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Exponential Futures: Tim Lee, Alex Morrison, Isabelle Pauwds, Kevin Schmidt, Mark Soo, Corin Sworn, Althea Thauberger and Elizabeth Zvonar, Morris and Helen Bdkin Art Gallery, Vancouver.
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C: International Contemporary Art
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June 22, 2008
- Author:
- Bornowsky, Eli
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In preparing to write this review, I discovered a reservoir of information about each of the works in the exhibition, which is only indirectly accessible but nonetheless integral to the functioning of the show. For example, I learned of Althea Thauberger's work with young men in Berlin who were allowed to participate in her film as a substitute for the period of military or civil service still required in that country. I discovered that Mark Soo had researched the recording studio where Elvis first appropriated black American music and that Elizabeth Zvonar had researched modernist architecture in Montreal. None of this information was available in the gallery (although ...