practices to enrich our theoretical discussions of voice and image. The audio works, accessed through 4 listening stations available to the visitor with a total of 8 programs, are complemented by images from Oscar Wiggli’s Sound Lavis and a screening of John Oswald’s Homonomy.
Artists: Gilles AUBRY, Christian CALON, Chantal DUMAS, Anna FRIZ, Gilles GOBEIL, Brandon LABELLE, Eric LEONARDSON, Emmanuel MADAN, Christof MIGONE, Robert NORMANDEAU, John OSWALD, Oscar WIGGLI
