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Exhibitions 2010

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Geoffrey Farmer: God’s Dice
November 13 – December 12, 2010
Exhibition

God’s Dice is a project by Vancouver-based artist Geoffrey Farmer that inverts the typical exhibition format by foregrounding performativity, theatricality, change, and evolution. Reconsidering the supposed neutrality of the gallery space where construction, creative decision, and artistic and curatorial labour are all but invisible, Farmer brings to light an evolving process of creation and experimentation.

Melanie Gilligan: Popular Unrest
August 14 – October 24, 2010
Exhibition

Walter Phillips Gallery presents the North American premiere of London-based artist Melanie Gilligan’s newest film project Popular Unrest. Comprised of a multi-part fictional narrative, Popular Unrest questions the political subjectivity today within the transforming political landscape resulting from the global economic crisis. Rather than take a documentary approach to its subject matter, the film presents surreal, satirical, and disturbing narratives based on the state of politics and the public realm

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The Promotion of a Holiday At School
April 21 – August 29, 2010
Collection

Selected from The Banff Centre's archives, the historical promotional photographs in this exhibition trace a history of the Centre's relationship with its epic environment. From our contemporary perspective, the images appear ironic, overly romantic and naïve, but they are also remarkable resources that offer us insights into our society's relationship with nature, the representation of gender in the art world, the evolution of art education in Canada, and the value of isolation to the artistic process.

Ron Terada: Who I Think I Am
May 15 – July 25, 2010
Exhibition

Inspired by the memoirs of troubled American painter and conceptual artist Jack Goldstein, Ron Terada’s new language-based paintings Jack (2010) narrate a chapter in the life of Goldstein, who met with an untimely death in 2003. Terada’s appropriation continues in Soundtrack for an Exhibition (2010), the latest in an ongoing series of homemade playlists, in this case made especially to accompany the Walter Phillips Gallery presentation. Both are a foil for the Vancouver-based artist’s exploration of contemporary artistic practice and identity.

Ragnar Kjartansson: The End
January 30 – April 18, 2010
Exhibition

Shot in the Rocky Mountains, The End, a highly compelling video installation, depicts two musicians — artist Ragnar Kjartansson and his collaborator Davíð Þór Jónsson — playing folk/country meets experimental music in a frigid, lonely place. Both characters are dressed as northern, Davy Crockett-type frontiersmen, an extreme example of a stereotype that persists and contributes to the countless fictions projected upon the western landscape.

From Head to Toe
Nina Raginsky’s Portraits 1972 – 1977
September 24, 2009 – February 29, 2010
Collection

Throughout the 1970s, Canadian artist Nina Raginsky photographed the residents of Victoria and Vancouver; people she encountered while riding her bicycle. Imbued with the visual iconography of sentiment, these whimsical, willfully nostalgic portraits, which are drawn from The Banff Centre’s permanent collection, reflect the innocence, the awkwardness and the fragility in all of us.