Every month, Visual AIDS invites guest curators, drawn from both the arts and AIDS communities, to select several works from the Frank Moore Archive Project. To start off 2011, J.J. Kegan McFadden curated an Escape, featuring the artwork of Archive Members; Rene Capone, Jose Luis Cortes, Edgard Guanipa, Jerry Hooten, Marc Lida, Edward Lightner, Elliott Linwood, Humberto Moreno, Mark Morrisroe, Luna Luis Ortiz, J. Robert Reed, Richard Sawdon Smith, Clifford Smith, Hugh Steers, Sam Tan, Tseng Kwong Chi, TRET, Jorge Veras, Bruce Volpone, and Joel Wateres.
There has always been more than one way to escape. The term itself carries with it several connotations: to flee, to transcend, to avoid. In our ever-evolving digital realm, to escape means something different altogether. When online, we escape through various quasi-anonymous discourses (blogs, chat rooms, games). The button located at the top left of the computer keyboard provides the user a means to get out of certain messy situations; to begin anew. With this selection of images, I am interested in an escape narrative. One informed by the archive, the history of story-telling, and the Hero’s Journey. This escape attempt is for us all (read more)
About the Curator:
J.J. Kegan McFaddenis a writer, curator, and artist living in Winnipeg (Canada) whose practice blurs the lines between cultural research and storytelling. From 2009 to 2010 Kegan embarked on a twelve-city international tour of single night screenings in support of his curatorial project, ESCAPE, produced through Video Pool Media Arts Centre. The collection of fifteen experimental videos by Canadian artists was inspired by escape narratives found in popular culture. For the online web gallery, he has revisited this approach and curated ESCAPE \ VISUAL AIDS redux from The Frank Moore Archive Project. Currently the Director / Curator of platform: centre for photographic + digital arts, Kegan found himself in New York City this past June as a participant in the inaugural Curatorial Intensive with Independent Curators International, where he work-shopped the exhibition Cabin Fever, which opened at platform in October.
View WEB GALLERY here
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About the Curator:
J.J. Kegan McFaddenis a writer, curator, and artist living in Winnipeg (Canada) whose practice blurs the lines between cultural research and storytelling. From 2009 to 2010 Kegan embarked on a twelve-city international tour of single night screenings in support of his curatorial project, ESCAPE, produced through Video Pool Media Arts Centre. The collection of fifteen experimental videos by Canadian artists was inspired by escape narratives found in popular culture. For the online web gallery, he has revisited this approach and curated ESCAPE \ VISUAL AIDS redux from The Frank Moore Archive Project. Currently the Director / Curator of platform: centre for photographic + digital arts, Kegan found himself in New York City this past June as a participant in the inaugural Curatorial Intensive with Independent Curators International, where he work-shopped the exhibition Cabin Fever, which opened at platform in October.
View WEB GALLERY here
[web gallery may contain adult content]
image: TRET, Life Guard Off-duty, 2000
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