[Bcma-l] Correction to Nanaimo Art Gallery September Press Release

[bcma-l@museumsassn.bc.ca]

Hello.

This is a correction to a press release that was send by the Nanaimo Art
Gallery a few days ago.

Scott Marsden
Nanaimo Art Gallery



For Immediate Release

September 18, 2007
Explorations in Labour, Leisure & Sport
Performance, video & photos
John Boehme
September 28 – October 27, 2007
Mock Interviews: Thursday September 27 10:30am – 5:00pm
Downtown Gallery - 150 Commercial Street
Opening Friday September 28, 7- 9pm
Performance: FORE MIEN Friday September 28 4:30 & 7:30
Uptown Gallery - 900 Fifth Street


In this exhibition John Boehme incorporates a range of artistic mediums 
including digital technology, performance, video, photography and 
installation. This exhibition centers on three aspects of contemporary 
society, labour, leisure, and sport. The production, presentation, and 
research of this exhibition is grounded in Boehme’s interest in language 
which includes both performance works and traditional materials that 
explore the complexities, relationships, and activities of notions of 
work and leisure. Boehme states that, “sports are the arena where the 
social and political tensions of the times we live in are constantly 
played out.

Boehme’s performance piece “Fore Mien”, for example, explores the 
activity of golf to highlight the sport’s inherent manipulation of 
personal identity as well as the destruction and reconstruction of 
natural environments into elite landscapes. In this piece, Boehme will 
drive golf balls in to a large thin sheet of aluminum which warps due to 
the constant deluge of balls striking it. A ground microphone below a 
raised golf tee magnifies the sound as Boehme continues to strike five 
hundred golf balls over a period of two hours. This performance, along 
with a variety of other floor and wall artworks, approaches the subjects 
of labour, leisure, and sport in a critical and ironic manner. Another 
aspect of his work explores the changing roles and of the labour force 
by enacting several performance works that oscillate between the roles 
of both manager and worker in the service and retail sectors. Boehme 
will be conducting mock videotaped interviews with individuals who 
either work or are unemployed within Nanaimo’s downtown core and 
incorporate these sessions into the exhibition. Boehme will conduct 
these “interviews” on Thursday September 27^th at the Downtown Gallery 
located at 150 Commercial Street from 10:30 am until 5:00 pm. The 
performance will be videotaped and act as a sculptural installation in 
the exhibition.

For more information, please contact Curator Gregory Ball at 753-3245 
local 2275

or Director, Scott Marsden at 740-6351.

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