The Nanaimo Art Gallery presents The Video Body: The Private Self as Public

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Monday, January 11th, 2010

The Nanaimo Art Gallery at the 900 Fifth Street location presents a new exhibit entitled The Video Body: The Private Self as Public by artists Judith Price, Fahreen Haq, Jeroen Witvliet and John G. Boehme from January 8th to February 13, 2010.

John G. Boehme’s, Farheen Haq’s, Judith Price’s and Jeroen Witvliet’s Video Art projects use and engage their private self to become an engaged public body. These artists structure their own personal narratives as sites of investigation and resistance to mass media’s influences. They conceptualize and investigate sites of codes and language to present complex diverse narratives that, in a gallery space, feed into and out of each other’s projects and are ripe with a multi-narrative that resists easy interpretation. This is not TV, this is not a film, this is not theater, this is not a commercial, and I am not a passive viewer. I am an active viewer, and I exist to also become an engaged body in a public space alongside these projected personal narratives.

The opening reception takes place from 5:00-7:00pm on January 8th, 2010.
The Nanaimo Art Gallery, campus location, hours are Monday - Friday 10:00am-5:00pm and Saturday from 12:00-4:00pm.