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13 September - 16 November 2008
in Gairloch Gardens

This exhibition of Logue's recent work centers on video-based self-portraits of obsessions, anxieties and reluctant self-revelations as communicated through a series of performative and repetitive actions. In sharing a series of affective (but ultimately guarded) gestures, the artist cultivates an uncanny intimacy with the camera to explore the precarious nature of time, the body and the self.


13 September - 23 November 2008
at Centennial Square

Burning Cold is an exhibition organized by a panel of curators from across the country, showcasing some of Canada's finest young and emerging artistic talents from both the north and south. Introducing questions and concepts crucial to understanding Canada's national identity, this exhibition considers the unique cultural and social experiences of First Nations people living in northern Canada as juxtaposed with the realities of the Canadian south.


6 December 2008 -­ 22 February 2009
in Gairloch Gardens

Long's work tends toward conceptual gestures that play with formal ideas of translation, narrative and medium-specificity. His projects turn video into material objects in an effort to explore video's value as infinitely reproducible. Such translations result in pieces far-removed from their source, often barely resembling the original in their new, compromised object-form. This exhibition was programmed to coincide with the Colin Campbell exhibition at Centennial Square; as a former student of Campbell's, Long and his work are a testament to Campbell's ongoing influence.


6 December 2008 - 22 February 2009
at Centennial Square

Colin Campbell's videos are as much an oeuvre of words as they are of images. This retrospective exhibition considers the manner in which the artist cultivated a myth around himself and his personae through trafficking in stories, rumours and fables as culled from the goings-on of his everyday life. In blurring truth and lies, real life and artifice, Campbell's video works suggest links between storytelling, self-construction and star power.


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