Roundtable on Reality @ Surrey Art Gallery, BC
What is fact? What is fiction?
Fiction non Fiction Gets Real!
Sunday, October 22
What is fact? What is fiction? In an age of sophisticated, mediated digital images, we can’t help but become more easily deceived, as well as more suspicious of representations of reality. Does an image show reality or create it? And how does this matter - do representations of reality enhance our survival instinct, reinforce social norms, relieve anti-social fantasies, imagine better worlds, or do they simply serve as entertainment?
These questions will be addressed by professionals in such diverse fields as psychology, computer interface design and cultural theory in a Roundtable at the Surrey Art Gallery as part of the Fiction non Fiction Gets Real! event on Sunday, October 22, 2pm. Fiction non Fiction exhibiting artists will be on hand to respond, and time will be reserved for audience participation in the conversation. The Roundtable will be preceded by a guided tour of the exhibition with Surrey Art Gallery Curator, Liane Davison at 1pm, and will be followed by a reception to 4:30pm. Admission is free.
The idea of reality as a construction, complicated by digital culture, is the underlying subject of the exhibition Fiction non Fiction. The artworks explore the representation of reality - of time, people, places, and events, in ways that are persuasive, provocative, or amusing. Fiction non Fiction features works by Canadian artists David Carter, Adad Hannah, David Hoffos, Jane Irwin, Kelly Mark, and Jeremy Turner. The exhibition continues to November 5.
Surrey Art Gallery is located at 13750 - 88 Avenue, 1 block east of King George Hwy. in Bear Creek Park. Phone: 604-501-5566 or www.arts.surrey.ca.