Hybrid Hijinks: Oliver Husain's Art of Cinema, Performance, Installation, Objects, and Text
Canadian Art, Summer 2012, pp. 62-65
Oliver Husain, first trained in cinema in his native Germany, arrived in Toronto in 2006 as an accomplished filmmaker and performance artist. Husain's film work eschews the typical framing which allows the audience to be omnipotent to some degree, instead opting to constrain the viewer's point of view so as to be aligned with his characters and their partial and discrete views. Husain has increasingly worked with elements of cinema and performance inside of the gallery space, bringing the sweeping and absorbing narrative power of cinema into the gallery and creating transformative experiences.
ITEM 2012.070 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Swivel – Oliver Husain
Shrivel – Oliver Husain
Squiggle – Oliver Husain
Rushes for Five Hats – Oliver Husain
Revenge of the Theory Persons, or Don't Just Sit There, Gentle Presence – Oliver Husain and Kathleen Smith
The Glimmering Grotto (Seven Plays over Seven Days) – Oliver Husain
Purfled Promises – Oliver Husain
Dear What's Your Face – Oliver Husain