Stan Douglas: November 7

Stan Douglas
Wednesday, November 7
6:30pm
The New School,
Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street

Stan Douglas creates lush photographic series and technically sophisticated film and video installations that are the foundation for nuanced political criticisms and cultural investigations. Over the course of his 25-year career, this Canadian artist has addressed such timely issues as information overload, cultural difference and the impact of technology on perception. He also has used a computer program to recombine visuals, music and dialogue in complex arrangements, resulting in lengthy and intricate narratives. Among his most ambitious and acclaimed projects are Klatsassin (2006), a "Western" that tells a murder mystery from multiple viewpoints and includes aspects of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950); Inconsolable Memories (2005), a dual 16mm projection loosely based on Thomàs Gutiérrez Alea's 1968 film Memorias del Subdesarrollo (Memories of Underdevelopment) about the dilemmas of a bourgeois intellectual in Havana during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962; and his latest project, Vidéo (2006), a video based on Samuel Beckett's Film and Orson Welles' The Trial.

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$5 General Admission, $3 for seniors, FREE to students with valid ID
To purchase tickets call (212) 980-3942 or visit http://www.publicartfund.org/pafweb/talks/talks_indexFall07.htm