Date: Saturday, August 01, 2009
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: SAW Gallery
Cost: Pay-What-You-Can
Contact Info: sawprogramming@artengine.ca
Animal House: Works of Art Made by Animals / Œuvres d’art réalisées par des animaux
August 1 – September 26, 2009 / Du 1er août au 26 septembre 2009
Curator / Commissaire : Stefan St-Laurent
Curatorial Assistant / Assistante du commissaire : Verena Au
Artists / Artistes : Phong + Ramona (elephants / éléphants, Maesa Elephant Camp, Chiang Mai, Thailand / Thaïlande), Congo (chimpanzee / chimpanzé, London, England / Londres, Angleterre), Fuchs + Bellos (cat and dog / chat et chien, Scheuerhof Wittlich, Scheuerhof, Germany / Allemagne), Koko (gorilla / gorille, sanctuary / sanctuaire, Maui, Hawaii), Tilda +Sita (orangutans / orangs-outans, Krefelder Zoo, Krefeld, Germany / Allemagne), Nappakhao + Sela (elephants / éléphants, Asian Elephant Art and Conservation Project, Indonesia / Indonésie +Thailand / Thaïlande), Tillamook Cheddar (dog / chien, Brooklyn, NY), Washoe (chimpanzee / chimpanzé, Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute, Washoe County, NV), Kamala (elephant / éléphant, Calgary Zoo, Calgary), Carolee Schneemann, Cluny, Kitch + Vesper (artist and her cats / artiste et ses chats, New Paltz, NY), + Julie Andreyev + Tom (artist and her dog / artiste et son chien, Vancouver), Garry-Lewis James Osterberg (Toronto)
The exhibition will include bird nests, audio and video documentation and a collaborative operatic video by artist Julie Andreyev and her dog Tom (Vancouver) and collaborative works by acclaimed American artist Carolee Schneemann and her cats Kitch, Cluny and Vesper. Although the exhibition will be playful in its approach, the main objective of Animal House is to focus on questions around animal creativity versus exploitation, while highlighting animal creativity in the natural world and collaborations between human artists and their pet companions.
The opening will include an artist talks by Julie Andreyev (Vancouver), Joanne Bristol (Winnipeg) and Carolee Schneemann (New Paltz, NY) at 8PM. /
A special Family Preview will happen on the same day from noon to 5PM. Un pré-vernissage pour les familles se déroulera de midi à 17 h.
Pay-What-You-Can / Contribution volontaire
Funders / Subventionneurs : Canada Council for the Arts / Le Conseil des Arts du Canada, City of Ottawa / La ville d’Ottawa + Ontario Arts Council / Le Conseil des arts de l’Ontario.
Partners / Partenaires : Capital Xtra, Asian Elephant Art & Conservation Project, Novica / National Geographic, Patrick Gordon Framing, Steam Whistle Brewing + SpaceMan Music.
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