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Cool Art Across Canada Daily Arts Alert ... by Cathleen Bond Monday, Jan. 8 Canadians know Mina Shum for her impressive debut feature film, Double Happiness and its subsequent follow up Drive She Said. However the Vancouver director is turning her lens on video installation and in her first project You Are What You Eat.
You Are What You Eat started off as a documentary film, but morphed into a video installation. Shum claims that her project is "not a narrative. It is non-linear and abstract." To achieve this, Shum has the "audience walks through a 3D environment as if moving around inside the body and memory of the artist. Video projections, mirrors and computer screens are experienced simultaneously." She claims, "You are the information. How you process is part of the piece." I hope Shum takes her show on the road. I'm becoming a huge fan of video installation and it would be interesting to see how she handles her lofty thematic within the video format. If you see the show, please drop us a line. We'd love to get your impressions.
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Fassler and Prokop lifted clips from four top television shows: Friends, Dawson's Creek, Party of Five and Felicity. To hear the conversations, you have to stand between the two boxes. What happens is one box speaks and the other box answers. Wow, imagine Neve Campbell AND Matthew Perry talking to you at the same time! Fassler and Prokop (who both live in Berlin, Germany and have a lot of experience in public performance and installation art), hope that the show illustrates the contrived and banal nature of North American TV. Or it could create a whole new interactive way to pig out on the telly.
until Jan. 20 Access Artist Run Centre Vancouver (604) 689-2907  The Space of Silence: There's a tongue-in-cheek show on at the Art Gallery of Ontario from the duo known as Instant Coffee. Toronto artists Jinhan Ko and Jenifer Papararo "engage in impromptu projects that take a variety of forms - poetry, projections, design -- and invite the participation of many different artists in the community." For the AGO's Present Tense (an ongoing series of exhibitions of current work by Canadian and international artists), Instant Coffee brings Ko's Urban Disco Trailer to the Present Tense Room at the gallery. The trailer is a seven-foot long, mid-1960s pop up tent trailer that acts as rolling discotheque. Within the roof of the Urban Disco Trailer, Papararo curates three separate exhibitions: the Logo Show, the Miniature Show and the Video Show. In the Logo Show, other artists have been invited to create logos and bumpers stickers for the trailer. Holy disco balls and John Travolta! This sounds like a major homage to the tacky cheese of the 1970s.
Until March 18th Present Tense Room Art Gallery of Ontario (416) 979-6608 Fine Tuning: The Halifax Comedy Festival returns for its fifth season tonight on CBC Television. The funnyman lineup includes Gemini Award-winner Mark Farrell and Emmy and ACE Award-winner Rich Hall, 9 p.m. on CBC TV.
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Shum spent the past five years documenting the lives of herself and her family, asking the questions like "how to live and how to be." Pretty philosophical stuff. To really get to the bottom of her heady inquiry, Shum traveled to mainland China with her parents, met her extended family and visited the cities of Zhaoqing, Chengdu and Guangzhou.
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