Bad Timing

06.02.15 – 27.02.15
Vtape, Curatorial Incubator Research Residency v.12 “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Brat”

‍Steve Reinke (Chicago, IL), Vincent Chevalier (Toronto, ON), StevenEastwood (London, EN), Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby (Syracuse, NY),John Marriott (Toronto, ON), and Laurel Woodcock (Guelph, ON).

Bad Timing examines the temporal instability of dark humour, highlighting the ways in which laughter occurs when our expectation of the causal structure of the world is unfulfilled. Through the medium of video, the camera produces both a representational index of the artist and an irrefutable proof of the disembodied absence of the speaking subject. When we perceive something to be either too true or too untrue, we enter afield of semantic ambiguity founded upon a displacement of the logic of origins, preceding speaking subjects, and fundamental structuring of authoritative “active speech” itself. ­Bad Timing proposes that this ambiguity should be read not as a closure, but as an opening that enables new modes of perception.

Images courtesy of Vtape