Looking for Love in the Hall of Mirrors
October 17, 2002
Performance Art
About the Program
Depicting visual and emotional vignettes, Looking for Love in the Hall of Mirrors is Daniel Barrow's third graphic-performance. This live illustration traces and develops the internal dialogue of a common (sub)cultural archetype—the acerbic old queen. Barrow has created and adapted a comic book narrative to a "manual" form of animation on an overhead projector, accompanied by a live monologue and an electronic score by audio artist Jeffrey Cressman. A foppish man of nebulous age leaves the farm and moves to the city (ostensibly Winnipeg) to begin a committed and confused pursuit of love and artistic success. The narrative expounds upon dualistic themes from previous work: beauty vs ugliness, genius vs idiocy, and the balancing of one's talents with advancing physical shortcomings. Many of the protagonist's sermons address the politics of a sexually-charged landscape, and so the piece also obliquely addresses conformity in the queer community.Musician
Jeffrey CressmanArtist
Daniel BarrowCredits
Performance Assistants: Daina Warren and Elaine MoyahIdentifier
2002.1017 LOOCollection
grunt gallery Programming ArchiveLocation
grunt gallery (second location)116-350 E. 2nd Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 4R8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations
In copyright. For uses beyond Fair Dealing, research requests, corrections, takedown requests, or other inquiries, please contact grunt gallery: archives@grunt.ca