Join us for an artist talk and screening with TAIS Member Libby Hague.
Date: Tuesday July 29, 2014
Time: 6:30 pm
Where: TAIS Studio: 1411 Dufferin St, Unit B, Toronto, ON, M6H 4C7
Admission: pay what you can
CHOIR OF LOVE
Libby Hague
Toronto
19:01 MIN / 2014
STOP FRAME ANIMATION WITH PAINT, CUT PAPER AND OBJECTS, DIGITAL MODIFICATIONS AND PUPPETS
Set on the Aran island of Inisheer, Choir of love conflates the ideas of leaving for a new world and leaving this world. The central metaphor is traveling across the sea, young people looking for opportunity and for love, and old people saying goodbye, a beginning and an ending.
LIBBY HAGUE Bio:
Libby Hague has been exhibiting nationally and internationally since 1972 with over 50 solo exhibitions. These include: Synchromesh, Loop Gallery, Toronto 2013; Sympathetic Connections, Art Gallery of Ontario, 2011 and One step at a time, Art Gallery of Mississauga, 2009. Her group exhibitions and spectacles include All that glows, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 2014; Monster Child, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto, 2013; Biennale internationale d’estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivières, 2013, Xylography – Stylistic Matrix, Galati Visual Art Museum, Romania 2012; IPCNY, NYC, 2012 and 2011; Miner for a Heart, curated by Yael Brotman Melbourne, Australia, 2011; International Paper Art Exhibition and Symposium, Chung Shan National Gallery, Taiwan, 2011 and L’Arte E Il Torchio, Invitational International Biennial, The Civic Art Museum, Cremona, Italy 2011.
She curated Free radicals, a series of puppet play videos for I (Sally McKay at Harbourfront) and continued the idea of incorporating performance in her sculpture installations at YYZ Gallery, (Toronto, 2012) in Be Brave! We are in this together. She has made a number of videos, including Our Town which won the Marion MacMahon Award at the Images Festival, Toronto in 2002.