“The irreducible difference of the other”.
An iconic No Wave figure of New York underground cinema in the 70s, the Irishwoman Vivienne Dick is the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Centre Culturel Irlandais. The exhibition will be opened by the great American photographer Nan Goldin, herself a figure of the movement. The No Wave movement was a free and open gathering of performers, musicians and filmmakers who sought to develop a counter-cultural aesthetic based on the anarchic protest that was so characteristic of punk music. Artist-director Vivienne Dick translates this into a radical exploration of the politics of the sexes, in particular by investigating and explaining the workings of the female unconscious. From her earliest films, she has worked on the style of narration, a linear narrative strongly marked by tensions and blockages. She evolved towards a sublimation of her subjects, dealing with the themes of landscape and exile, while keeping gender equality as her primary concern.
Vivienne Dick ‘s work has been widely exhibited, including at the Centre Pompidou, Tate Britain, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Biennale. She was elected a Fellow of Aosdána in 2007, and her work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Anthology Film Archives in New York, as well as the Irish Film Institute. From September 13 to October 10, 2013, she will be exhibiting at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris.
A three-screen installation, Excluded by the Nature of Thing, to be unveiled at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, returns to one of his favorite themes, the difference linked to female subjectivity, a veritable critique of the male prototype in which property rights and privileges lead to a lack of ethics. A typical, subtle mix of highly personal images punctuated by snippets of narration, documentary, performance and sound.
Vivienne Dick – La différence irréductible de l’autre from September 13 to October 10, 2013 at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5 rue des Irlandais in the 5th arrondissement of Paris.
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