Another Feature!

I went to the Belkin Art Gallery on friday and saw a newly opened, solo show of Judy Radul. It was a strange show and I'm still thinking about it, because there was a lot to think about. One part of the gallery was a taping of a court taking place. The rest of the gallery was an installation... with rooms, random pictures, face sculptures, colors, items... and tvs. The other half of the gallery was split in half (rotating walls) and on each side were 5 flat screen televisions... projecting images from the cameras set up around the gallery. This made you extremely concious of what you were doing as you moved through the space, but also made you curious as to what others were doing. One space in the gallery reminded me of a detectives office, or a room in a court house. As you moved through the gallery you would see things that were similar to other objects you had seen previously in the gallery... but it is so hard to put together. I can't even explain it because I had no idea, and some what of an idea of what was going on. Google it. Discover.

Some of what the Belkin is saying about the show on their website:
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World Rehearsal Court, a solo exhibition of new work by Vancouver artist Judy Radul is a large-scale media installation. This work draws on Radul’s research into the role of theatricality and new technologies in the court of law and it questions the distinctions between experience, testimony, truth, and fiction that the law attempts to make distinct. World Rehearsal Court addresses the complexities of real-life experience that the court compresses into written record.

In one aspect of the installation, a seven-channel video work presents a series of courtroom vignettes based on trial transcripts from International Criminal Tribunals. Using a six-camera apparatus to videotape the proceedings, the work takes up the rigidity of the traditional court environment, a theatre where the physical arrangement of the players (judge, defense, prosecution) reflects their roles. In contrast to these pre-recorded court scenes, the other part of the installation is comprised of a series of computer-controlled live cameras that feed to an array of monitors. This use of real-time makes the gallery a theatrical and cinematic space."

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