Rosalind Nashashibi: Bachelor Machines Presented by: Not Available
OCAD Professional Gallery to host filmmaker Rosalind Nashashibi's Canadian debut
Two films by internationally renowned artist Rosalind Nashashibi, Bachelor Machines Parts I and II, anchor the summer program of the OCAD Professional Gallery at the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD).
Never before seen in Canada, Bachelor Machines Part I (2007) premiered at the Scottish pavilion in last year’s Venice Biennale. The 16mm work was filmed on an Italian freighter sailing from Italy to the Baltic Sea. “Bachelor Machines I portrays the single-sex society of men aboard a cargo ship, and describes the machine that they serve as much as the men themselves,” said Nashashibi, who calls the ship “a bachelor-maker, for the way of life it imposes.”
Bachelor Machines Part II (2007), presented here for the first time outside Europe, comprises two simultaneously screened projections. On the left appears artist Thomas Bayrle and his wife Helke, while on the right are interwoven altered scenes from Nashashibi’s earlier works. The soundtrack plays Bayrle’s voice describing his apocalyptic vision of our machine-dominated world. Nashashibi describes the term ‘Bachelor Machines’ as encompassing something sexual — simultaneously masculine and emasculating.
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Starts: Jun 25, 2008
Ends: Aug 31, 2008
At: OCAD Professional Gallery, 100 McCaul Street, Level 2, Toronto Playing: Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Times: 1 pm - 7 pm, Sat Sun 12 pm - 6 pm Cost: Free
Getting there:
For more information contact:
Curator Charles Reeve Phone:
416-977-6000 Email:
creeve@ocad.ca
