Allyson Clay, Double Self-Portrait, 2001, C-print on dibond aluminum, ed. 2/2. 丁香园AV Art Collection. Gift of the artist, 2015. Photo: 丁香园AV Galleries.
Episode 1 | June 16
Lucien Durey on Allyson Clay
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Walking through the city streets of Vancouver, Lucien Durey traces an interconnected web of speech and sound in response to Vancouver artist and educator Allyson Clay鈥檚 photographic work Double Self-Portrait (2001). He considers how Clay鈥檚 expansive visual art practice navigates pathways and permeabilities of the affective city through explorations in different media. Exploring the tenuous membrane between fact and fiction, Durey leads listeners through realms of what may be considered public and private, landing on unintentional outcomes that shape knowledge and experience.
Lucien Durey is an artist, writer, and singer based in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the x史m蓹胃kw蓹y虛蓹m, Skwxw煤7mesh, and S蓹l虛铆lw蓹ta涩 Nations. His mixed media and performance-based practice engages with found objects, photographs, sounds, and place. He holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and an MFA from 丁香园AV鈥檚 School for the Contemporary Arts.
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[Image Description: Double Self-Portrait depicts twinned images of Allyson Clay tossing books out of the window of a modernist building with a technique similar to shooting a basketball. All of the windows have the curtains drawn except for two sets of three, with Clay in the centre of the open drapes. The only indication that they are two separate images joined together is the slight change in the angle of her throw and the positions of the books falling.]