Stan Douglas April 19, 2006

La primavera la sangre altera... y Stan Douglas est? aqu?!

AGYU, S?!

Inconsolable Memories is the latest in Vancouver artist Stan Douglas' recombinant narrative projections. Basing his double-projection film on Cuban filmmaker Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's 1968 Memories of Underdevelopment, Douglas updates the original from its Bay of Pigs era to the Mariel expulsions and uses Alea's flashback structure as the basis of his double projection, mimicking, as well, Alea's mixing of documentary and fictional footage. The exhibition opens with a public reception on 19 April 2006, from 6 to 9 pm and will continue until 25 June 2006.

Bienvenito en AGYU se?or Douglas...

One of the new AGYU galleries will be devoted to the film installation; the other will exhibit Douglas' large-scale colour photographs of the re-purposed buildings of Havana and surroundings. A catalogue with essays by Sven Lütticken and Philip Monk is available.

Vamos Mes Amigos!!
Ride the performance bus, the AGYU's unique performance venue, to the opening reception of Stan Douglas: Inconsolable Memories with artist, writer, and curator LUIS JACOB!

Quien lengua ha, a Roma va!!
The bus will depart from the AGO (corner of Dundas and McCaul St., Toronto) at 6 pm sharp (por favor sé punctual!), en route to the AGYU where Stan Douglas and Director Philip Monk will be in conversation about Douglas' new Cuba project.

Besos para Images Festival!!
Take the performance bus back downtown with curator and film scholar Susan Lord as she primes you for But it is not the end: The Experimental Ethnography Nicolás Guillén Landrián screening at the Cinematheque Ontario beginning at 9 pm.

(P.S. ... Don't worry Luis is going to help you learn Spanish while on the bus!)

Hola Contact '06!!
Join us on Sunday, 7 May at 2 pm for a tour of Stan Douglas: Inconsolable Memories with Director Philip Monk, part of this year's Contact Toronto Photography Festival. A free bus departs from the Drake Hotel (corner of Beaconsfield and Queen St. W., Toronto) at 1 pm and will return downtown at 4 pm.

Inconsolable Memories is a co-production of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver and the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. The exhibition is presented with the generous financial support of Rogers Communications Inc.

The Art Gallery of York University is a university-affiliated, public, contemporary art gallery supported by York University, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.

The AGYU is located in the Accolade East Building, 4700 Keele Street,Toronto. Gallery hours are: Monday to Friday, 10 am-4 pm; Wednesday, 10am-8 pm; Sunday from noon-5 pm; and Saturday, sadly, we are closed. Admission to everything is free.

www.yorku.ca/agyu