Stan Douglas
dal 8/6/2010 al 8/6/2010
Segnalato da
8/6/2010
Stan Douglas
Guggenheim Museum, New York
The artist speaks in part of an ongoing series of artist talks that provide insight into artists' creative process
The artist speaks in part of an ongoing series of artist talks that provide insight into artists' creative process, with a private exhibition viewing of Haunted and reception to follow. Douglas (b. 1960, Vancouver) utilizes forms of popular entertainment -cinema and television- to destabilize narratives that depict society as a unified, homogeneous front with one history, one set of desires, and one value system. The film installation Der Sandmann (1995) investigates the intersection of history and memory as witnessed against the backdrop of post-Cold War Germany. Shot on 16mm film and projected as two separate but intersecting videos that show a community garden in use during the 1960s and as a construction site some 20 years later, Der Sandmann contemplates temporality and the transformative effects of history.