[BCMA] Intermission Project: Lars Laumann and Goldin+Senneby

Wed Apr 13 15:29:42 PDT 2011

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Subject: 	Intermission Project: Lars Laumann and Goldin+Senneby
Date: 	Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:51:09 -0400
From: 	Western Front Society <exhibitions at front.bc.ca>

*Intermission Project:*

*Lars Laumann*
*Goldin+Senneby*

*April 21 - May 06, 2011*

The Western Front is pleased to present two videos by the artists *Lars 
Laumann* and *Goldin+Senneby*. This short term exhibition, consist of 
ongoing screenings of Lars Laumann’s video /Morrisey Foretelling the 
Death of Diana/ (2006) in the Western Front’s gallery and two offsite 
screenings of Goldin+Senneby’s video project /Headless at 
Regus…/(2010).  Together these works present new perspectives in 
artistic research methodologies, which use the narrative structures of 
the moving image as their form.

Lars Laumann and Goldin+Senneby is the second project in an ongoing 
Intermission series—punctuating the Western Front’s usual programme of 
gallery exhibitions.

The Western Front will be closed to the public Friday, April 22, 
Saturday, April 23 and Saturday, April 30.

*Lars Laumann
/Morrissey Foretelling The Death of Diana /(2006)*

/Morrissey Foretelling The Death of Diana /is a short video work by the 
Norwegian artist Lars Laumann, which suggests that Morrissey, the former 
lead singer of the English pop band The Smiths, foresaw the premature 
death of Princess Diana in the now infamous 1997 Paris car crash.  These 
predictions are revealed through a reading of cryptic clues that occur 
in Morrisey’s lyrics and visual pointers embedded in images of the 
Smiths' record sleeves and music videos.  Following a track-by-track 
interpretation of The Smiths' seminal 1986 Album “The Queen Is Dead", 
the work adopts the accusatory and menacing tone of a conspiracy theory 
or urban legend, allowing the viewer to be completely absorbed in a plot 
of labyrinth-like twists and turns.  Ultimately, we are convinced that 
this series of arbitrary coincidences could be interpreted as causal 
relationships.

*/Morrisey Foretelling the Death of Diana /screens daily in the gallery.*

*Goldin+Senneby
/Headless at Regus (with Kate Cooper & Richard John Jones, filmmakers) 
/(2010)*

The Swedish collective of Simon Goldin and Jakob Senneby have been 
working on their ongoing project /Headless/ since 2007— investigating an 
offshore company registered in the Bahamas under the name Headless Ltd. 
  This line of investigation has so far appeared across various medias; 
a novel, several versions of a film and a performance. Goldin+Senneby 
have commissioned London-based artists Kate Cooper and Richard John 
Jones to produces the film /Looking for Headless/.  In this rookie-style 
documentary, the filmmakers interview businessmen and women, academics, 
private investigators and fictionalized characters that seem to have 
some relationship to the shadowy company. As they travel through the 
geographic spaces of London, Gibraltar and the Bahamas, every turn of 
the investigation is an opportunity to invent the next step in their 
inquiry. This enduring and ambiguous investigation takes the shape of an 
ongoing performance for Goldin+Senneby.  The subject, the method and the 
artistic aim can no longer be separated from each other.

*/Headless at Regus… /will be screened twice in the heart of Vancouver’s 
financial district. Each screening is limited to 12 viewers, booking is 
essential.  Please RSVP to _exhibitions at front.bc.ca_ 
<mailto:exhibitions at front.bc.ca?subject=RSVP%3A%20Headless%20at%20Regus>*

Off Site Screenings Take Place on:

Thursday, Apr 28 4 PM
Thursday, May 05 4 PM

HSBC Building
Regus Boardroom
Suit 1500
885 West Georgia Street

*Biographies*

*Lars Laumann* is a Norwegian artist who draws inspiration from the 
outskirts of popular culture. By sampling and reediting his source 
material and inspirations, he creates idiosyncratic worlds, which are at 
times absurd and unsettling revelations of our collective modern 
mythologies. Recently his work has been shown at White Columns, Foxy 
Productions and MoMA  (all New York), the 2008 Berlin Biennial, Maureen 
Paley, London and the Galway Arts Festival.

*Goldin+Senneby* are an artist collective working from Stockholm since 
2004. Through their work, Goldin+Senneby explore juridical, financial 
and spatial constructs through notions of the performative and the 
virtual. Recent solo exhibitions and projects include /The Decapitation 
of Money/, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, /Headless. From the public 
record/, Index, Stockholm, /Goldin+Senneby: Headless/, The Power Plant, 
Toronto.  Recent group exhibitions include /The Moderna Exhibition/, 
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, /Uneven Geographies/, Nottingham 
Contemporary, /In living contact/, the 28th Sao Paulo Biennial.

*The Western Front* gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada 
Council for the Arts, the BC Arts Council through the Government of 
British Columbia, the City of Vancouver,  our members and volunteers. 
The Western Front is a member of the Pacific Association of Artist-Run 
Centres (PAARC) and the Independent Media Arts Alliance (IMAA).

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