Daniel Young and Christian Giroux: Film Path, Camera Path, with Under-titles

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Daniel Young & Christian Giroux, "Film Path, Camera Path, with Undertitles," 2019

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Join the AGGV for Party for Our People June 7 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. to celebrate the opening of the summer exhibitions which includes Film Path, Camera Path, with Under-titles.

Artist talk with Christian Giroux and Daniel Young and Megan Dickie, Saturday, June 8^th from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Admission by-donation as part of Public Open House on Saturday June 8, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Film Path, Camera Path with Under-titles collides the projected image with the apparatus of its presentation and the moving image with sculpture. A film path is composed into a complex knot made possible by multi-planer geometric modeling, parametric design, and additive manufacturing. Inside the path is a film looper that projects a one-minute long 3D rendering of a camera’s travel along the path that has been printed to 35mm motion picture film. Accompanying the projection is an LED screen that displays under-titled text prepared for the piece by John Barlow, Ina Blom, Eric Cazdyn, Geoffrey Farmer, Agnieszka Gratza, MESH Consultants, Erin Moure, Bridget Moser, Judy Radul, Patricia Reed, Reza Negarestani, Mohammad Salemy, and Michael Snow.

On bringing the work to Victoria,Chief Curator Michelle Jacques said, “I'm thrilled that the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria is able to bring Film Path / Camera Path with under-titles to the west coast. I've known the artists for the full span of their partnership, and this project is a remarkable manifestation of the expanding network of ideas and inquiries that has engaged them over the years. I think it's going to be very interesting to welcome the artists and their work to the city that had an important influence on Christian's early development as an artist, as he completed his BFA at UVic where he studied with Mowry Baden and Robert Youds.”

Young & Christian Giroux have been making art together since 2002. Their work takes the form of exhibitions, sculpture, cinema installations, publications and public artworks. Recently they completed the public artwork Three Points Where Two Lines Meet for the City of Toronto, and the artist book Berlin 2013/1983 from Arch+ that was short-listed for the Best German Architecture publication.

Young & Giroux have had solo exhibitions at 8-11, Toronto; The Deutsches Architektur Zentrum, Berlin; TIFF Bell Light Box, Toronto; The Rooms, St. John’s; Carleton University Art Gallery; Oakville Galleries; Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal; the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge; Mercer Union, Toronto; and Prefix ICA, Toronto. They were awarded the Sobey Art Award in 2011. Daniel Young divides his time between Toronto and Berlin, Christian Giroux teaches at the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph, Ontario.

Film Path / Camera Path with under-titles was commissioned by and first presented at InterAccess (Toronto), with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts’ Media Initiatives Grant.

Film Path, Camera Path, with Undertitles is organized and circulated by InterAccess.