“Fashionality” is a newly coined term that refers to the visual culture and semiotics of dress and adornment. Combining the words “fashion,” “personality,” and “nationality,” it suggests the interplay between clothing, identity and culture. Reflecting wide geographic and cultural diversity, this exhibition focuses upon the ways in which the concerns, identities and aesthetics of those living in Canada are expressed, deconstructed and reconfigured through the idiom of dress.

This blog records exhibition-related information, as well as work and events related to artists appearing in the show.

Wednesday 9 May 2012

Weedrobes Video

In case you can't make it to the show soon enough to see this, here's a small-screen sneak preview of Nicole Dextras' gorgeous Weedrobes video. It plays continuously in Gallery 12 next to three of Dextras' photographs. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJaOAWdLurY




Nicole Dextras, Mobile Garden Dress. Detail of performance/installation, 2011.

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Anonymous said...

Canadian Director Dan Zukovic's Vancouver shot feature "DARK ARC", a stylish and surreal modern noir
called "Absolutely brilliant...truly and completely different..." in Film Threat, was recently released on
DVD and Netflix through Vanguard Cinema (http://www.vanguardcinema.com/darkarc/darkarc.htm), and is currently debuting on Cable Video On Demand. The film had it's World Premiere at the Montreal World Film Festival, and it's US Premiere at the Cinequest Film Festival. (The film has also been an official selection at the Calgary and Edmonton Int'l Film Festivals, won Best Production Design at the
Nickel Film Festival in Newfoundland, and screened at the Vancity Theatre in Vancouver.)
Featuring Sarah Strange ("Da Vinci's Inquest", White Noise", Leo Award Nominee for Best
Actress for "DARK ARC"), Kurt Max Runte (Dan Zukovic (director and star of the cult comedy "The Last Big Thing").

TRAILER : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPeG4EFZ4ZM

***** (Five stars) "Absolutely brilliant...truly and completely different...something you've never tasted
before..." Film Threat
"A black comedy about a very strange love triangle" Seattle Times
"Consistently stunning images...a bizarre blend of art, sex, and opium, "Dark Arc" plays like a candy-coloured version of David Lynch. " IFC News
"Sarah Strange is as decadent as Angelina Jolie thinks she is...Don't see this movie sober!" Metroactive Movies
"Equal parts film noir intrigue, pop culture send-up, brain teaser and visual feast. " American Cinematheque