Presented in conjunction with SWARM7

Thursday, September 7th, 2006 @ 8pm
Video In Studios / Satellite Video Exchange Society
1965 Main Street, Vancouver, BC, V5T 3C1
604-872-8337, info@videoinstudios.com

MUTED is a multi-disciplinary installation produced by nine artists
exploring the impact of censorship on the facilitation, aesthetics and
production of artwork. The notion of censorship is very subtle and often
has unperceivable effects. Video In has created an exhibition that
questions self, peer, community and state censorship within cultural
production.

Each piece will be interrogated with the assistance of overhead
spotlights while the remainder of the room holds black. The artists will
present work that have been tied up, hung or restricted by our current
state of affairs. As a whole the show will examine the internal and
external forces that sway the artist’s original intension.

Emily Rosamond’s sound piece looks at interiority and confinement within
internal spaces. Her piece will speak of implicit censorship rather than
explicit censorship; the wide tendency in our culture to just conform
outwardly; and stay inside our own spaces in order to not unsettle the dust.

Miss Seventy talks about the political notion of Western fashion through
a pair of stilettos. She ponders the question, “How free is a person who
has full mobility but inhibits their body through their shoes?”

Mona Hatoum’s video piece “So much I Want To Say” repeats the title’s
phrase over and over while still shots of a woman being gaged transition
from one to the other.

Other artist represented in MUTED are Steve Calvert, Emma Hendrix,
Crista Dahl, Pierre Sonolet and Asa Mori.