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2006
//Reclaiming Narrative
Art, Dialogue, Interaction, Community
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In the summer of 2006, the Alternator hosted a visiting artist-in-residency project titled Reclaiming Narrative.
The project investigated the cross-disciplinary potential between stories and contemporary art. Several shared characteristics of these disciplines acted as a bridge in the context of this initiative to create new and innovative forms of work. First was the possibility of incorporating accessible, everyday source material into a project to convey broader meanings. Second was the communal nature of exchange between artist and audience.
September 2006
//Reclaiming Narrative
Heather-Marie Davis
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Heather-Marie Davis interviews community members of varying backgrounds to learn about their interactions with and knowledge of African descendants in the Okanagan.
Davis, a multimedia artist based in Philadelphia, has an MA in Arts Administration from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and teaches at Cheyney University in Pennsylvania. Davis has exhibited and curated throughout the United States.
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August 2006
//Reclaiming Narrative
June Pak
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June Pak performs Paint Job, a performance piece that investigates identity through location.
Pak grew up in Seoul, and is now based in Toronto. Pak has an MFA from the University of Windsor and teaches at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ont., and the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto. A multidisciplinary artist in video, audio and digital imaging, Pak has exhibited nationally in Halifax, Calgary, Windsor, and Toronto and internationally in Palestine, Italy, the Netherlands, the United States and Great Britain. Pak's work investigates the self as situated in the realm of transit between the reality of technology and culture.
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July 2006
//Reclaiming Narrative
Patrice Duhamel, D. Kimm
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Patrice Duhamel and D. Kimm interview and film local people whose lives have developed in unusual ways in order to construct scenes of disparate and poetic fragments, giving a voice to the poetry of their everyday lives.
D. Kimm, a multidisciplinary artist from Montréal, is artistic director of Les Filles électriques whose mandate is to create and produce interdisciplinary events and works of oral, written and electronic literature.
Patrice Duhamel, an MFA candidate at Concordia University, works with video, drawing, improvised music and critical writing. His installations, mixing video and constellations of drawings, have been presented in solo shows in Québec and group exhibitions in Europe.
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June 2006
//Reclaiming Narrative
Gabriel Bizen Akagawa
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Gabriel Bizen Akagawa explores narratives through paper waste, seeking to encourage awareness of environmental issues.
Akagawa, an instructor at the School of the Art institute of Chicago, has exhibited his work at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and other venues in the United States.
For more information, go to ballution.blogspot.com.
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