Dark suggestive spaces full of embodied memory: Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller will provide an overview of their works and practice, ...
Dark suggestive spaces full of embodied memory: Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller will provide an overview of their works and practice, focusing on the exhibition Lost in the Memory Palace, a selected survey exhibition opening June 20th, 2014 at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Lost in the Memory Palace takes as its focus ‘the room,’ with a selection of Cardiff and Miller's work from the mid-1990s to today, presenting key early installations such as The Dark Pool (1995) and The Muriel Lake Incident (1999) and recent works including The Killing Machine (2007) and Experiment in F# Minor (2013). The exhibition offers an opportunity to consider the room as a metaphor in Cardiff and Miller’s work, as an offering shelter from a stormy world, a place to withdraw and to convalesce; or a site of mystery and danger, and in some instances, of death. nnJanet Cardiff (b. 1957, Brussels, Ontario, Canada) and George Bures Miller (b. 1960, Vegreville, Alberta, Canada) create immersive multimedia works usually involving sound. nnRecent solo exhibitions include, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin; Luhring Augustine, New York; The Hamburger Banhoff Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin; Modern Art Oxford; The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; The Miami Art Museum; The Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona; and Mathildenhöhe, Darmstatdt.nnThey were participants in dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany, presenting 2 new works. Additionally, their work has been presented by several major institutions, including MOMA, New York; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; The Tate Modern, London; San Francisco MOMA; Artangel, London; Public Art Fund, New York; Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Japan; and Inhotim Contemporary Art, Brasil. nnRepresenting Canada at the 2001 Venice Biennale, Cardiff and Miller received the Biennale's Premio Speciale (Special Prize) as well as The 4th Benesse Prize. More recently they received the 2008 Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award and in 2011 the Akademie der Kunste awarded them the Kathe Kollwitz Prize. nnCardiff and Miller live and work in British Columbia, Canada and Berlin, Germany.Lost in the Memory Palace: Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller is organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Ontario and curated by Bruce Grenville, Senior Curator and Kitty Scott, AGO Curator, Modern & Contemporary Art.nnThis talk is presented in conjunction with the exhibition 'Lost in the Memory Palace: Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller' June 21 to September 21, 2014. Less
