‘Tis the season for art gallery openings!
What are your plans for this dreary Friday evening? Why not brighten up your world by visiting one or all of these fine art events?
Margerit Roger’s “Icarus: Revisited” Exhibition
The Edge Gallery (210-611 Main Street)
7-9 PM
The tragedy of Icarus is usually told as a cautionary tale warning of the folly of ‘flying too high’. But, was the folly in the height of the flight, or in relying on another’s wings? And does the tragedy lie only in the senseless death of Icarus for the sake of Daedalus’ pride, or do we hear in the story the sound of our own frail wings?
Sound + Vision Crossroads: Opening Reception
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Arts (1-460 Portage Avenue)
7-10 PM
Popular music accompanies or is constitutive of some of our most meaningful and widely shared cultural moments. The ecstatic potential of rock music provides a space to exceed standardized terms of representation, language and control.
The artists in Sound + Vision: Crossroads explore the intersections of music, contemporary film and video, and post-conceptual art. Rather than staging a meeting of isolated fields of cultural production (music and art), Sound and Vision: Crossroads seeks to trouble the autonomy of art, music and film, and the singular identities of artist / musician / filmmaker. More than an exercise in juxtaposition, translation or transposition, this exhibition offers a complex matrix of sound, image, signal, noise, and meaning.
The accumulation of knowledge, emotion, and physical experience in art / music / film can exceed the boundaries of language and knowledge management.
These notions might provide a forum for the social construction of space.
The crossroads of sound and vision push the limits of cultural transformation, in ways that we may implicate the excesses of the human body as a conduit and agent in radicalizing social practice.
A Child’s View of Gaza: Cross Canada Art Exhibition
Atomic Centre (167 Logan Avenue)
8 PM
Palestinian children’s art raises awareness of violence, children’s trauma in Gaza
Exhibit artists — Palestinian children, ranging in age from seven to fourteen — produced all featured works after art therapy classes for youth suffering from trauma, depression and stress disorders brought about by the horrors of the Gaza Massacre (December 27, 2008-January 18, 2009).
The children’s uncensored works candidly portray the pain they experience living under military occupation and daily, collective punishment by the Government of Israel and its Israeli Defence Forces (IDF).
“These scenes depict oppression, violence, bloodshed, militarism, destruction and chaos,” states local art show organizer and Canpalnet –Winnipeg member Erin Bockstael.
“We welcome people to come and see how these images affect them. Is this dangerous propaganda or dangerous oppression? Are we seeing an unfair portrayal of Israel or of a profoundly unfair apartheid system?” asks Bockstael.
