John Anderson Dying Is Hard/ No One Has Ever Looked So Dead at XENO Gallery, 183 East Broadway, Vancouver, BC, March 21 - May 11 2003
Book-ended by retail and other businesses the narrow passage of hall that constitutes the XENO Gallery appropriately provides the spatial medium, the conduit as it were, by which Anderson tunes us into contemporary mutations on the tail-chasing McLuhan formula "the medium is the message" As tidy fusion of medium and message, a photographic triptych portraying the otherworldly ecstasy of a pop singer, a computer generated sign chain of aggression which ranges from action film poster slogans to screaming t-shirts and a subliminally reconstituted European Union flag combine to echo the totalizing machinations of corporate culture propaganda. The consumer of mass culture, coddled within the yoke of the nation-state, comforted by the ever-presence of their ubiquitous pop entertainment god, through the pret a porter of popularized slogans, instantly, is free to acquire an identity. Via his channeling of varying cultural modulations into a singular media-stream, Anderson, in slick fashion, re-broadcasts our cultural state apparatus' unabated seamless marketing of violence. The show's transmissions, though appearing to subvert the products of a capitalist media, oscillate in the ether of white noise as a question suspending verdict on whether contemporary artistic practice generates counter-culture or merely reinforces media culture and its varying subsets.
Dylan Cree is a Vancouver filmmaker and writer.
BIO
EXHIBITIONS
2007 YouTube Otrason
2005 69 Pender Return To Sender
Anti Social Paul Butler's Collage Party
2004 Ministry of Casual Living - No One Has Ever Looked So Dead
Helen Pitt Cut and Paste
Access Gallery On the Road
2003 Xeno Gallery Dying Is Hard/No One Has Ever Looked So Dead
2002 Burnaby Art Gallery New Media
2001 Or Gallery Knock Off Knock Off
PS1 New York Year
2000 Or Gallery Knock Off
1999 Western Front John Anderson and Friends Scope
Helen Pitt 15 Seconds
1998 Or Gallery Mirror Ball
1997 Or Gallery Framed
1996 Western Front Sex Sells
@ Gallery Rough and Ruined Feast
1995 Contemporary Art Gallery Collections With Connections
1993 Video In Before the Generation Loss
Artspeak Gallery Working Documents
EXHIBITIONS CURATED
2001 Helen Pitt Triina Linde
BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
2003 Watson, Scott Keillor, John and Sengara, Kim John Anderson Dying Is Hard/No One Has Ever Looked So Dead Xeno Gallery
Bowie, Fiona Scope Western Front
2002 Lewis, Glenn New Media Burnaby Art Gallery
2000 Henry Karen Premediated:Out of Body Experience Live At the End of the Century - Performance In Vancouver, ed. Canyon, Brice Grunt Gallery
Abbott, Jennifer Contested Relations:
Goldberg, Michael Before the Generation Loss
& Wong, Paul Guerilla Television/Pirate TV
Making Video In ed. Jennifer Abbott Video In Studios
1996 Anderson, John Normalization of Relations
Diamond, Sara Daring Documents &
Bull, Hank On TV- Video Re/View: The (best) Source Book on Canadian Artists Video Art ed. Gale, Peggy and Steele, Lisa Art Metropole/V Tape, Toronto
1993 Whispered Histories Western Front Pulp/Arsenal Press
Fischer, Barbara Decalog YYZ, Toronto
1991 Diamond, Sara Daring Documents: the Practical Aesthetics of Early Vancouver Video, Vancouver Anthology - The Institutional Politics of Art A Project of the Or Gallery Edited by Stan Douglas Talonbooks Richard, Alain Martin & Robertson, Clive Performance Au/In Canada 1970-1990 Inter Editeur
PERIODICALS
1998 Anderson, Patrick Oksanen, Shannon and Graham, Rodney Volumiser BOO Magazine #8
1992 Column At Large Front Magazine January/February
1990 Schilling, Grant If It's Tuesday, This Must be Graceland Vancouver Magazine April Haraldsson, Ami Runar Harold Herbert Elliott C Magazine #12
RADIO
1995-6 Arts Producer for Wednesday Rational CFRO including:
Robert Linsley interviews with Ian Wallace, Landon McKenzie, Denise Oleksijczuk
Lawrence Paul, Hayley Newman, John OíBrian, and Sharla Sava
Antonia Hirsch interviews with Tecla Schiphorst and my name is scot, Cathy Smith interview with Leila Sujir
TELEVISION
2004 Exciting Spring Collection aired on Wonderground in Berkeley, Olympia, Denver, Portland and North Carolina
2003 Interview- Xeno Gallery Viva, CityTV
1997 Produced Wildflowers and Weeds Priscilla Yeung interviewed by Cornelia Wyngardten Rogers
PERFORMANCE/EVENTS
1996 Sheir/McCrum Studio Get Your Hands Off Me! with Judy Radul
VISUALS
2000 Western Front Film Jam -Scope John Anderson and Friends
Lotus Hotel Burlesque at Freitag produced by Scott McFarland
1999 Lotus Hotel History produced by Scott McFarland
1996 Sabotage,.Chameleon Club, CFRO, Bands: MKnaomi, Volumizer, (with Rodney Graham)
