Everything Needs Everything, Open Images: Open Narrative, Installation view
Artist: Libby Hague
Work ID: 68835
Description: Two person Exhibition with Yael Brotman. Installation at Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland, 2006.
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Date Made: 2006
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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Work by Libby Hague
Whirligig [daytime clip]
Artist: Libby Hague
Work ID: 49196
Description: 2000 [daytime clip: 27 sec.]
[documentation of an installation at the Natural Light Window Gallery, 506 Adelaide St. West, Toronto, Ontario - on view October 2 - 31, 2000]
At the front of this gallery are two picture windows and a glass door. From the street, you can see the installation through the windows during the gallery owner's waking hours. It will be particularly dramatic after dark.
The installation has a foreground and a background. Two small sculptures, a hunter with a gun and a guardian angel, revolve in opposite directions close to the window. A cluster of figures is projected on a scrim in the background, a little like javanese puppet theatre.
A guardian angel follows a curious boy, who follows the hunter who follows the soldiers. Like most looped sequences, one pursues another in a continual procession of unfulfilled desire.
Production Centre: InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Toronto.
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Date Made: 2000
Materials: video
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Parade
Artist: Libby Hague
Work ID: 49193
Description: 2000 [beta sp, vhs, mini-dv, 720 x 480: stereo: 6 min. 25 sec.]
[This work is also available for a double looped projection. Each screen 720 x 480]
Parade is a masked procession which begins playfully but slides out of control. Without spoken dialogue (but using found sound), the two video components rely on a dense visual texture to shift from play to violence, mingling the sentimental with the destructive. On the right side, watercolor figures are collaged on video footage of actual parades. The left side relies on archival footage of a political campaign and "some of the backroom boys" for a relentlessly approving audience. Structurally, the inherent visual conflict of the two screens embodies the tension between the audience and the actors. Since the left screen audience is made of a shorter loop, the two halves converge and interact at unpredictable times, posing questions about the complicity of onlookers.
Production Centre: InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Toronto.
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Date Made: 2000
Materials: video
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Whirligig [nighttime clip]
Artist: Libby Hague
Work ID: 49197
Description: 2000 [nighttime clip: 21 sec.]
[documentation of an installation at the Natural Light Window Gallery, 506 Adelaide St. West, Toronto, Ontario - on view October 2 - 31, 2000]
At the front of this gallery are two picture windows and a glass door. From the street, you can see the installation through the windows during the gallery owner's waking hours. It will be particularly dramatic after dark.
The installation has a foreground and a background. Two small sculptures, a hunter with a gun and a guardian angel, revolve in opposite directions close to the window. A cluster of figures is projected on a scrim in the background, a little like javanese puppet theatre.
A guardian angel follows a curious boy, who follows the hunter who follows the soldiers. Like most looped sequences, one pursues another in a continual procession of unfulfilled desire.
Production Centre: InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Toronto.
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Date Made: 2000
Materials: video
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Our Town [start clip]
Artist: Libby Hague
Work ID: 49194
Description: 2001/2002 [beta sp, SVHS and VHS - 9:10 min. / start clip: 1 min. 39 sec.]
A child's society - its vitality, violence and distance from the adult world is underscored by the suicide of a friend's mother. The slippage between the child's and adult's world is personified by a technique of static animation in which hundreds of watercolour, ink drawings are superimposed on an out-of-register real world, composed of a nine minute dolly shot of a suburban housing project.
Production Centre: InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Toronto.
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Date Made: 2001-2002
Materials: video
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Our Town [middle clip]
Artist: Libby Hague
Work ID: 49195
Description: 2001/2002 [beta sp, SVHS and VHS - 9:10 min. / middle clip: 2 min. 28 sec.]
A child's society - its vitality, violence and distance from the adult world is underscored by the suicide of a friend's mother. The slippage between the child's and adult's world is personified by a technique of static animation in which hundreds of watercolour, ink drawings are superimposed on an out-of-register real world, composed of a nine minute dolly shot of a suburban housing project.
Production Centre: InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Toronto.
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Date Made: 2001-2002
Materials: video
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
my neighbour is crazy!
Artist: Libby Hague
Work ID: 49192
Description: 2002 [1 min. 32 sec.]
[documentation of installation at (Rupen's) Natural Light Window, Oct 2 - 31, 2002. NW corner, Adelaide and Portland Streets, Toronto]
Two children stand in the middle of their respective "backyards" paved with an eccentric collection of hats. Caught in the lights of oscillating fans, they are spyed out and chased by crazy clowns. Arms flailing, the children run away in an endless cycle of pursuit. This installation takes as one of its starting points the fact that the gallery has a mirrored layout. This presented an opportunity to think about neighbourhoods and borders and our impatience and dismissal of those on the other side of the fence. Here, as elsewhere, everyone is the crazy neighbour.
Website: my neighbour is crazy!
Production Centre: InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Toronto.
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Date Made: 2002
Materials: video
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Everything Needs Everything, Installation view – corner, detail
Artist: Libby Hague
Work ID: 68832
Description: Installation at Open Studio, Toronto, 2006.
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Date Made: 2005
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Everything Needs Everything, Installation view – corner
Artist: Libby Hague
Work ID: 68830
Description: Installation at Open Studio, Toronto, 2006.
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Date Made: 2005
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Everything Needs Everything, Installation view – corner, detail
Artist: Libby Hague
Work ID: 68831
Description: Installation at Open Studio, Toronto, 2006.
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Date Made: 2005
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Everything Needs Everything, Installation view
Artist: Libby Hague
Work ID: 68834
Description: Installation at Loop Gallery, Toronto, 2006.
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Date Made: 2005
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Everything Needs Everything, Installation view – right wall
Artist: Libby Hague
Work ID: 68833
Description: Installation at Open Studio, Toronto, 2006.
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Date Made: 2005
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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Everything Needs Everything, Open Images: Open Text, Installation view
Artist: Libby Hague
Work ID: 68836
Description: Two person Exhibition with Yael Brotman. Installation at Mount St. Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2006.
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Date Made: 2006
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Rehearsal for Disaster, Installation view, detail
Artist: Libby Hague
Work ID: 68839
Description: Installation at Harbourfront, Toronto, 2006.
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Date Made: 2006
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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Rehearsal for Disaster, Installation view
Artist: Libby Hague
Work ID: 68838
Description: Installation at Harbourfront, Toronto, 2006.
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Date Made: 2006
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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Rehearsal for Disaster, Installation view, detail
Artist: Libby Hague
Work ID: 68841
Description: Installation at Harbourfront, Toronto, 2006.
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Date Made: 2006
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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Rehearsal for Disaster, Installation view, detail
Artist: Libby Hague
Work ID: 68840
Description: Installation at Harbourfront, Toronto, 2006.
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Date Made: 2006
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Everything Needs Everything, Open Images: Open Narrative, Installation view
Artist: Libby Hague
Work ID: 68835
Description: Two person Exhibition with Yael Brotman. Installation at Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland, 2006.
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Date Made: 2006
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Everything Needs Everything, Open Images: Open Text, Installation view, detail
Artist: Libby Hague
Work ID: 68837
Description: Two person Exhibition with Yael Brotman. Installation at Mount St. Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2006.
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Date Made: 2006
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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Avalanche
Artist: Libby Hague
Work ID: 68842
Description: Installation at Offthemap Gallery, Toronto, 2007.
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Date Made: 2007
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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
