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image credit: Renzo Martens, still from Episode III: Enjoy
Poverty, 2009, film, 90 min. Courtesy the artist.

EVENTS

SATURDAY APRIL 2, 2011 AT 7:30 PM

EXHIBITION TOUR AND RECEPTION

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Introduction to the exhibition, Models For Taking Part

with the curator, Juan A. Gaitán

followed by a Reception at 8:00pm

MONDAY APRIL 4, 2011 AT 7:00 PM

FILM SCREENING

Screening of Episode III: Enjoy Poverty by Renzo Martens

followed by a Public Discussion and responses from

Ken Lum, visual artist

Isabelle Pauwels, media artist

Nettie Wild, documentary filmmaker

moderated by Juan A. Gaitán

Location:

The Dyavad Mowafaghian Cinema

Third floor, SFU Woodwards, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver

This provocative and controversial film raises questions about
media coverage of poverty and what the poor get in return. The
filmmaker critically investigates how poverty is represented and
exploited as an industry by foregrounding the contradictions of
humanitarianism, photojournalism, as well as "concerned"
contemporary art. Filmed in the Upper Congo, the disturbing
footage examines the ethics and economics of producing images of
human suffering, and questions the very premises of documentary
filmmaking.

Dutch artist Renzo Martens is working on a series of films that
try to mediate their own complicity with dominant visual regimes
. His works have recently been shown at Tate Modern, London,
Kunsthaus Graz, La Vireina, Barcelona, Stedelijk Museum,
Amsterdam and the 6th Berlin Biennale. Episode I of this series
was shot in a refugee camp in Chechnya in 2002.

Supported by SFU Woodwards

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Gallery is a public cultural facility operated by the British
Columbia Photography and Media Arts Society, a federally
registered charity.

We are grateful for the ongoing support from our funders: The
Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council,
the City of North Vancouver and the District of North Vancouver,
the Arts Office, Metro Vancouver, the Yosef Wosk Foundation and
the Michael O'Brian Family Foundation.

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