Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War
January 17th to March 2nd, 2008
Opening Reception
Wednesday January 16th
5 to 7 pm at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery
6 to 9 pm at the Blackwood Gallery
A free shuttle bus will depart from Hart House at 7pm and return at 9pm
Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War is an inter-disciplinary project exploring contemporary art’s relationship to war and its representations. A collaboration between the Blackwood Gallery (University of Toronto at Mississauga) and the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Hart House, University of Toronto), this project includes an exhibition of seventeen international artists at two university gallery locations, a forty-day film/video program, a catalogue, and a public symposium.
Investigating the interstices between perpetual war, dominant politics, and military aesthetics, this project confronts issues of global warfare, how it is imaged, and how it is imagined. Curated by Séamus Kealy, the exhibition presents artists who are responding to these representations of war through informed critique. While a number of artists produce analyses or outraged expressions arising from their own or others’ experiences of war, other artists challenge the spectacle of contemporary war, its veracity and, ultimately, its intertwinement with a New World Order.
Exhibition:
Maja Bajević (Bosnia)
January 17th to March 2nd, 2008
Opening Reception
Wednesday January 16th
5 to 7 pm at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery
6 to 9 pm at the Blackwood Gallery
A free shuttle bus will depart from Hart House at 7pm and return at 9pm
Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War is an inter-disciplinary project exploring contemporary art’s relationship to war and its representations. A collaboration between the Blackwood Gallery (University of Toronto at Mississauga) and the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Hart House, University of Toronto), this project includes an exhibition of seventeen international artists at two university gallery locations, a forty-day film/video program, a catalogue, and a public symposium.
Investigating the interstices between perpetual war, dominant politics, and military aesthetics, this project confronts issues of global warfare, how it is imaged, and how it is imagined. Curated by Séamus Kealy, the exhibition presents artists who are responding to these representations of war through informed critique. While a number of artists produce analyses or outraged expressions arising from their own or others’ experiences of war, other artists challenge the spectacle of contemporary war, its veracity and, ultimately, its intertwinement with a New World Order.
Exhibition:
Maja Bajević (Bosnia)
Omer Fast (Israel/USA)
Annie MacDonell (Canada)
Annie MacDonell (Canada)
Dominique Blain (Canada)
Kendell Geers (South Africa)
Kendell Geers (South Africa)
Anri Sala (Albania)
Bureau d'etudes (France)
Bureau d'etudes (France)
Johan Grimonprez (Belgium)
Sonja Savić (Serbia)
Sonja Savić (Serbia)
Paul Chan (USA)
Jamelie Hassan (Canada)
Jamelie Hassan (Canada)
Sean Snyder (USA/Germany)
Köken Ergun (Turkey)
Köken Ergun (Turkey)
Kristan Horton (Canada)
Ron Terada (Canada)
Ron Terada (Canada)
Harun Farocki (Germany)
Abdel-Karim Khalil (Iraq)
Symposium (Friday January 25th): Expanding the subject of the exhibition, the symposium includes WJT Mitchell (University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA), Stephen Eisenman (Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA), Boris Groys (ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany), Brigitte van der Sande (Independent Curator, Netherlands), and Allan Harding MacKay (Artist, Canada).
A free shuttle bus will depart from Hart House at 1pm and return at 8pm
Catalogue: To be released at the symposium event, the catalogue includes illustrations of the artworks as well as essays on art, war, and representations of terror by Boris Groys, Séamus Kealy, Gene Ray, and Brigitte van der Sande.
Film/Video Program: Twenty-five films and videos by international artists and directors will be presented at both galleries throughout the exhibition.
All programming and events are free of admission.
To reserve a seat on the shuttle buses, please call the Blackwood Gallery at 905-828-3789
Support generously provided by The Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council, The Connaught Committee, University of Toronto, The Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto, The Centre for Studies of the United States, The Institute of Communication and Culture, Office of the Vice-Principal/Research (UTM), The Centre for Visual and Media Culture, The Ontario Trillium Foundation, UTM Residence Life, Consulate-General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and Goethe-Institut
For more information, please visit http://www.blackwoodgallery.ca/
Blackwood Gallery3359 Mississauga Rd. N.,
Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6
Tel: (905) 828-3789
Abdel-Karim Khalil (Iraq)
Symposium (Friday January 25th): Expanding the subject of the exhibition, the symposium includes WJT Mitchell (University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA), Stephen Eisenman (Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA), Boris Groys (ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany), Brigitte van der Sande (Independent Curator, Netherlands), and Allan Harding MacKay (Artist, Canada).
A free shuttle bus will depart from Hart House at 1pm and return at 8pm
Catalogue: To be released at the symposium event, the catalogue includes illustrations of the artworks as well as essays on art, war, and representations of terror by Boris Groys, Séamus Kealy, Gene Ray, and Brigitte van der Sande.
Film/Video Program: Twenty-five films and videos by international artists and directors will be presented at both galleries throughout the exhibition.
All programming and events are free of admission.
To reserve a seat on the shuttle buses, please call the Blackwood Gallery at 905-828-3789
Support generously provided by The Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council, The Connaught Committee, University of Toronto, The Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto, The Centre for Studies of the United States, The Institute of Communication and Culture, Office of the Vice-Principal/Research (UTM), The Centre for Visual and Media Culture, The Ontario Trillium Foundation, UTM Residence Life, Consulate-General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and Goethe-Institut
For more information, please visit http://www.blackwoodgallery.ca/
Blackwood Gallery3359 Mississauga Rd. N.,
Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6
Tel: (905) 828-3789
Fax: (905) 569-4262
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