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  • Re-presentations, Adaptations, and VARIATIONS

     Canadian artist Michael Snow once described his own experiments with moving images as an attempt “to make a definitive statement of pure Film space and time, a balancing of...

  • Re-presentations, Adaptations, and VARIATIONS

    Although it is actually quite boring and reductive to do so, we still tend to cling to the idea of an artwork as a unique, singular, and exclusive...

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  • Re-presentations, Adaptations, and VARIATIONS

    For instance, in one of VARIATIONS’ most literal iterations of re-presentation, Stephen Broomer and Stuart Broomer re-create at least two (if not more) of Snow’s works including his 1960 Lac Clair[https://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=7267] painting with their...

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  • Re-presentations, Adaptations, and VARIATIONS

    Similarly, though less literally, the first 1:45 of Evangeline Belzile and Ian William Craig’s Untitled in VARIATIONS looks a bit like a moving re-presentation of Snow’s 1965 Test Focus Field Figure[http://www.paraethos.com/images/test-focus.jpg] painting, with its three ‘test-takes’ of...

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  • Re-presentations, Adaptations, and VARIATIONS

    Snow’s works and methods are re-presented and re(-)ferenced both aesthetically and formally throughout VARIATIONS. Dan Browne and Steve Richman’s Poem riffs on Snow’s concerns for framing by transcribing some of his experiments with...

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  • Re-presentations, Adaptations, and VARIATIONS

    Although conceived by Templeton as a project in its entirety, each of the works in VARIATIONS stand alone as a meditation on a particular word, grouping of words, feeling, or narrative...