7 days ago
Stan Douglas
A conversation between Canadian artist Stan Douglas and Fruitmarket director Fiona Bradley.
Stan Douglas is known for films, photographs and installations which use new and outdated technologies, the tropes of cinema, TV and photography, the conventions of various Hollywood genres, and classic literary texts to examine the intersection of history and memory in evocative, mesmerising artworks.
In 2014, when this conversation was recorded, Fruitmarket presented a selection of Douglas’s films and photographs in a new exhibition. That same year, his innovative play/film hybrid, Helen Lawrence, was performed for the first time in the UK at the Edinburgh International Festival.
You can find out more about Stan Douglas’ Fruitmarket exhibition at the gallery’s online archive, where you can also listen to a lecture on his work by Amsterdam based cultural analyst Mieke Bal.
The book produced to accompany the show, featuring essays by Fiona Bradley and Mieke Bal, is available from Fruitmarket’s online bookshop.
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