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NUIT BLANCHE 2009: KATHERINE BISCHOPING INTERVIEW

DateThursday, October 29, 2009 at 6:26PM | AuthorZhina Jalali

I had the chance to speak with Katherine Bischoping, curator for Nuit Blanche exhibit Things Fall Apart before the show. Professor of Sociology at York University, Katherine was nothing like the stereotypical intellectual, rather, she spoke in a friendly tone, and seemed extremely excited and passionate about the art projects.

For a list of the artists involved in Things Fall Apart, click here. Make sure to look for, possibly, another one-of-a-kind exhibit involving Bischoping at Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2010.

 

SHARP OBJEX: What made you want to curate this exhibit?

Katherine Bischoping: The kind of people that I was coming to know as I delved more into the arts, and realized that several of them were working on the same theme in different ways.

It began in 2007 when I wrote a play that tried to examine moments at which animate subjects were treated like objects, and also when objects were treated as though people. For example, if someone dies and is cremated, how is it that we treat those ashes as though they are still the person? In what ways do we continue on this planet and in what ways do we just break down into atoms that have no connection to us?

SO: What does the exhibit consist of?

KB: There are films, photographs, and we have some sculptures and jewellery [right, 
by Taibe Palacios].

In ‘Things Fall Apart’, we have some very spectacular photographs and short film made by an artist who goes around ghost towns all around Ontario. So, she's watching those abandoned buildings slowly decay and become part of the wildlife, part of the nature in which they are found. She (Susan Foster) has returned to some of them over many years.

SO: The short film shows decaying buildings over a period of time?

KB: No, it's a short film about a variety of different places.  

We have a total of five films. One of them is about the ghost towns. One of them is about someone's immigration experiences, a feeling of confusion during her immigration as a child, so that her life was falling apart around her.

We have one film made by Sarah Lochhead, a dancer who is looking at how the idea of truth can fall apart. For example, if I tell you a memory, and then you tell my memory to someone else and someone else and someone else and so on, what exactly is the truth of what happened to me? Is there a truth? And that's a very beautiful little film. It is interesting to see a dancer physically demonstrate a concept like truth falling apart.

SO: What are the sculptures made of?

KB: Well, there is a very bizarre sculpture by Annie Tung involving human teeth. It's a necklace made from pieces of spoons and in those are resting teeth set on silver. So first you think what you see are spoons and what is in them is food - they look like mussel shells. But then you realize, oh my God, those are teeth, as though the act of eating can itself be consumed.

Another artist, Michelle Johnson, had some Ronald McDonald dolls that she melted down. She is going to create a spill on the gallery floor. There's going to be this large pool. People will think, is that an accident? She makes us wonder, when is something art and when is it an accident? And why is it that we can still recognize Ronald McDonald, even when he's melted down into a pool of mustard and ketchup colours?

SO: As a sociologist, do you find this form of visual communication to be more effective than written communication?

KB: I think that when we have written communication, we expect a more limited range of interpretation to be possible. Visual work can say things that go beyond what language is able to say. That is sort of a realization for me because, as an academic, I mostly work with words and text. Exploring this world of visual possibilities, which is much greater, has been very fascinating.

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