Dead Nature, La vie immobile
21 January 2005 to 27 March 2005
Curator: Emily Falvey

Artist Talk and Screening with Rachel Echenberg
Friday 25 February 2005 at Noon

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Rachel Echenberg is a performance and multi-disciplinary artist whose work focuses on situation-specific actions that explore a shared, live presence. Her performance and video art often involve public acts of physical endurance.

Rachel Echenberg lives and works in Montreal. She holds a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (1993) and an MA in Visual Performance from Dartington College of Arts in the UK (2004). Since 1992, Echenberg’s work has been exhibited, performed and screened throughout Quebec and Canada, as well as in Switzerland, France, Poland, Italy, Spain, Chile, Morocco, Japan and England.

You are invited hear Rachel talk on Friday 25 February at noon. Everyone is welcome and the talk is free.

Screening:
12 Hours, 2001, video, no dialogue, 7:48 min.

A woman is walking down the street on a cold winter morning when she stops, closes her eyes, and remains immobile for the duration of the day. The world continues around her, people and cars pass, some stop, including the police, but she remains, eyes closed, yet present and unmoving. We witness her stillness in opposition to the movement of the day around her during her 12 hour period of action/non-action.