Critical Writing Index

Queering Plunder

by Deirdre Logue

Regina: Dunlop Art Gallery, 2008

Pamphlet/catalogue for an exhibition presented November 17, 2006 to January 14, 2007 at the Dunlop Art Gallery, a department of the Regina Public Library. Curated by Deirdre Logue, Queering Plunder is a an exhibition of four "recent video installations by five of this country's most provocative and accomplished producers. These pieces find connections in their unique capacity to challenge heteronormative narratives in music, cinema and language. [The] artists boldly dispense with traditional hierarchies of knowing. Instead of drawing on reason, they privilege the emotive, opening up the meaning-making process to the visceral, the visual and the personal. In Ready to Cope, anxiety becomes an epistemological raison d'etre; Lyric recklessly inhabits heartbreak as a cognitive imperative; Satellite inverts our words and curiosity; and Impossible Landscapes beckons us to the chasm between real and fantasy, known and unknowable" (quote taken from the pamphlet). The pamphlet folds to 12 pages, 6 on each side. One side hosts the cover image (a still from Aleesa Cohene's video), a curatorial statement, acknowledgements, a list of works, artist's biographies, and front matter. The second side offers a text which guides the viewer through the exhibition and describes the gallery space and the works on display in more detail, as well as several video stills and in-situ photos of the installations.

ITEM 2008.214 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Ready to CopeAleesa Cohene

SatelliteNelson Henricks

Impossible LandscapesDara Gellman

Impossible LandscapesLeslie Peters

LyricBenny Nemerofsky Ramsay