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November
1, 2006 - May 31, 2007 / The Interior: Cédric Debeaumarché,
Tonia Di Risio, Matthias Hederer, Alana Kakoyiannis, Shana Moulton,
and Holly Schmidt.
The
Interior—that which lies between, the domestic,
the inner life, the indoors, the inland country, a closed circuit,
the inner sanctum…
Click on a video still for more details about the video and artist.
In
Canada, the Interior refers to the hinterland, sparsely
populated resource-rich lands stretching out to the north of
distant southern cities, typically described by outsiders as
a ‘frontier’. Despite a southern population huddling
mostly along the Canada-U.S. border, the soul of Canada is often
said to be its north. With this loosely in mind, I put out an
open call for submissions for videos that responded to 'the
Interior.' Despite the subtle reference to Canadian geography,
I wasn’t looking for fist-pumping Canadian nationalism.
In this series,
six artists explore the Interior as an idea, a vast terra
incognita stretching out across the land, the body, and the
mind, a swath of territory defined apart, but intrinsic to the
whole. Touching on both the literal and the poetic, these videos
take me inwards.
Mark Prier.
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Exhibition Publication, .PDF format]
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