Vancouver artist, Stan Douglas, will be exhibiting Humor, Irony and the Law at the David Zwirner Gallery in New York City from October 30 - December 23, 2008.
The installation, comprising of video and digital print, depicts moments in time in Vancouver history. One of which, "Abbott & Cordova" highlights a tense scene between hippies and Vancouver police before the now infamous Gastown riot. The final work is composed of fifty different shots taken with the camera in the exact same position.
Gastown Riot history
Archived CBC video
"Powell Street Grounds" depicts a 1912 Industrial Workers of the World Free Speech Demonstration held in the Downtown Eastside just as the crowd is being broken up by the police.
This image is composed of twenty different shots taken with the camera in the exact same position.
Humor, Irony and the Law also includes, "Ballantyne Pier, 18 June 1935," "Hastings Park, 16 July 1955," "Vidéo," and "Les Grands Moulins de Pantin."
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