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| Locating is the 8th Annual Exhibition of Site-specific installations @ The Tree Museum, curated by E.J. Lightman and has been organized around 3 individual projects by artists who are connected by their interest in and use of movement in their work.
Contemporary sculpture in its widest context is most often characterised by breaching conventional bounds in the fields of operation and material selection, Nancy Paterson, Barry Prophet and John Dickson, have been transgressing boundaries most of their professional lives. The work in Location is spread conceptually and stylistically between performance and sculpture these works trace the archaeology of a back stage and a location set in a thorough investigation of poetics of artificiality and illusion. For all three artists the Location -the Tree Museum site becomes a dominant agency for strategies of exposure and change. |
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2005 Exhibition |
Locating |
Curated by E.J. Lightman |
opening Sunday September 25, 2005 |
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John Dickson
John Dickson, best known for his kinetic sculpture, moves away from his current practice in "Lodge", but not far. Taking his cue from nature and using found materials, (water- a central element in his previous work integrating it, working in it, referring to it ) is still central to this new work. Located in what might be termed an inner courtyard, a large outcropping of Pre-Cambrian shield, far removed from the water's edge, Dickson has created a whimsical people size beaver lodge - a homage to one of nature's great architects of water structures. |
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Nancy Paterson
Nancy Paterson is a leader in the field of interactive installations, video installations, immersive environments and internet-interactive mediaworks. For her installation at the Tree Museum she makes a complete 380-degree turn. In Not Waving, Drowning Paterson moves from electronic digital movement to the Illusion of movement and use of material and function which constitutes an independent thread in the complex fabric of her work |
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Barry Prophet
Barry Prophet is a composer, percussionist, and sculptor whose music has appeared in galleries and theatres including the Tree Museum. Like Dickson, Prophet chooses an inner space as a stage for his sound sculptures A Gathering of Quivers and performance. Like Dickson and Paterson, the Location becomes an opportunity and the basis for experimentation, for operating with new meaning of the material, the rock and the trees woven into and becoming a central part of his sound instruments |
| The Tree Museum Collective gratefully acknowledges the support of The Canada Council for the Arts & the Ontario Arts Council. |