• Saturday Society: Explorations in Psychic Geography II
  • Saturday Society: Explorations in Psychic Geography II
  • Saturday Society: Explorations in Psychic Geography II
  • Saturday Society: Explorations in Psychic Geography II

Saturday Society: Explorations in Psychic Geography II

10 May
14 June 2003

Curated by: Sydney Hermant

Saturday Society: Explorations in Psychic Geography II

Kim Austin, Stephanie Aitken, Tyler Brett, Marina Roy, Antik Sandor, Igor Santizo, Sam Shem, Rhonda Weppler

Curated by: Sydney Hermant

The second Exploration in Psychic Geography, Saturday Society draws on an earlier influence of the Situationist Internationale: the 17th century writings of Madeleine de Scudery and her novel Clelie which inspired interest in metaphorical mapping.

 

Working in a variety of media, the artists selected work with the traces, signs and other methods of mapping. This was the second in a series of exhibitions exploring tangents associated with Psychic Geography.

Artist Bio

Vancouver artist and instructor Stephanie Aitken’s paintings explore pastoral tropes that border on camp and Sunday hobby-ism.

 

Marina Roy uses traditional animation to explore the nature of memory in both its unsettling and pleasurable qualities.

 

Igor Santizo’s work is an explorative process seeking ways to discover and map the inter-relation of consciousness, body, object and document.

 

Artist and musician Tyler Brett presented selections of his latest CD work Propane, an a-pop-alyptic exploration of pop music, Vancouver, and the surrounding landscape.

 

Antik Sandor represented Romania at the 2001 Venice Biennial. Sandor has recreated the ancient woodcut The Resurrection of the Dead, posing with his partner in a photographic maquette.

 

Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design Kim Kennedy Austin’s text based drawings explore the architecture and underpinnings of the everyday.

 

Vancouver artist Sam Shem’s work combines notions of East and West to create a kind of austere spiritualism.

 

Rhonda Wheppler ’s sound based installation and photography play on perceptions of the precious using scale and sound as a tool to surprise.