A Wake: Still Lives and Moving Images November 4, 2012

'A Wake: Still Lives and Moving Images' combines, video, cinema and photography in a co-mingling of media which bring the still into motion, and the motion into emotion. In the tradition of inviting the dead to a party with the living, we crowd the gallery with the conversations of flickering ghosts; a saturation of images in dialogue with one another. Reflecting upon our daily inundation by images of death, where news programs sensationalize death no less than the fictions of TV shows and feature films, "A Wake" addresses the media as the Vale of Tears, the surface between now, the past and the hereafter. The exhibition is a conversation across mediums and generations to celebrate life as well as death. The works in this show all use video, digital media, and film to address the mediation of death; where media itself becomes the vale/veil through which we pass, the translucent surface between observer and observed, between now and the hereafter. All the works in the exhibition manipulate media forms in some way: by mobilizing still images into motion, by bringing together past and present, fiction and reality, re-editing found footage, re-visiting rituals, or by re-living the horrors of war.