Jude Norris Exhibition Opens Thursday 5-8pm @ Trinity Square Video
Between the Lines
Jude Norris
Opening: Thursday, September 28, 2006 from 5:00-8:00pm
Artist Talk: Thursday, October 19, 2006 at 6:30pm
Trinity Square Video and the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival present Between the Lines an exhibition of new works by acclaimed visual artist Jude Norris. This exhibition consists of two sculptures that incorporate video and sound elements in intimate and arresting ways. With these works, Norris examines our intricate relationships to technology, language, and the spirit world within a colonial framework.
In The Definition of Bear, a bear skull props open an Oxford English Dictionary, pointing to ironic definitions of its name. The definitions emanate softly from the bear, spoken in both English and Cree. Through the hybrid identity of the bear, Norris reveals the complexities of language as the expression of a particular worldview and gives voice to the animal’s enduring strength. In Words of a Feather, a turn-of-the-century school desk sits alone in the centre of a dark room - soft, glowing light filtering out from within its half-opened lid. Instead of schoolbooks, this desk is filled with spirit helpers and earth. A gold-tippe! d feather pen rests on its surface. In this poignant piece, Norris acknowledges an ongoing potential to rewrite the position of First Nation’s people within colonial and literary education and culture.
Biography
Multi-disciplinary Cree-Metis artist, Jude Norris, employs idiosyncratic combinations of ‘Native’ material, language, traditional creative practice, and iconography with elements of western technology, art practice, theory, and language. Grounded by a strong aesthetic sensibility, and often a subtle humour, her work is an exploration and expression of the oddness and challenges of contemporary colonized reality. Jude is a recent recipient of a Chalmer’s Arts Fellowship, and has received awards from the Canada Council, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council. Her work has been exhibited internationally.
Exhibition runs until October 26, 2006
Trinity Square Video Gallery
401 Richmond St. West, Suite 376
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
416 593-1332
www.trinitysquarevideo.com
imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival
www.imaginenative.org
TSV will be open 7pm - 2am for Nuit Blanche on September 30, 2006. www.nuitblanche.livewithculture.ca