Critical Writing Index

Making History: Vancouver artist Stan Douglas excavates the ruins of the past in search of new utopias

by Scott Watson

Canadian Art, Winter 1994, v. 11, no. 4, pp. 30-37

Through the examination of a number of his video works, this extensive article on video artist Stan Douglas identifies his art as operating amid the fragmentation of old norms, examining how one comes to understand history, and how one situates oneself within it as an artist.

ITEM 1994.035 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Breath – Stan Douglas

Hors-Champs – Stan Douglas

Deux Devises – Stan Douglas

I'm not Gary – Stan Douglas

Disagree – Stan Douglas

Guilty III – Stan Douglas

Pursuit – Stan Douglas

Fear, Catastrophe: Ruskin, B.C. – Stan Douglas

Evening – Stan Douglas