Storm Room by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
January 31-May 9, 2010
Photo © Klyment Tan
Programming
Lecture - Cardiff/Miller
January 28, 2010, 7:00 pm
Telus Centre Lecture Theatre; 111 St. & 87 Ave., University of Alberta Campus
$15 / $10 AGA Members
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Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller are two of Canada’s most renowned and celebrated artists, and the artists behind the AGA exhibitions The Murder of Crows and Storm Room. Their multimedia installations have become known for raising questions about human perception and the experience of illusion versus reality. They discuss their work in this special lecture co-presented by the University of Alberta.
Art-in-Context - Cardiff/Miller
May 4, 2010, 6:00 pm
6 pm, $35 / $28 AGA Members, (+gst, includes refreshments)
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Art history classes based on our exhibitions are available throughout the year. Each class includes an introduction and a private tour of the featured exhibition. Enrollment is limited; questions and discussion encouraged.
Final week! Exhibition closes May 9, 2010.
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Celebrated Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have created a new work specifically for the opening of the new AGA building. Storm Room continues the artists' explorations into the emotive power of sound.
In 2009, as part of the Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial exhibition, Cardiff and Miller, once University of Alberta students, now world reknowned Contemporary artists, created a new multimedia installation. The work was of a thunder storm enveloping a found space---an abandoned dentist office in Tokamachi, Japan; a region known for its intense storms. For the 2010 AGA opening, the artists constructed a detailed, exact replica of the original space with a few sparse items and set it to a 10-minute soundscape, inside the RBC New Works Gallery.
The RBC New Works Gallery features new works by established and emerging Alberta artists. Named in 2008, the RBC New Works Gallery continues the Art Gallery of Alberta's tradition of supporting local artists.
