Gallery Connexion welcomes Halifax based artist Suzanne Caines for a residency starting July 12 until August 7, 2010. Caines will install previously completed work in the gallery for the month of July as she works on completing a new body of work to be exhibited in the month of August. During her residency Caines will work in one of Gallery Connexion’s studio spaces.
Caines has proposed to extend a performative video piece she made this year called Romance in China. The original piece was filmed in Beijing, China (2009) where Caines approached strangers in the park and quoted love lines from Western movies. For her residency at Gallery Connexion this summer, Caines will re-create a new piece by sitting next to strangers in a park in Fredericton and reciting the same love lines to them. She is interested to see how the responses differ between Beijing and Fredericton. The final piece will be two videos screened side-by-side. Both pieces will play simultaneously, however the sound will drop in and out depending on the scene. This will allow the audience to compare the two pieces. One projected video will be Romance in China and the other video will consist of the newly created documentation made in Fredericton.
“I am interested in how the actual location of my interaction changes the meaning of my performances. Will the locale of in Fredericton, New Brunswick change the meaning and possibly the authenticity of my work compared to China? I am also interested in how the viewer judges an authentic moment. My work will posit that the geography of the encounter will disrupt the meaning of each encounter.”
- Suzanne Caines, 2010
More Info
Artist Residency: July 13 to August 7, 2010
Artist Talk: July 29 at 7pm
Exhibition Opening: August 5, 7 to 9pm
Exhibition: August 5 to 31, 2010
Suzanne Caines graduated with her Masters of Arts (Fine Arts) from Chelsea College, the London Institute in 2004. Caines has held several solo exhibits and has participated in group exhibitions and festivals in public galleries in North America and Europe. These include Trampoline, Berlin Germany, Reception Space/Meals and SUV’s, London, England, The Projection Gallery, Liverpool, England, The Nunnery Gallery, London, England, Transmediale 2006, Berlin, Germany and VertexList Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, Optica, Montreal, Quebec and MSVU Gallery, Halifax Nova Scotia. Caines has received several Canada Council Grants, Nova Scotia Arts Grants and has participated in several international residencies including CAMAC Marnay Sur Seine, France, The Future Idea of Art, The Banff Center, Alberta, local artist in residence at CFAT, Nova Scotia, Binaural, Portugal and Red Gate, China. She is currently teaching part-time at NSCAD University and exploring the potential for producing new works and understanding the world through the “constructed situations” that she organizes.
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