CONNECTING THE DOTS
Transart Collective
The Cube and BMO Open Gallery
March 24 to June 16, 2012
Curated by Tricia Sellmer, Craig Willms
Connecting the Dots is a multi-gallery project organized by Kamloops-based artist Tricia Sellmer that brings together international artists with artists from the Kamloops region at the Kamloops Art Gallery, Thompson Rivers University Art Gallery and Arnica Artist Run Centre.
At the KAG, Doug Buis and Astrid Menze’s works are projected simultaneously throughout The Cube, exploring the perception of space and time in relation to one’s surroundings. Buis’ clouds drift across the gallery walls interacting with images of Menze’s floating body and domestic objects as they appear to levitate through familiar interior spaces. Doug Buis continues this exploration in a dual screen video in the BMO Open Gallery.
Doug Buis is a Kamloops-based artist and professor in the visual arts department at Thompson Rivers University. Buis’ work investigates perceptions of the landscape and our surrounding environment through a variety of media and conceptual strategies. Astrid Menze completed her MFA in new media program at the Transart Institute and lives and works as an interdisciplinary artist in Berlin. Her practice focuses on time-based media.
Installation view of Doug Buis and Astrid Menze: Connecting the Dots
Doug Buis
Cloud, 2002–12
video projection
Astrid Menze
all inclusive HERE | THEN | THERE | NOW, 2010
single channel video
Photo: Kamloops Art Gallery
