October 31 to December 16, 2012
Opening: Tuesday October 30, 7:30pm
Artist Talk: Allan Sekula
October 25, 7pm ECU Theatre (SB 301)
Emily Carr Unversity of Art and Design
1399 Johnston Street
Vancouver, BC V6H 3R9
Hours: Monday–Friday 12–5pm, Saturday & Sunday 10–5 pm
Admission is free
T 604 844 3809
The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea Part IV is the latest installment in a multi-exhibition series about our relationship to the sea. Part IV looks at the business and politics of shipping and features the work of three internationally renowned artists—Stan Douglas, Uriel Orlow and Allan Sekula.
In Journey into Fear, Stan Douglas conflates Herman Melville’s The Confidence Man with two film versions of Eric Ambler’s espionage novel Journey Into Fear. Each film version, one from 1942 and the other from 1975, were adapted to suit the political intrigues of their day. Douglas’s version is open ended and fraught with uncertainty which is heightened through his use of looping and repetition.
In 1967, 14 cargo vessels were caught in the Suez Canal at the outbreak of the Six Day War and were unable to leave until the canal was re-opened eight years later. During that time the multinational crews that were required to stay with the ships formed a community; their story is the subject of Swiss artist Uriel Orlow’s project The Short and Long of It.
Allan Sekula is one of the leading contemporary artists working with the subject of shipping and late capitalism. From his seminal work Fish Story to his latest film The Forgotten Space made with Noel Burch, Sekula has investigated the impact of globalization on the workers that make a living from the sea and on the sea itself. For the exhibition at the Charles H. Scott Gallery, Sekula will present The Forgotten Space along with a version of his large project Ship of Fools.
In tandem with the exhibition at the Charles H. Scott Gallery, a component of the exhibition will take place at the Vancouver Maritime Museum.
Allan Sekula will give a public talk on his work that is being co-sponsored with Simon Fraser University and the Contemporary Art Society on October 25th at 7pm.
