November 26, 2010 – January 23, 2011
Opening: Thursday November 25, 7–9 pm

Commencing from Alfred Jarry’s invention of “pataphysics” (the science of imaginary solutions), Victoria-based Curatorial Collective, Noxious Sector (Doug Jarvis and Ted Hiebert), will undertake More Often Than Always / Less Often Than Never. Artists from around the world will propose imaginary solutions to real questions, according to their own notions of imagination and reality. A century after Jarry, both science and the artistic imaginary have evolved. Science is no longer subject to simple true/false answers. Instead uncertainty, probability, multi-dimensional theories of resonance patterns, strings and branes and virtual anti-partner particles have been imagined into existence so the explanations themselves would make sense. The Curators will holding a series of séances with Alfred Jarry to make the final selection of projects.

http://www.noxioussector.net/motalotn.html

Artists
hannah_g
Julie Gendron & Emma Hendrix
Tetsushi Higashino
Gordon Lebredt
Chikako Maria Mori & Boris Nieslony
François Mathieu
Arjuna Neuman
Anne-Marie Proulx


RELATED PROGRAMMING

Storytelling performance
Friday, January 21 · 3:00pm - 6:00pm
Richmond Art Gallery

Story-teller in Residence, hannah_g, will present a storytelling performance in response to the other seven artists' works in the More Often Than Always/Less Often Than Never exhibition and the Richmond Art Gallery itself. She will compile her discoveries into small booklets, and also disseminate it via posters, stickers, and chalking around the Gallery and in Richmond and Vancouver.


Exploring the Absurd: Animated Talk and Performance
Saturday, January 22 · 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Performance Hall, Richmond Cultural Centre

What does a séance, a clothes dryer and quantum physics have to do with art? Join in the discussion as we look at how the absurd and the imagination are used in contemporary art practices. Curators Doug Jarvis and Ted Hiebert and performance by story-teller in residence, hannah_g.


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Left: Ted Hiebert & Doug Jarvis, Magnetically Inclined - #3, 2007, 36” x 20”, ink-jet photo print