still from film Controlled Environments (1994)
Thursday July 11, 6:30 – 8:00pm > Andrew James Paterson, Screening, Durham Art Gallery
Never Enough Night – Andrew James Paterson
Never Enough Night is a selection of short films by Andrew James Paterson, representing a cross-section of work, ranging across the artist’s career. This presentation acts as an extension of the recent exhibition at the plumb gallery in Toronto. The show, which opened April 26 2024, was the most extensive survey exhibition of the seminal Canadian artist’s work to date. The exhibition included a vast selection of Paterson’s video work spanning from the early 1980s through to the present, as well as poetry, painting, music, archival material, a live performance series, and an original catalogue available through Art Metropole.
Curated by Laura Carusi, Anthony Cooper, and Kate Whiteway
Videos courtesy of the artist and Vtape
The Walking Philosopher
1999
3:30 min
Controlled Environments
1994
34:00 min
AIDS Has Not Left The Building
2007
1:00 min
Enigma of S.A.P.
2008
10:00 min
Trophy Life
2010, silent
2:00 min
Narrative
2016, silent
7:00 min
Andrew James Paterson is an interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto. His work engages in a playful questioning of language, philosophy, community and capitalism in a wide range of disciplines, including video, performance, writing, film, and music. He has exhibited nationally and internationally for over four decades. His body of work is characterized by both the symbiotic relationships, as well as the tensions between bodies, landscapes, technological initiatives, institutions, and abstraction. His video artwork can generally be divided into two parts – still images processed digitally, and hand-held, black-and-white, Super 8 film works. The latter works occupy an idiosyncratic space between performance and documentary.
Paterson has a history of activity with artist-run culture and self-initiated projects. His videos and films have been exhibited in Seoul, Bangalore, New York, London, Montreal, and Toronto. His work has always entertained a performative element, and he has presented performances in tandem with projected film and video in many venues. Paterson has served as a curator or programmer for many organizations: Cinematheque Ontario, Images Festival, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Trinity Square Video, Mercer Union, 8fest festival of small-gauge films, and others. He continues to oscillate between bodies and technologies in his own works. Paterson has also functioned as a writer and editor, most notably for YYZ Books with the book Money, Value, Art, 2001, co-edited with Sally McKay.
Paterson’s artist’s book Collection/Correction was published by Kunstverein Toronto and Mousse of Milan in 2016. His novelette Not Joy Division was published by IMPULSE B in Toronto in 2018. Paterson is the winner of the 2014 Tom Berner Award sponsored by LIFT and Images Festival and “presented annually to an individual who has provided extraordinary support to the cause of independent filmmaking in Toronto.” He was the recipient of an Acker Award, presented to artists considered radical l and ‘underground’ by the annual event’s organizers. Paterson was awarded a Governor General’s Award for his work in Visual and Media Arts in 2019.
https://andrewjamespaterson.com/
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