Posted by cafpress on: January 18 2010
Posted on Sep. 3, 2009
Forum Lounge: Daniel Barrow, Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry
THU. SEP. 3, 2009 - 7 PM
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Paseo Nuevo Mall Upper Arts Terrace
FREE
Winnipeg-based artist and featured performer at the 2009 Time-Based Art Festival in Portland, OR, Daniel Barrow uses obsolete technologies as "manual" forms of animation by projecting, layering, and manipulating drawings on old-school overhead projectors.
Funding and support for the ‘09-‘10 Forum Lounge season is generously provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Make Studio, and the Franciscan Inn. Official media sponsors: the Santa Barbara Independent and KCSB 91.9 FM. Forum Lounge is presented in association with the Santa Barbara Downtown Organization’s First Thursdays.
Curator's Note:
Daniel Barrow has been producing his multimedia performances are pieces for major festivals, including TBA at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, where I first noticed his work. Based in Winnipeg, Daniel was the first non-US artist to be a part of Forum Lounge, due largely to the NEA grant we received to fund the program which increased my travel budget for artists. I was intrigued by one of Daniel's earlier pieces, Winnipeg Babysitter, in which he appropriated clips from Winnipeg's public access TV station in the 1980s. The result was--not surprisingly--hilarious and intimately revealing at the same time, like peeking into the window of a neighborhood garage where teenage kids practice their flailing musical pursuits.
The same sense of voyeurism informs the piece Daniel performed at CAF: Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry. Incorporating film, drawing, music and storytelling, Daniel uses a relic of art historian proportions--the overhead projector--to perform his piece, weaving a complex murder-mystery of a garbage man who traces the inhabitants of a city through their bedroom windows to create an independent phone book. Both eerily unsettling and compelling in its delicate aesthetic, Daniel translates the first person experience into a captivating storytelling collaboration, drawing the viewer in through the immediacy of his illustrations and the deliberate pacing of the narrative.
--Heather Jeno Silva, Forum Lounge Curator
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