Exhibition: Rita McKeough: The Lion's Share

RITA MCKEOUGH: THE LION'S SHARE

Jan 21 - Apr 26, 2014
Curated by Josephine Mills

In collaboration with the Kenderdine Art Gallery, Dalhousie Art Gallery and Doris McCarthy Gallery.

Rita McKeough’s The Lion’s Share is an immersive experience. Entering the space of her faux restaurant, viewers are initially overwhelmed by the visual array of material, the sounds of a lion eating and the clacking of the ‘cutlery’ on all the tables that comes to life when visitors approach them. McKeough describes the installation as a 3d version of a Looney Tunes restaurant in which things have gone terribly awry.

Audio, media installation, and performance artist Rita McKeough has exhibited extensively in Canada since 1977 and has presented her work internationally. McKeough received the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2009.

At the College Galleries:

January 24, 2014 to May 7, 2014

ECOTOPIA

College Art Galleries 1&2
Jan 24 - May 7, 2014
Curated by Amanda Cachia

Artists include: BGL, David Brooks, Dagmara Genda, Rodney Graham, Isabelle Hayeur, Maude Leonard-Contant, Lynne Marsh, Lisa Sanditz, Jennifer Steinkamp, T & T, Tristram Lansdowne and Kate Wilson

Circulated by the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery.

This exhibition explores environmental conservation, destruction and the cacophonous blend of architecture and decay in our technological age. Ecotopian fiction is a subgenre of the utopian or dystopian, where a vision for a world is either ideal or a nightmare. An element of the scifi or futurism can be found in some of the work represented in this exhibition, where artists are offering an alternative for postmodern living, where nature and technology can live more harmoniously, without wreaking great havoc on our environment.