Feminist Land Art Retreat, Screenings

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Feminist Land Art Retreat, "Treatment 6-7," 2016

installation view, Kunsthaus Bregenz Billboards, Bregenz Austria. Image courtesy Kunsthaus Bregenz and the artist.

Feminist Land Art Retreat Screenings June 21, 2017, 6-9pm 

Burrard Marina Field House1655 Whyte Avenue

The Contemporary Art Gallery welcomes the Feminist Land Art Retreat (FLAR) for the summer. Born in 2010 with a rock-concert style poster depicting mirrored images of Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, FLAR transformed this seminal work of land art into something resembling fallopian tubes, while inviting the viewer to a fantasy event. This began FLAR’s conceptual and humorous subversion of familiar visual forms, including fashion, spa advertising, commemorative architecture, and aerial imagery. FLAR has continued appropriating commercial and art-historical images with irony, challenging commonly held notions of how feminism is embodied and expressed.

While in residence, FLAR will continue this trajectory producing work that does not convey an easy political stance — at times feeling like a mockery of feminist Land Art, and at others an earnest homage. Signaling the beginning of the residency, FLAR will screen two recent films, Heavy Flow (2015) made for the Studio for Propositional Cinema Film Festival at MuMok in Vienna and no man’s land (2017) a new piece shown as part of the solo exhibition at ACUD, Berlin. These works typically reveal the ambiguity between reverence and ridicule that places FLAR’s critique outside of established genres.