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2007 RESIDENCIES : |
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Kenneth Doren
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 Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre would like to welcome back to Sackville Albertan artist Kenny Doren, who came last year for the Ok Quoi?! Contemporary Arts Festival. This summer, not only will he be participating in Ok. Quoi?!, but thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts and the New Brunswick Arts Board, Doren will spend the rest of the summer in Sackville as an Open Studio Artist in Residence. Doren will arrive on July 30th and will work in an open studio at Struts
Gallery on 7 Lorne Street until September 1st. Doren is a multimedia artist and often works in musical composition, video, and installation. His music compositions rejuvenates classical music into the modern scene by reintroducing classical pieces from famous composers and using them to create his own musical compilations. One example of Doren’s style can be seen in his recent work Immortal Misbegotten, where Doren recreates Beethoven’s famous six Op. 18 String Quartets by combining, cutting, slowing down and speeding up sections to create a new piece . Through this new composition and accompanying installation Doren evokes new perspectives on the original piece and also reflects on the hearing loss Beethoven experienced during the period when he was originally composing the music. As well in many of Doren’s compositions, he combines the historical with the contemporary to create powerful and engaging pieces. There is power in the presentation of Kenneth Doren’s musical works. The unique way Doren combines his music in a technological display makes his message stronger and his artwork even more fascinating. Often Doren’s installments allow audiences to experience his artwork and music in an interactive and personal way. In Doren’s project Monarchy Suite for Birth, music which was composed for the birth of Charles I is combined with Queen Elizabeth II’s eulogy for the funeral of Princess Diana. The music is divided into 36 sections which are played through individual speakers suspended from the ceiling. Only one part of the music can be heard while standing under one speaker, so to experience the entire piece audiences must move throughout the entire room. In this way. one person’s experience is completely different than another’s. Using video, projection, live performance, and a range of technological devices Doren creates the perfect atmosphere for his artwork to captivate and inspire his audiences.
Kenny will also be the second Artist in Residence to participate in Struts' new blog system. Click here to read his blog. |
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Kenny Doren will host two D&D (Dance and Documentary) evenings at Struts Gallery. For all of you who love a great documentary and/or to "shake your groove thing" it's sure to be a fun evening! Here are the details: |
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August 25th
Africville, a small black settlement, lay within the city limits of Halifax, Nova Scotia. In the 1960s, the families who lived there were uprooted and their homes demolished in the name of urban renewal and integration. Now, more than twenty years later, the site of the community of Africville is a stark, under-utilized park. Former residents, their descendants and some of the decision-makers, speak out and, with the help of archival photographs and films, tell the story of that painful relocation.
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Documentary about writer and performance artist Bob Flanagan who died at 43 of cystic fibrosis. His life was indicated by pain from the beginning and he started to develop sadomasochistic practices, which he developed finally into performances. DANCING TO FOLLOW! |
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August 31st
The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters. Intercut with a 1972 interview of Waters are clips from his first films and recent interviews with his parents, his brother, Divine's mom, actors and crew, other directors, film critics, a film curator, psychologists, and Maryland's last censor, who shudders at the memory of Waters's pictures. Also included is footage of Waters making his early movies, culminating in an up-close and in-depth look at Pink Flamingos: the script, the set, the filming conditions, its editing, its distribution, and its impact. DANCING TO FOLLOW! |
scroll through the gallery to see images from the night |
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| BACK TO RESIDENCIES 2007 | |||||
Visitors to Struts Gallery are welcome to visit Kenneth Doren in his studio at 7 Lorne St to see his music, art, and installation projects as they are being created. Another opportunity to see Doren is during OK. Quoi!? Creative Lab at his workshop: Audio for Installation. The influence of music on an installation will be discussed during the workshop and participants will work with recording and editing software. Along with this, Doren will hold other events for the community that will be announced at a later date. In short, Kenneth Doren’s residency is sure liven up both the music and art communities in Sackville during the last of these lazy summer months. 
Remember Africville
Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
Divine Trash