That ends that matter | Visite guidée en français avec Evin Collis
February 16, 2019 – 3pm
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art | 1, 460 Portage Ave | Winnipeg MB | Canada
Le samedi 16 février à 15 h, Evin Collis a donné un tour guidé GRATUIT en français de l’exposition “That ends that matter” par Jean-Paul Kelly.
“That ends that matter” était une installation de vidéo compréhensive qui déroule dans une salle d’audience. Une part reconstitution combinée avec des montages des photos retrouvées et d’animations graphiques, Jean-Paul Kelly a tenté de réciter ses expériences d’observation des audiences dans le tribunal de la Cité de Londres dans le centre de Londres, Royaume-Uni. Le règlement du Royaume-Uni restreint toutes les formes d’enregistrement vidéo et audio dans les salles d’audience, donc toutes les récollections d’événements durant une audience deviennent subjectives. Dans un effort de raconter ce que l’artiste appelle un « compte rendu équitable » de ce qu’il a constaté, les expériences de Kelly ont fusionné dans une embrassade d’abstraction, de tangentes, d’erreurs et d’esthétisation des expériences ressenties par Kelly. Né à Londres (Ontario) et basé à Toronto, Kelly a traversé au cours de la dernière décennie une série des oeuvres qui ont agrandi pour inclure des dessins, des images retrouvées, de l’animation, du son, de la photographie et du vidéo, qui tous adressent des idées déstabilisées de la vérité dedans un cadre documentaire. “That ends that matter” a été la première présentation des oeuvres de Jean-Paul Kelly à Winnipeg et dans les prairies. Son travail a été largement exposé partout en l’Amérique du Nord et l’Europe. Toute la programmation était gratuite et ouverte au public.
Plug In Institut d’art contemporain reconnait que nous nous sommes situés sur le territoire visé par le traité no 1 et que les terres sur lesquelles nous sommes rassemblés font partie du territoire traditionnel des peuples anishinabé, cri, oji-cri, dakota et déné, et de la patrie de la nation métisse.
Programmation complémentaire a inclus:
Projection vidéo organisée par Jean-Paul Kelly: le jeudi 7 mars à 19 h
Tour guidé avec curatrice Jenifer Papararo: le samedi 9 mars à 15 h
Saturday, February 16th at 3:00 PM, Evin Collis conducted a FREE curated tour in French for the exhibition, “That ends that matter” by Jean-Paul Kelly.
Jean-Paul Kelly’s solo-exhibition, That ends that matter, was a comprehensive video installation set in a courtroom. Part re-enactment combined with found-photo montage streams and graphical animation, That ends that matter attempted to parse through and recite Kelly’s experiences observing hearings at the City of London Magistrates’ Court in Central London, UK. Given the UK’s regulations restricting all forms of visual or audio recording in courtrooms, any recollection of events throughout a hearing becomes subjective. In an effort to recount what the artist, referencing documentarian Fredrick Wiseman, calls a “fair account” of what he witnessed, there was an embrace of abstraction, tangents, error, and the aestheticization of Kelly’s felt experiences.
Over the last decade and a half, Toronto based Kelly, has worked closely with a practice rooted in dissecting documentary frameworks. In an earlier interview for Vdrome.org, Kelly referenced the writer Truman Capote’s work as “poetic reporting”— a process that Kelly embraced. Kelly stated, “I’m interested in the metaphors and possibilities of documentary substance.”
This was the first presentation of Jean-Paul Kelly’s work in Winnipeg and in the prairies. He has extensively exhibited and screened works across North America and Europe including The Power Plant, Toronto; Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Art, Toronto; Gallery TPW, Toronto; Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto; SBC Gallery, Montreal; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; Vox Populi, Philadelphia; Nightingale Cinema, Chicago; Courtesan Festival, Ghent; International Film Festival, Rotterdam; The New York Film Festival; The Toronto International Film Festival and Delfina Foundation, London UK. In 2014, he was the recipient of the Kazuko Trust Award from the Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York. He’s been longlisted for the Sobey Art Award and the AIMIA|AGO Photography Prize.
Video Screening curated by Jean-Paul Kelly:
Thursday, March 7 | 7pm
Curatorial Tour, Jenifer Papararo:
Saturday March 9 | 3pm
Acknowledgements
Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art recognizes we are on Treaty One Territory, the traditional territories of the Anishinaabe, Métis, Cree, Dakota, Dene, and Oji-Cree Nations.
Production of That ends that matter was made possible through funding support of Ontario Arts Council with additional research support from the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Kuzuko Trust Award and Delfina Foundation’s family of individual supporters.
Plug In ICA extends our gratitude to our artists, generous donors, valued members and dedicated volunteers. With special thanks to our Director’s Circle.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council. We could not operate without their continued financial investment and lobbying efforts.
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Please note: this exhibition contained explicit sexual and violent material, and might not be suitable for all ages. Please use discretion.
Image: Still from “That ends that matter,” Jean-Paul Kelly, 2016, three-channel video installation.