Stan Douglas
dal 29/9/2013 al 29/9/2013
Segnalato da
29/9/2013
Stan Douglas
Wiels - Contemporary Art Center, Bruxelles
The artist will talk about the relationship of his work with theory
Stan Douglas will talk about his work, and more specifically about its relationship with theory. The lecture will be followed by a discussion with Eric C.H. de Bruyn (Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Leiden University). Since the late 1980s, Stan Douglas has created films, photographs, and installations that reexamine particular locations or past events. His works often take their points of departure in local settings, from which broader issues can be identified. Making frequent use of new as well as outdated technologies, Douglas appropriates existing Hollywood genres (including murder mysteries and the Western) and borrows from classic literary works (notably Samuel Beckett, Herman Melville, and Franz Kafka) to create ready-made contextual frameworks for his complex, thoroughly researched projects. Free entrance.