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Endeavour artist: Frances Leeming |
| The Media Gallery, in the Department of Communication Studies, in partnership with the Mobile Media Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the new exhibition, Endeavour, by performance and media artist Frances Leeming. Endeavour runs from September 7th until October 15th, in the Media Gallery, CJ Building 1.419, located at Concordia University’s Loyola campus, 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday 9:00 am – 4:45 pm and Friday 9:00 am – 12:45 pm. This exhibition, consisting of two animated film loops and a separate audio-track, is a wry and whimsical response to such historical but failed initiatives as the Women’s Space Program (1960), characterized as “prefeminist agitation” and a threat to NASA’s manned space exploration. |
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| Biography Frances Leeming’s work explores the relationship between gender, technology, and consumerism. Leeming’s media projects have been exhibited internationally and her films have been collected by the National Gallery of Canada and Cornell University. Her collage animation, Genetic Admiration (2005) was nominated for numerous festival prizes and won the grand prize at Toronto’s Images Festival (2005). Her performance and film work has been written about by numerous critics and historians and has been published in several anthologies. Leeming, a graduate of Concordia University and a former professor in Communication Studies, now teaches in the Department of Film and Media at Queen’s University. For additional information, please call 514-848-2424 x2555 [mp3_embed playlst="http://mobilemediagallery.org/wp-content/plugins/mp3-player-plugin-for-wordpress/mp3/Francis_edit.mp3"] |