Nicole Rayburn - Two Propositions

Nicole Rayburn

/NICOLE RAYBURN
TWO PROPOSITIONS

/STRIDE PROJECT ROOM LOWER LEVEL. 1004 MACLEOD TRAIL SE.
/EXHIBITION OCTOBER 15 TO NOVEMBER 12, 2010.
.../RECEPTION FRIDAY OCTOBER 15, 2010 AT 8PM, ARTIST IN ATTENDANCE.
/PART OF M:ST5 PERFORMATIVE ART FESTIVAL – OCTOBER 8 - 22/2010
www.mstfestival.org

/DETAILS
My current studio production explores the terrain of multi-media video and performance installations to examine human-animal machine relations. Spanning references from Pinocchio and Frankenstein to Tasmanian Tigers and Battlestar Galactica, this series of absurd propositions engages with issues of boundary, transgression, the monstrous ‘other’, and human/non-human relations. Through these inquiries, I examine the hierarchical and exclusionary presuppositions that support particular notions of boundary, and, ultimately, aim to promote non-pejorative understandings of difference.

I enjoy the absurd and subtly perverse. I often wear animal costumes and proffer questionable propositions. I seek to disrupt embedded preconceptions, dissipate hierarchical constructions, and celebrate relations of difference. I am a graduate of the University of Western Ontario Master of Fine Arts program and currently reside in Toronto, Ontario.

/INFORMATION
The Stride Art Gallery Association
1004 MacLeod Trail SE
Calgary AB T2G 2M7
403 262 8507
stride2@telusplanet.net
Stride is open to the public from 11 AM - 5 PM, Tuesday – Saturday.
Admission is free and all are welcome.
www.stride.ab.ca