Unexplained Parade Part Two
to
Catriona Jeffries Gallery 950 East Cordova Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6A 1M6
Liz Magor, "The Hutch," 1976
natural materials, wood, bones, 33 x 38 x 15 in. (84 x 97 x 38 cm)
Unexplained Parade is the inaugural exhibition of Catriona Jeffries at 950 East Cordova in Vancouver, Canada. As the exhibition progresses, the work of more than forty-two artists will appear and disappear, scheduled and unscheduled, at numerous locations. We invite you to consider these works and each new arrangement as we share how the exhibition progresses.
with
Abbas Akhavan Valerie Blass Raymond Boisjoly Rebecca Brewer Trisha Brown and Trisha Brown Dance Company Chris Burden Raven Chacon Hanne Darboven Marcel Duchamp Geoffrey Farmer Julia Feyrer Alex Frost Rochelle Goldberg Dan Graham Brian Jungen On Kawara Janice Kerbel Christine Sun Kim Duane Linklater Tanya Lukin Linklater
Christina Mackie Myfanwy MacLeod Liz Magor Elizabeth McIntosh Damian Moppett Stephen Murray Kate Newby Jerry Pethick Eileen Quinlan Judy Radul Aurie Ramirez Rob Renpenning Marina Roy Kevin Schmidt Nick Sikkuark Michael Snow Ron Terada Ian Wallace Nicole Wermers Ashes Withyman and more
artist talks by
Ian Wallace Saturday, March 9, 2pm
Liz Magor Saturday, March 16, 2pm
eins zweieins zwei drei vier fünf sechs sieben acht neun zehn elf zwölf dreizehn veirzehn fünfzehn sechzehn siebzehn achtzehn neunzehn zwanzig einundzwanzig zweiundzwanzig drieundzwanzig vierundzwanzig fünfundzwanzig sechsundzwanzig siebenundzwanzig achtundzwanzig neuenundzwanzig dreissig einunddreissig zweiunddreissig dreiunddreissig vierunddreissig fünfunddreissig sechsunddreissig siebenunddreissig achtunddreissig neununddreissig vierzig einundvierzig zweiundvierzig dreiundvierzigeins zwei drei
–Hanne Darboven, 1971
Language as material is opaque. In this sense, words become sequences of letters rather than meanings, syntax becomes a condition of iconographic density, the “nearness of points” in the topological sense, rather than a chain of meanings which complete a thought. Reading opaque language involves a direct perceptual recognition of the body, the physicality, the format of the iconography. Conventional language is transparent. The reader does not see the iconography of transparent language, there is no delay between the recognition of the word and the chain of meanings and associations it brings. Meanings which do not involve a delay are meanings which are taken for granted. Opacity, involving delay, brings both instability and openness to the meaning
.–Ian Wallace, 1969
I migrated from the word to the visible, from the idea to the thing. … From one point of view, making art is a way of testing the positions one might take relative to the world, and the people and things found in the world. The materials, the images, the operations, the forms of address, they all come from an inventory of possibilities and I’m conscious of my choices. By now I have an enhanced ability to make things, but a diminished need for those things to speak symbolically or profoundly.
–Liz Magor, 2017