Bad Boys: Portraits of Mediated Performance

January 9 – February 6, 2010
Exhibition, Performance Art

About the Program

Sean George explains of Bad Boys: Portraits of Mediated Performance: My fervent desire with this exhibit is to call up the imaginary, the symbolic, the structure and the soul that is the monolithic experience of masculinity. I have attempted to lay out this experience in three aesthetic approaches—the salon, a collaged wall of chaos, an intermingling map of sorts of images, text and costumes. The second is the personal: inviting friends to reflect on their relationships with fathers, brothers, grandfathers, uncles, sons and husbands. The final addresses the way in which singular famous individuals are canonized from an explosion of tabloid material to the contextual cage that we participate in building for them. The victims of my iconoclastic gunpowder are Mike Tyson, Michael Jackson, Conrad Black, Robert Mugabe, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Prince William, and Prince Harry.

Artist

Sean George

Curator

Glenn Alteen

Identifier

2010.0109 BAD

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