FEELINGS

Feelings
This exhibition proposes to examine the element of feeling and emotion in media art as a means to disrupt the homogenous and immersive space of the mediatic and virtual realms. The artists in the exhibition negotiate the dynamics between emotional affect, and its portrayal through the sterility and distance of media art.

Historically, the subject of embodiment, or the transition of the human body from a physical to a virtual space, has taken centre-stage to media artists’ concerns. In Latin America and its diaspora, media and performance artists have featured the body precisely due to its precarity amidst geo-political and social violence. However, this exhibition attempts to move beyond the discussion of embodiment to include the dimension of psychology and the spectrum of emotions (such as anger, love, hate, resentment, admiration, and devotion) as a politicized state of being that is activated through media. In the context of aluCine, and filmmaking as a genre, this exhibition will also explore the formal tropes and stereotypes of the Latin-American dramatic character.

The artists proposed for this exhibition include a selection of Latin-Canadian media artists, including soJin Chun (Ontario) alongside international well-known artists Gabriela Goder (Argentina), Ximena Cuevas (México), Nelly César Marín (Vancouver/Mexico), and video-performance artist Christian Jankowski (Germany). We have chosen a combination of emerging and established artists because their work points to different appearances of feelings that play off of each other to draw out points of interest and contradictions. These tensions destabilize stereotypes of the Latin-American dramatic character, and use the medium to evoke and reveal an economy of emotion at play.