Metallic: A Fish Film

January 5 – February 10, 2007
Screening, Artist Talk, Exhibition, Performance Art

About the Program

Carole Itter's Metallic: A Fish Film consisted of a film screening, a performance, and an exhibition. In the video—filmed and edited by Bo Myers—an elder fisherwoman, draped in a shredded collage of reflective cloth, observes a school of silvery fish-like shapes bobbing in the water which triggers in her an atavistic compulsion to set a net and begin harvesting 'fish' from the once plentiful but now moribund ocean. A central section of sixteen silvery cushions, representing the surface of the ocean, on a gradually sloping platform was flanked by two silver cloth panels that undulated by means of two electric fans to suggest wave action. On the opposite wall, a handmade silver patchwork quilt, somewhat traditional in design but unorthodox in its variations of silvery cloth material, was mounted.

For the opening night performance, Itter was joined by cellist Peggy Lee. The Fish Film was projected onto wide sheets of quality drawing paper with two slide projectors mounted at a 45 degree angle to the 'screen,' showing slides of stills from the moving image. The artist stepped into the freeze-framed image of the film at the points where the two projectors replicated the same image to undertake the large drawing of that image. An artist talk was presented on January 20, 2007.

Artist

Carole Itter

Musician

Peggy Lee

Identifier

2007.0105 MET

Collection

grunt gallery Programming Archive

Location

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