Re: Celebrating the Body
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MacKenzie Art Gallery 3475 Albert St, T C Douglas Building (corner of Albert St & 23rd Ave), Regina, Saskatchewan S4S 6X6
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS | FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 2018
Member Preview | 6:30 PM
Public Opening | 7:00 PM
Re: Celebrating the Body revisits the ground-breaking N.E. Thing Co. Ltd. exhibition Celebration of the Body (1976), featuring contributions by NETCO co-presidents Iain Baxter& and Ingrid Baxter, as well as an international contingent of invited artists including Kader Attia, Hannah Dubois, KVM—Ju Hyun Lee & Ludovic Burel, Camille Llobet, Machine à performer, Jeannie Mah, Émilie Parendeau, jes sachse, Erwin Wurm, and others.
“The entire range of activities that are undertaken by the MacKenzie and New Dance Horizons as part of Re: Celebrating the Body allow the Gallery to showcase a number of established priorities,” says Anthony Kiendl, the MacKenzie Art Gallery’s Executive Director and CEO. “It is curatorially innovative as an exhibition practice, it is inter-disciplinary, it offers an immersive and interactive experience for the visitor, and it introduces a number of new community partnerships. We are also taking this opportunity to explore the Gallery from various perspectives, including those experiences of visitors who are differently-abled. We are actively questioning our assumptions about the visitor’s experience of art and the Gallery. We are thrilled to be working again with New Dance Horizons, and we look forward to welcoming the Regina Symphony Orchestra to the MacKenzie through the Forward Currents Festival that coincides with this project.”
Re: Celebrating the Body is the most recent in a series of projects initiated by visiting French curator Fabien Pinaroli that channel the spirit and energy of the original 1976 exhibition. In 2012, he produced exhibitions with Iain Baxter& at the Musée des Moulages in Lyon and CAP Saint-Fons (France) as well as conference-performances at University College London and Raven Row (UK). Joining the curatorial team are Timothy Long, Head Curator at the MacKenzie Art Gallery, and Robin Poitras, Artistic Director of Regina’s acclaimed contemporary dance company New Dance Horizons, whose season of programming will be based at the MacKenzie as part of their residency Re: Celebrating the Body: art + dance + life.