VERB WOMAN: the wall is in my head / a dance of forgetting
You are cordially invited to the opening of two exhibitions and a video launch:
Saturday, November 16, 3 - 5 pm
@ Richmond Art Gallery
Exhibitions continue through January 12, 2014
Premiere screening of VERB WOMAN: the wall is in my head/
a dance of forgetting at 3:20 pm. Video duration: 13 minutes.
Governor-General Award Winner, Margaret Dragu, presents her first Gallery-based solo exhibition, curated by Nan Capogna. VERB WOMAN: the wall is in my head/ a dance of forgetting includes a new video work as well as performance videos and interactive props. Exploring conflict and forgetting within public and private contexts, Dragu's lens focuses on footage from Berlin and Belfast as well as documentation from her 2009-2011 performances of VERB WOMAN: a dance of forgetting. An exhibition brochure with an essay by Michael Turner will be available.
Margaret Dragu
"Margaret Dragu is a warm-hearted, fearless and indomitable spirit who has left her mark across disciplines and across the country. Dragu's astonishing output of work spans back to 1969 and includes forays into visual art, theatre, film, video, writing, choreography and above all, performance art. Dragu assured her place in Canadian art history with a series of massive, people-friendly events that retained an eccentric, personal touch (from her 1983 solstice mega-spectacle "X's and O's on the Longest Day of the Year" to her 1988 film project I VANT TO BE ALONE, which reads as a who's who of the Toronto art scene of the 1980s). As she has matured, her work has focused on creating intimate monuments of the everyday (from her Same Day Edit video and zine projects to her walk'n'roll performance parades and instant, interactive X's and O's improvisational movement works for untrained audiences). Dragu is a pioneer in the feminist politics of domesticity, to which she brings a fierce humour and just a hint of James Bond glamour."
Bio by PAUL COUILLARD
Photo: Margaret Dragu as Lady Justice.
Photo Credit: Martin Lipman