April 13 – 23, 2006
IMAGES FESTIVAL 2006
Vancouver-based artist and musician Jeremy Shaw presents his 8-monitor video installation DMT, a work that explores the varied experiences of his friends under the influence of the powerful hallucinogenic drug DMT.
With his camera tightly focussed on their faces, Shaw taped 7 of his friends, and himself, attempting to describe their experiences while tripping heavily for the approximately 10 intense minutes that the drug lasts. As is well known to those who have taken the drug, the experience is nearly impossible to describe, and watching the subjects in DMT, that certainly appears to be the case. By turns disturbing, amusing, delightful and even silly, the true nature of the work contemplates the inadequacy of language to express deeply personal and profound experiences.
“I started to realize that there are all kinds of barriers in the language we speak in trying to describe an experience like that. People really were at a loss for words. And I think it really shows that we can’t share everything with everyone, that there are things that are always going to be yours. But there are a lot of open ends to this.”
Opening Reception
Saturday April 15, 2 – 5 pm
Closing Party
Saturday April 22, 9 pm
Programming
Curator and Artist Talks
Saturday February 8, 1 – 2 pm
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