Using an aesthetic vernacular of the street and everyday life specific to Vancouver, artists Gareth Moore and Jacob Gleeson critique our expectations of throw away objects and lifestyles and provide situations of secondary use value through ready made installation and performance.

Read here for the exhibtion text by Anne Elizabeth Low.

Biographical Information
Jacob Gleeson is a Vancouver based artist who's work explores the phenomenology of daily life in various ways.

Gareth Moore is an artist who lives and works in Vancouver. He is currently looking for someone to take him fishing.

Anne Elizabeth Low is an artist and independent curator who makes her home in Vancouver. She is currently writing a script entitled "Beginner German".

-- Gareth Moore, 2003.

-- Jacob Gleeson, 2003

Sean Alward and Heidi May
Let's Get Lost

Oct.18 to Nov.23, 2003

Is the eye intimately connected to the "I"? Ideated as a sphere, such a slippery object may exist simultaneously within and without us. Although the nature of this blurry separation is normally beyond our intuitive grasp, Heidi May and Sean Alward's current work tasks itself with just such a relation between subject and object. Sharing interests in pictorial consumption and the phenomenology of perception, their work questions how images contribute to a sense of self, reality, and order.
--from an essay accompanying the exhibition by Heather Passmore

Read here for a conversation with the artists.

Click here to visit the exhibition website.

Vanessa Kwan, Josh Neelands and Kara Uzelman
The Comedians

Tuesday, November.4 @ 8pm

Taking its inspiration from a 5-minute stand-up comedy routine, this 2-hour performance uses synchronized gesture and perpetually looped dialogue to recontextualize the experience of creating and consuming entertainment spectacle. Josh, Kara and Vanessa will present themselves as an endlessly repeating “installation” that, in its near mechanical nature, questions our collective perception of the performer as a singular and spontaneous creative genius.

Read here for a conversation with the artists.

A performance by Devon Gifford and Mark Giliiland

Wednesday, Nov.5 @ 8pm

TAKE THAT PAINT!! PUT IT THERE!! YOU CAN DO IT!! CAUSE YOU CARE!!
After quitting art school Devon Gifford has been committed to a year long regiment of physical training for cheerleading. She will perform her "opening cheers" designed to unite the audience in their expression of support for our local artists. She will also be offering studio visit cheers to inspire artists during their creative processes.
ARTISTS HAVE SPIRIT! YES THEY DO!!! THEY HAVE SPIRIT! HOW ABOUT YOU?!!!

Mark Giliiland elucidate virtues of the letter "C" to people, while espousing the trials and tribulations incurred through the process of written creation. Laughter may also be involved.

Colleen Brown
The Will to Love

Sept. 7 to Oct. 11, 2003

He moves his lean yet powerful body with grace, his tall and vibrant frame exuding restless energy. There is an air about him of one born to command the gallery. His curious outward look and enthusiasm draw those around him close. He takes in his surroundings with a touching glance and there is a hint in his ardent, violet eyes that something is immanent. He is all passion and desire; He is preparing to fall in love.
In The Will To Love, Colleen Brown considers a few methods of avoiding solipsism in a world without self, truth, or god.

Read here for a conversation with the artist.

-- Colleen Brown, 2004

Christian Kliegel, Mark Dudiak, Peter Conlin, Intermission Artists Society, Randy Lee Cutler, Alberto Guedea
Facilitating Experimentation

Summer 2003

The Helen Pitt Gallery is committed to realizing opportunities for experimentation and public dialogue involving contemporary art and community. Although our programming will not resume until September of 2003, the gallery remains active. We are providing a public forum for a number of experimental projects during the summer -- extending our community outreach to assist the development of local practices. What follows in this pamphlet is a listing of these events. The statements about each project have been provided by those involved.

Orphan drift
Doublewalker

May 31 to July 5, 2003

Orphan drift, an artists' collective based in San Francisco, London, Oslo and Cape Town, will introduce themselves to Vancouver with a new installation at the Pitt Gallery. DoubleWalker, a sound and visual environment, presents a matrix of remade scenes from well known films, altered in different ways by each member of the collective to extract new viewpoints, creeping up like a cinematic deja vu. The remakes are spliced together with 'original' scenes from the artists' personal experience and choreographed to one sound track. This series of work is preoccupied by the trickster, a figure of traditional mythologies.

Orphan drift engages its dynamic potential to channel twists of fictional incarnation into the everyday. Trickster is the chameleon of communication and guide to spaces between known realities. It is the transforming power of the imagination that pokes, plays with and eventually shatters what seems to be, until it becomes simply what is. Orphan drift first exhibited at the Cabinet Gallery, London 1995. They have shown widely including a piece in the 2000 'Century City' exhibition at the Tate Modern. For more information contact Randy Lee Cutler.

Toni Latour
Dog Eat Dog

April 18 - May 17, 2003

The Helen Pitt Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Vancouver based artist Toni Latour. Working in a variety of disciplines, the content of her practice focuses on her identity as an artist. With humour as its vehicle, her work addresses many of the drives, desires and difficulties involved in art production.

Toni Latour has upcoming exhibitions at SAW Gallery in Ottawa, Gallery 44 in Toronto and ArtSpeak in Vancouver. Latour is also producing and contributing to a CD compilation of audio art by Canadian visual artists. Her video work is available from Art Metropole in Toronto. She teaches Interdisciplinary Media at the University College of the Fraser Valley.

Often depicting the carnivalesque quality of the artist/performer, her work seeks to be both satirically funny and poignantly honest. It describes the self and social scrutiny that go hand in hand with keeping up in the fast paced worlds of art. It also depicts many of the coping mechanisms that accompany such scrutiny. With an air of sincerity, You Can Do It! attempts to satirize the industry of motivation, while it ultimately confronts Latours own artistic anxieties. Through animal imitation, the video and photographic work depicts interior thought processes. In the spirit of General Idea, Latour has often aligned animal behaviour with her own activity as an artist. Dog Eat Dog World becomes a closed, self-referential circuit--an internalized 'dog fight'. It also makes reference to the ever-evolving pecking order of art communities. Finally, Andy, Andy, Ed, Marcel and Me makes historical references to the labour of artists.

Through a cumulative language her practice simultaneously gives voice to self-deprecation; pathos to ambition; value to sincerity; and encouragement to failure. From pep talks to public posturing, her work encompasses both the excitement and apprehension that surround art making today.

Julia Feyrer & Christy Nyiri, Mima Preston & Gareth Moore, Josh Neelands, Ron Tran, Le Petit Mort, Michele DiMenna
Let's Do It Together


Friday February 21, 2003 at 8pm

Curated by Amy Pelletier as a part of the eciad student curatorial co-op program
The Helen Pitt Gallery is pleased to present an evening of perfomance by students from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Curator Amy Pelletier will host an evening of irreverent performance pieces that have been developed collaboratively or are intended to engage their audience. The title 'Let's Do It Together' also exemplified this group of student's interest in working together and their common interests and influences that contribute to tyhe development of their work.

The evenings events include ongoing performances that will start at 8 pm with a video screening at 9:30pm and medical drama by the ensemble 'Le Petit Mort' at 10:30pm. Please join us for this special Helen Pitt Gallery Student Project.

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