Eastside Culture Crawl and Cineworks present “Animism-Animal-Animation”, an evening with Marina Roy
Eastside Culture Crawl and Cineworks present:
Animism-Animal-Animation
An Evening with Marina Roy
Friday, November 22
6:30pm doors / 7:00pm start
THE ARTS FACTORY
281 Industrial Ave
Tickets: $5
Limited seating, purchase tickets here:
https://animism-animal-animation.eventbrite.ca
Animism-Animal-Animation takes as starting point an unconscious tendency within modernity that linked the animal, optical-mechanical forms of animation, and the belief that matter is animate and ‘agential’ rather than inert and passive. Through the 19th and early 20th century, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Freud’s book Totem and Taboo, and Étienne-Jules Marey and Edweard Muybridge’s experiments with animal motion are important examples of this imaginary, revealed. These aesthetic-scientific fantasies gave birth to animation and cinema. Early audiences were fascinated by the illusion of reality that unfolded before their eyes, first believing it to be real, then suspending their disbelief so that the illusion maintained an enchantment. This screening will showcase works by Winsor McKay, Weronika Stepien, Jim Trainor, Jan Svankmajer, and Marina Roy.
Marina Roy is a Vancouver-based artist and writer, and associate professor in visual art at the University of British Columbia. She works across a variety of media—drawing, painting, sculpture, video, and animation. Her artwork investigates the grotesque, at the intersection of language, image, and materiality, and her research interests include ecology, posthumanism, psychoanalysis, and biopolitics. In 2001 she published sign after the x (Arsenal/Artspeak); her newest book Queuejumping (Information Office) will come out in spring 2020. In 2010 she was recipient of the VIVA art award. She has exhibited and screened her work nationally and internationally.