Toronto International Film Festival announces Samuel Chow exhibition at Craig Scott Gallery

I noted in an earlier posting that our fall season starts with Samuel Chow's I'm Feeling Lucky show. I noted that the exhibition was in association with the Toronto International Film Festival's Future Projections programme. Today, TIFF released its press release on the seven exhibitions that make up the Future Projections programme: CINEMA MEETS THE VISUAL ARTS AT TIFF08 WITH MOVING-IMAGE PROJECTSTHROUGHOUT THE CITY OF TORONTO.

Below are extracts that pertain to the Chow exhibition:

Toronto – The Toronto International Film Festival presents Future Projections, seven installation-based works with inspiredconnections to the history and the culture of cinema. Presented outside the cinema space and throughout Toronto, Future Projections continues a remarkable city-wide collaboration with leading cultural institutions, bolstering Toronto’s reputation as a centre of excellence and innovation. Venues include the Institute of Contemporary Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Stephen Bulger Gallery/CAMERA, Craig Scott Gallery, Katharine Mulherin ContemporaryArt Projects and the Drake Hotel. The seven installations will be offered as free, non-ticketed events.

....This year, Future Projections features a diverse array of moving-image talent, well-known visual artists Glenn Ligon and Margaux Williamson share space on the programme with emerging talents Samuel Chow, multidisciplinary artist Clive Holden and Marco Brambilla, and established film directors Srinivas Krishna and Philip Haas, approaching the gallery for the first time.

...Samuel Chow’s installation I’m Feeling Lucky presents an interconnected web of moving-image narrative paths in a constant flow of internet-derived imagery. Alluding to Google’s pervasive search button, Chow’s “random path network” mirrors our daily surfing experiences. Multi-layered moving-images interweave and collide into a seamless vibrant visual mash-up as Chow remixes and constructs a network of possibilities composed of found online videos, images and sounds from his own surfing expeditions. Our experience as voyeurs leads us into a random environment where anything can happen. Chow’s project highlights the nature of contemporary cinematic experience as heterogeneous, subjective and individually determined.
Curated by Kathleen Mullen, presented by Craig Scott Gallery in association with Future Projections. Craig Scott Gallery, 95 Berkeley Street. September 3 through 27 from Wednesday to Saturday, noon to 6 p.m. and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. Opening September 3 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.