Ghostwriter 5

Curated by Millie Chen
Featuring Michelle Gay, Janice Kerbel, Evelyn Von Michalofski

Project Room
June 26 - August 2, 1997

Mercer Union is pleased to present

Ghostwriter 5, the last in a series of five

project room exhibitions which posit art

making and writing as interlocked

processes. Each exhibition is a

collaborative project formed by the

fusion of the Ghostwriter/curator and the

artist(s) he/she chooses to work with.

Each Ghostwriter was selected based

on their own visual and written

productions, which reflect a diversity of

disciplines and communities.

   The distilled group presentation of individual explorations delves into the mysticisms of science and women's manipulations of technology to undermine its own dominant language. Through the slow and intense labour of transcribing a repeated, cryptic, computer-generated code onto cloth by hand-stitching, Michelle Gay inserts her own disruptive presence into the digital terrain. Janice Kerbel plays with suspension of disbelief and acts of deception by reconstructing herself in the role of the magician and the femme fatale; she conjures up the slippery trick of the disappearing act as part of her craft.

Evelyn Von Michalofski's potently emptied articles of clothing are combined with a brimming container of St. John's wort oil to dispel disturbances and to heal the chemical and spiritual body. Together with Millie Chen's writing, which interests physically and conceptually with the artworks, this exhibition will work upon the viewer as visual and textual incantations for acts of incorporeal transformation.

Millie Chen has exhibited extensively throughout Ontario included the "Young Contemporaries "97" at the London Regional Art & Historical Museums and the Gairloch Gallery in Oakville, 1996.

Michelle Gay has had her CD's, bookworks and installations exhibited throughout North America in 1996, including the New York Short Film Festival and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery.

   Janice Kerbel has exhibited her solo exhibition antidote at YYZ in 1996 and has recently completed her Masters of Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London, England.

Evelyn Von Michalofski has collaborated with Millie Chen on the "Yurtopia" projects which have been exhibited at Open Studio and the Red Head Gallery in Toronto and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in 1995.
   

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