Cc:
me
May
23 – June 16th, 2012
Opening reception: Friday, June 1st 6:30 – 9:00pm
7:30pm Poetry Reading: by Jim
Johnstone, Julie Roorda,
Ruth
Roach Pierson, Larry Sulky
Ambient
sound piece by Tom Auger
The
Red Head Gallery
401
Richmond Street West, Suite 115
Toronto,
ON, Canada M5V 3A8
416-504-5654
Gallery
hours: Wednesday to Saturday, 12-5pm
The
Red Head Gallery presents Elaine Whittaker’s Cc: me,
a mixed media installation of drawing, live bacteria, and sound. The body
becomes a site for the infectious nature of language – nuanced, messaged, poetic,
copied. Abstracted human figures, sketched
using discarded carbon fax typographies, are presented as both wall drawings
and insertions in petri dish installations teeming with live bacteria. These spent faxes, of once urgent environmental
campaigns, are juxtaposed against crass viral commercial messaging, become shadowy iterations of the body, images of mutable
histories, degraded texts, and transformative ecology. Four
local poets, Julie Roorda, Jim Johnstone, Ruth Roach Pierson and Larry Sulky, and
sound artist, Tom Auger, respond to the work. The poets’ words are, in turn,
transformed into evocative tracings of wit, longing, memory, and life. Installations
of word, sound and object. The textual, the aural and the visual. The carbon
copy of yesterday becomes the transfigured art of today.
