Exhibits enhance each other From page 29 in its fragmentary exploration of Burrard Ialet’s first non-Indian community, this exhibit surveys the past with vintage photographs and sundry artifacts that, objec- tively considered, are as rare and esthetically interesting as any to be found upstans of, for that matter, in any other art gallery in the city! Transcribed to video, a succes- sion of short documentaries on the logging industry in British Colum- bia are themselves valuable documents delineating the man- nered esthetics of the different periods from which they derive. Here, in the museum, we can appreciate at leisure the pre-Art Deco design esthetics of a 1920s Zebra stave polish bottle or the ‘“deal lace-trimmed tennis out- _ fit’ of a cultivated young woman of the mid-1880s. We can marvel at the muiti- faceted cabinetry of a 1920s kitchen sidenoard or wonder at _ the relative simplicity of a turn-of- the-century telephone switch- board. It is a pity so few realize that the everyday artifacts of the past, however modest and unimposing, are.also art and werthy of elight. In effect, to visit the museum is to step into a time machine that transrorts us carelessly back to an era more naive but less complex than our own, an era tinged through the sheer exercise of cu- ratezial sleight-of-hand with tiat nostalgia whicit is the very essence -of the art of escape. _ Meanwhile, installed in the art ‘gallery upstairs is an exhibit that provides as extreme a contrast to =that-of the museum as one is ever likely to imagine. Continuing until April 4 in Pres- entation House Gallery is ‘Pro- _jections,” an exhibit by interna- tional installation artist Judith — Barry, which features two very Gif- ferent works, both intent on ex- ploring existentialist speculations - on the phenomenon of the isolated self. In the artist’s 1991 work, IMAG- NATION, Dead Imagine, we are i Get a Jump:on Easter | Reserve Now Easter Sunday Brunch or Dinner from tam on a ON ad ali BESTAGSART 926-8922 445-13th St, West Van FREE BOOKLET One often hears Canadians cons- plaining about the hige amount of tax they pay. What many individuals structuring their inv carefully, they can pay Car i tess fax. This guide will provide you stor saving tax through your investinent program, Call today to receive your com- plimentary booklet, .-Mark Osachoff ' 661-7433 ScotiaMicLeod Frastens eerst ait sities tains # EADY presented with a rear-projected four-screen video instatlation por- traying a gargantuan androgynous head unseli-consciously contined within a polished, high-tech, 10- foot cube. This is a mesmerizing work in which the absolute isolation of the self is epitomized by metaphors of disembdodiment, dissolution and death. Like voyeurs at a lugubrious speciicle, we are witness to a se- quence of increasingly disconcei- ting indignities calmly perpetrated on the anonymous and seemingly indifferent countenarice. Subjected to horrors over which it apparently commands neither awareness nor control, it becomes a metaphor for the universal finitude of the self, a metaphor that does little to spare the spec- tators reflected in its nitrored base. In Model for Stage and Screen, the observer is invited to enter a minimalist environment (see photo) whose controiled sensory Stimulation is supposed to induce ONCE CoMPACT CASSETTE DECK, YOU'LL Ni D CASSETTES AGAIN. mildly autonomous hailucinations. All this is scientifically Gf preten- Hioush) substantiated by the fin- dings of 19th-century s jonathan Muller no less! According to Barry. Model for Stage and Screen is a projection piece where the viewer becomes the projector.” Taken at face value, the experi- ence is a unique one thal, in the absence of mundane distractions, elicits and enhances a self-directed heightened sensitivity. Unfortunately, Barry has felt compelled to extemporize on su- perfluous self-projected specula- tions aboul Orpheus, Cedipus and the ordering of myth and meta- phor that, in view of the straightfoiward simplicity of the work iiself, seem so contrived as to be downright preposterous. Nonetheless, this installation, like IMAGINATION, Dead Inag- ine, is a valuable experience for those interested in avaiting themselves of the latest directions our current technology is imposing on art. Now you c in Wednesday, March 31, 1993 — North Shore News ~ 37 Flavour of India Authentic Gourmet Cuisine (with this ad) for MON., TUES., WED. 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