NOTICE FOR THE 2008 SUMMER CLOSURE:
VIVO Media Arts Centre will be closed as of July 14 and will reopen on August 5.
Have a good summer!
VIVO Media Artist in Residence
SARAH SHAMASH
Artist Talk + Presentation: Thursday June 26 8PM
1965 Main Street
Vancouver BC
604.872.8337
VIVO Media Arts Centre Artist in Residence Sarah Shamash has come to Vancouver to develop a new work titled All the perfumes of Arabia… She proposes to create a motion triggered interactive video projection as a meditation on terrorism and amnesia. On June 26th Sarah Shamash will give an artist talk and exhibit the work she has developed during the residency.
Working with Artist and VIVO New Media Mentor in Residence, Brady Marks, Shamash will build a pure data patch to control and shift video signal according to a viewer’s proximity. The physical interplay between the spectator’s body and the work reflects on how perception is informed by our dynamic position in space.
The title of the installation refers directly to a line in Shakespeare’s Macbeth: “All the perfumes of Arabia could not sweeten this little hand…” stated by Lady Macbeth to express her madness, or lucidity, on realizing the impossibility of cleansing the blood from her hands once the act of murder has been committed. The same words today resonate and contrast with this topical region of the world, now associated with terrorism in Western media, while simultaneously calling up its Elizabethan association as a trade route for perfume, spices and silk.
Born in Vancouver in 1977, Sarah Shamash completed a BA in Film Production from the University of British Columbia. She moved to Paris in 2001, where she lived, worked and studied for five years. Completing a Master's in Cinema, then a second Master's in Fine Arts from Paris VIII, University of Saint Denis, she began exhibiting her work in art venues and film festivals internationally. Informed by cinema, her work explores time-based mediums. She now lives and works in Toronto.
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