Stan Douglas April 20, 2007

Projections
A major survey of projection-based installations in the history of contemporary art in Canada 1964-2007

In conjunction with Projections, an exhibition on the history of projection-based installations in Canada, the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery is pleased to announce a lecture by internationally celebrated artist Stan Douglas.

The lecture will take place on Friday, April 20, at 8 pm, at the University of Toronto (University College, Lecture Hall 140).

Stan Douglas, who was born in 1960 in Vancouver and studied at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design, is recognized as one of the most important artists internationally. He has participated in major solo and group shows in some of the world’s most prestigious galleries and museums, including the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), the DIA Center of the Arts and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), as well as in the context of Munster Sculpture Projects, Documenta (1992, 1997, and 2002) and the Venice Biennale (1990, 2001, 2005).

As no other artist, Stan Douglas has helped to define and shape the very history of film and video installation – through his writings, curatorial projects and most of all his own work. Drawing on a vast archive of cultural history – from literature, music, film and television – Douglas employs the cinematic apparatus to interrogate modes of representation from the vantage of specific geographies on the edges of official history and modernity, such as Cuba, Detroit, Vancouver, and often British Columbia, including Nootka Sound and the Cariboo Mountains.

Stan Douglas, together with Chris Eamon (Public Art Trust/Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection), curated the exhibition “Beyond Cinema: The Art of Projection” organized by the Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin) in the fall of 2006, and is preparing for his first major survey exhibition in Germany at the Wurttembergisher Kunstverein Stuttgart and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart in September 2007.

Lecture Location:
University College is located at the north side of King’s College Circle, 15 King’s College circle. Lecture Hall 140 is in the north-east corner of University College, adjacent to the University of Toronto Art Centre.

The lecture is made possible with the financial support of the Canada Council, and is co-sponsored by the University of Toronto Visual Studies Program, the Department of Visual Arts, York University, and the Faculty of Art, Ontario College of Art and
Design.

Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto
7 Hart House Circle, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H3
Tel 416-978-8398 www.utoronto.ca/gallery