Clive Holden

Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop's University, Sherbrooke

Holden works with moving images in three forms: fixed films and videos, performance and installation. Utopia Suite Disco is about dancing to the beat of our hopes and fears to create movement as both figurative and literal progress towards Utopianism.

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curated by Vicky Chainey Gagnon

The late seventies. What are our collective, semi subconscious, memories of that post-hippy (utopian), pre-punk (dystopian), pivotal era? And what would Thomas More have thought of us? Would he have been in mourning for the death of hippy hope? Would he be celebrating the birth of punk pragmatism? In 1977, would he have sunk into a funk, or would he have donned a white suit and learned how to dance? – Clive Holden

Clive Holden is a multi-disciplinary artist and author who works with moving images in three forms: fixed films and videos, performance and installation. Utopia Suite Disco is about dancing to the beat of our hopes and fears to create movement as both figurative and literal progress towards Utopianism. A light tent is filled with projections of utopian heroes such as JFK, Martin Luther King, John Lennon and James Joyce. A dance floor is provided for the viewer to dance to a three-part disco suite by composer Oscar Van Dillen, a Rotterdam-based composer.
Join us for a lecture-performance with the artist at 5:30 pm
Ciné-club: visit our website for updates

Clive Holden is an artist, filmmaker and writer originally from Victoria, B.C. now living and working in Toronto. Holden has exhibited at the Anthology Film Archives (New York, USA), the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (Victoria, Canada), le Festival international du film sur l’art (Montreal, Canada), Kosmopolis Festa Internacional de la Literatura (Barcelona, Spain) and the Festival di Palazzo Venezia (Rome, Italy). He has lectured for Kino Arsenal (Berlin, Germany), Holland Festival (Amsterdam, Holland), and the Images Festival (Toronto, Canada). The accompanying book for Trains of Winnipeg was short-listed for both Manitoba Book of the Year and Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award in 2003.

Opening - wednesday January 30th 2008 from 5:00 to 7:00

Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop's University
Rue College Street - Lennoxville
Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, from 12 noon to 5 pm (and all evenings of presentation at Centennial Theatre).

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Two exhibitions
dal 9/9/2014 al 5/12/2014