As I write this post, I am listening to a mix of the ethereal and surreal sounds comprising the soundtrack to Stan Douglas’s Suspiria installation from the 1995 Venice Biennale, courtesy of the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center’s WPS1 Internet radio station. I am listening to this because tickets are now on sale for a lecture by Stan Douglas at the Henry on April 26 at 7 PM, hosted by the University of Washington’s School of Art.
If you are not familiar with this Vancouver-based artist’s work, there is an excellent article in April’s Art in America discussing Douglas’s recent exhibitions at New York’s Studio Museum and David Zwirner Gallery and that work’s unusual examination of the relationships between time, difference, and memory. In the article, Nancy Princenthal discusses how his photographs of 2004/2005 Cuba break away from the more romantic understandings of idealism and broken promises associated with the “re-purposed sites” they capture and instead emphasize a more Dada-esque separation of objects that allows for a more complete understanding of the places he documents.
Tickets to what is sure to be a fascinating lecture by Douglas may be purchased ($10 general / $8 members) with a Visa or MasterCard by calling the Henry 206.616.9894. A service charge of $1 is charged on each order. Tickets will be sent up to four days before the date of the event.
Stan Douglas. Klatassin. 2007. Video. Courtesy of the artist.
Suspiria, yes?
Yes (typo)! Thank you.