NLIS 3
July 13, 2006
(Tourism, Culture and Recreation)
The following is being distributed at the
request of The Rooms Corporation.
The Rooms celebrates the
opening of first interdisciplinary exhibit titled Intangible Evidence
The Rooms today announced the opening of
its very first cross-divisional, interdisciplinary exhibit titled
Intangible Evidence, opening on July 14. Drawing on the unique
talents of Michael Crummey, Sara Graham, Andy Jones, Alison Norlen, and
Graeme Patterson, Intangible Evidence features five unique installations
that incorporate various historical artifacts and records from the
collections of The Rooms Provincial Archives and Museum, and
imaginatively uses these artifacts to explore creative forms of cultural
research.
Developed through the artist residencies
with The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, Intangible Evidence uses
varying media to explore the documentation of the meanings and stories
that lie beyond the historical objects and archival documents. This
exhibit crosses the genres of drawing, animation, installation, audio,
and text, highlighting the blurred lines of history and memory, fact and
fiction, official and vernacular cultures. Reflecting the diversity of
creative practice as well as artistic forms of cultural research, the
unique experiences of each artist inevitably infuse and have shaped both
their selection of artifacts, as well as the work they have developed in
response those artifacts.
Intangible Evidence
opens Friday July 14, with a public reception at 7:00 p.m.
Curated by Shauna McCabe, director, The
Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, and developed through the collaboration of
The Rooms Provincial Archives and Museum, Intangible Evidence is
presented with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the
Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
For more information, please visit
www.therooms.ca or contact (709) 757-8000.
Media contact: Chrysta Collins, (709)
757-8091.
Biographies
Michael Crummey
Michael Crummey is a full-time writer living in St. John�s. His first
novel, River Thieves, was nominated for the Giller Prize, the
Commonwealth Writer�s Prize, the Amazon First Novel Award, and won the
Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and the Winterset Award. He has written
three books of poetry, a collection of stories and, with photographer
Greg Locke, published Newfoundland: Journey into a Lost Nation in
2004. His most recent novel, The Wreckage, was nominated for the
Rogers/Writers� Trust Fiction Prize and the Bennington Gate Fiction
Award.
Sara Graham
Artist Sara Graham's work has centered on the exploration of geographic
fictions, blurring spaces within and between the disciplines of art,
architecture, urban design and geography. Her interest lies in the
philosophical, practical and political aspects of the design, depiction
and operation of cities through investigation into general and specific
urban, exurban and systems cartographies and topologies. Graham has
exhibited across Canada with recent exhibitions at: The New Gallery,
Calgary with Bromley's Bluff; YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto with
Surrealestate; Articule, Montreal with Civic Liberties;
Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, Gridding the Landscape, and at the
Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Littoral Documents.
Andy Jones
Actor, writer and director Andy Jones was born in St. John�s, where he
co-founded the Resource Centre for the Arts at the L.S.P.U. Hall,
co-writing, acting in, and directing many original productions. Andy has
written five critically acclaimed one-man comedy shows: Still Alive,
Out of the Bin, An Evening with Uncle Val, King O� Fun,
and To The Wall which have extensively toured, to critical
acclaim, across Canada, the UK, and Ireland. He is well known in
Canada as one of the groundbreaking Newfoundland comedy troupe CODCO, in
both its theatrical and television incarnations. In television he has
also co-written and performed in Kids in the Hall, Dooley Gardens, The
Cathy Jones Special, and Nasty Habits. In film he played principal roles
in Rare Birds, Extraordinary Visitor, Brain Candy,
A Secret Nation, Paint Cans, Life With Billy,
Coleslaw Warehouse, and The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood,
which he also co-wrote and directed. Andy is the winner of numerous
awards including two Geminis, three Atlantic Film Festival Awards, and
the Chicago Film Festival Half-Hour T.V. Award (with Codco), as well as
five Gemini nominations, two Emmy nominations (writing for Kids in the
Hall) and two Genie nominations for his feature film The Adventure of
Faustus Bidgood. He was elected to the Newfoundland Arts Council
Hall of Honour in 1993, and was recently awarded the Newfoundland and
Labrador Arts Council�s Award of Excellence and the ACTRA Award of
Excellence for Lifetime Achievement.
Alison Norlem
Alison Norlen completed her BFA Honours degree from the University of
Manitoba and her MFA from Yale University. She currently teaches at the
University of Saskatchewan in the Department of Art and History and has
exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions since the late 1980s
across the country. Her work is currently touring in the contemporary
drawing exhibition Just My Imagination.
Graeme Patterson
Since graduating from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2002,
Graeme Patterson has focused his artistic practice on stop-motion
animation and multi-media/sculptural installation. He has exhibited work
in film animation festivals, galleries, museums and artist-run centres
in Canada and internationally. His first major short animation Don't
Ride Shopping Carts won Best Animation at the 2003 Garden State Film
Festival and Most Promising New Director at the 2003 Atlantic Film
Festival. Now living in Woodrow, Saskatchewan, Graeme works
independently, creating puppets, sets, animation and music.
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