1994 Diva, Crave, Rave Technology, EDAM Dance, Music West
1993 Star Trip, Summer Love Festival, Land of the Pharoahs, Or & Artspeak Galleries
1992 Vancouver International Film Festival, Kids In Need
1991 First Night, Western Front, Canadian Armed Forces, Coast 1040, Kids In Need
1990 Kinesis Dance, Vancouver Art Gallery
EDUCATION
British Columbia Institute of Technology, Broadcast Television
Emily Carr College of Art, Interdisciplinary Studies
COMMUNITY
2000-2 Helen Pitt Gallery, President, Board of Directors
1998 ICTV (Independent Community Television), Director, Board
1997 BOO Magazine, Advertising Manager
1996 Edgewise Electrolit Center, Videographer
1995-6 CFRO FM News Producer/Programmer & Host
1991-2 Front Magazine, Advertising Manager
2007 YouTube Otrason
2005 69 Pender Return To Sender
Anti Social Paul Butler's Collage Party
2004 Ministry of Casual Living - No One Has Ever Looked So Dead
Helen Pitt Cut and Paste
Access Gallery On the Road
2003 Xeno Gallery Dying Is Hard/No One Has Ever Looked So Dead
2002 Burnaby Art Gallery New Media
2001 Or Gallery Knock Off Knock Off
PS1 New York Year
2000 Or Gallery Knock Off
1999 Western Front John Anderson and Friends Scope
Helen Pitt 15 Seconds
1998 Or Gallery Mirror Ball
1997 Or Gallery Framed
1996 Western Front Sex Sells
@ Gallery Rough and Ruined Feast
1995 Contemporary Art Gallery Collections With Connections
1993 Video In Before the Generation Loss
Artspeak Gallery Working Documents
EXHIBITIONS CURATED
2001 Helen Pitt Triina Linde
BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
2003 Watson, Scott Keillor, John and Sengara, Kim John Anderson Dying Is Hard/No One Has Ever Looked So Dead Xeno Gallery
Bowie, Fiona Scope Western Front
2002 Lewis, Glenn New Media Burnaby Art Gallery
2000 Henry Karen Premediated:Out of Body Experience Live At the End of the Century - Performance In Vancouver, ed. Canyon, Brice Grunt Gallery
Abbott, Jennifer Contested Relations:
Goldberg, Michael Before the Generation Loss
& Wong, Paul Guerilla Television/Pirate TV
Making Video In ed. Jennifer Abbott Video In Studios
1996 Anderson, John Normalization of Relations
Diamond, Sara Daring Documents &
Bull, Hank On TV- Video Re/View: The (best) Source Book on Canadian Artists Video Art ed. Gale, Peggy and Steele, Lisa Art Metropole/V Tape, Toronto
1993 Whispered Histories Western Front Pulp/Arsenal Press
Fischer, Barbara Decalog YYZ, Toronto
1991 Diamond, Sara Daring Documents: the Practical Aesthetics of Early Vancouver Video, Vancouver Anthology - The Institutional Politics of Art A Project of the Or Gallery Edited by Stan Douglas Talonbooks Richard, Alain Martin & Robertson, Clive Performance Au/In Canada 1970-1990 Inter Editeur
PERIODICALS
1998 Anderson, Patrick Oksanen, Shannon and Graham, Rodney Volumiser BOO Magazine #8
1992 Column At Large Front Magazine January/February
1990 Schilling, Grant If It's Tuesday, This Must be Graceland Vancouver Magazine April Haraldsson, Ami Runar Harold Herbert Elliott C Magazine #12
RADIO
1995-6 Arts Producer for Wednesday Rational CFRO including:
Robert Linsley interviews with Ian Wallace, Landon McKenzie, Denise Oleksijczuk
Lawrence Paul, Hayley Newman, John OíBrian, and Sharla Sava
Antonia Hirsch interviews with Tecla Schiphorst and my name is scot, Cathy Smith interview with Leila Sujir
TELEVISION
2004 Exciting Spring Collection aired on Wonderground in Berkeley, Olympia, Denver, Portland and North Carolina
2003 Interview- Xeno Gallery Viva, CityTV
1997 Produced Wildflowers and Weeds Priscilla Yeung interviewed by Cornelia Wyngardten Rogers
PERFORMANCE/EVENTS
1996 Sheir/McCrum Studio Get Your Hands Off Me! with Judy Radul
VISUALS
2000 Western Front Film Jam -Scope John Anderson and Friends
Lotus Hotel Burlesque at Freitag produced by Scott McFarland
1999 Lotus Hotel History produced by Scott McFarland
1996 Sabotage,.Chameleon Club, CFRO, Bands: MKnaomi, Volumizer, (with Rodney Graham)
1994 Diva, Crave, Rave Technology, EDAM Dance, Music West
1993 Star Trip, Summer Love Festival, Land of the Pharoahs, Or & Artspeak Galleries
1992 Vancouver International Film Festival, Kids In Need
1991 First Night, Western Front, Canadian Armed Forces, Coast 1040, Kids In Need
1990 Kinesis Dance, Vancouver Art Gallery
EDUCATION
British Columbia Institute of Technology, Broadcast Television
Emily Carr College of Art, Interdisciplinary Studies
COMMUNITY
2000-2 Helen Pitt Gallery, President, Board of Directors
1998 ICTV (Independent Community Television), Director, Board
1997 BOO Magazine, Advertising Manager
1996 Edgewise Electrolit Center, Videographer
1995-6 CFRO FM News Producer/Programmer & Host
1991-2 Front Magazine, Advertising Manager
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