Staats will discuss his multidisciplinary practice and the works on display for 'Song of the Open Road'
Date/Time: Apr 4 2017, 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Vancouver, Contemporary Art Gallery | Event calendarAge: all
Cost: Free
Greg Staats, Kanien'kehá:ka (b. Ohsweken, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory) is a Toronto-based artist whose works combine language, mnemonics and the natural world as an ongoing process of conceptualizing a Haudenosaunee restorative aesthetic to define the multiplicity of relationships with trauma and renewal. For 'Song of the Open Road' Staats’ installation 'untitled (objects of reciprocal thinking)' (2014) brings together images and objects from personal and community archives that offer intellectual and aesthetic interpretation of body and ceremony.
'Song of the Open Road'
Vikky Alexander, Robert Arndt, Gerard Byrne, Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn, Kelly Jazvac, Kelly Lycan, Niamh O’Malley, Dawit L. Petros, Greg Staats and Lisa Tan
Presented in partnership with Capture Photography Festival, 2017
Taking its title from a poem by Walt Whitman, the Contemporary Art Gallery presents a group exhibition as the central feature of this year’s Capture Photography Festival.
Bringing together ten artists from Canada, Eritrea, Ireland, Sweden and USA, the exhibition presents an expanded field of photographic practice encompassing still, documentary traditions through to digital technologies and moving image, which through black-and-white silver gelatin prints, digital printouts from Internet searches and found archive materials, collectively examine notions of what you see is most definitely not what you get.
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