Mono Logical Video, Film & Performance by Andrew J. Paterson (In
Person)
Saturday, November 15, 8pm @ Latvian House,
491 College St. A co-presentation with 7a*11d
Pleasure Dome and 7a*11d are thrilled to present
a performance by the legendary Downtown artist Andrew James
Paterson. Comprising film, video, and live monologues, Mono
Logical consists of clips from Paterson’s narrative
and performance-based video works from the early 80s up until
the early 90s, in tandem with his new shorter digital media
works and his recent super 8 tone poems. Mono Logical’s
trajectory begins with Paterson’s infamous “New
Wave” band The Government. It will include excerpts
from such works as his pop-mockumentary Immortality,
his paranoid language-thriller Who Killed Professor Wordsworth?,
and the split-frame art-bureaucratic Socratic dialogue Controlled
Environments. The collaged program will also highlight
recent short works like The Walking Philosopher,
Snowjob, and The Headmaster’s Ritual —
tapes and films combining photographic tracking shots, montages
of mediated found images, and voice-over discourses concerning
urban space, global economics, and sexual possibilities. These
performative dispatches contain their own various logics,
and audiences will be encouraged to make their own associations
and perhaps even draw their own conclusions. Mono
Logical promises to throw curveballs and suggest
parallel U-turns. Paterson will of course be present and available
for creative interrogation after the program.
The 2002/2003 Board of Directors/ Programming Collectiveis Roberto Ariganello, Elena Bird, Daniel Cockburn, Arthur
Conway, Linda Feesey, Graham Hollings, Carolyn Kane, Chris Kennedy, Sunny
Kerr, Jinhan Ko, and Louise Liliefeldt. Tom Taylor is the Program Coordinator
Pleasure Domeis a year-round film and video exhibition group dedicated to the presentation of experimental film and video. Pleasure Dome acknowledges the support of our members, the Canada Council for the Arts - Media Arts Office, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council, the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Charles Street Video, Media City Festival, Trinity Square Video and V tape.
Pleasure Dome follows a policy of non-compliance with any
government (or other) censoring or prior-approval laws or bodies.
