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"Song Show" combines video artworks and pop music
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Running October 30 to November 21 in the Artlab in Western's John Labatt Visual Arts Centre, "Song Show" is an exhibition of eight video artworks, each of which subjects a particular song to a wild but discerning transformation.
The exhibition explores the use artists have made of the popular song to reflect on its format, its contents, its mythologies and the emotions it engages. With something of the original still intact, each artwork moves the associations and affect of the song onto new terrain. Led Zepplin is played against the the West Coast landscape and at the foot of the stairs of St. Paul's Cathedral; Britney Spears lands in the antebellum cotton fields and Prince in a Glasgow bed-sit.
An opening reception takes place on November 6, 5 to 8 p.m. in the Artlab, John Labatt Visual Arts Centre, The University of Western Ontario. For more information, please visit http://www.songshow.org
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