Holly Ward: IDYLL exhibition (Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery)

On the 40th anniversary of May 1968, the Belkin Art Gallery presents three exhibitions that address aspects of that revolutionary decade.

Holly Ward's, sessional faculty, 2005 work called Radical Rupture, is an installation that incorporates a recording of a 1967 speech given by Herbert Marcuse in London, "On Liberation from the Affluent Society" as the sound track for a projection of an erratic starry night.

Audrey Capel Doray was a pioneer in multi-media, interactive and digitally based art when she produced Wheel of Fortune in 1968 and Electronic Seascape in 1969. This exhibition will also include a selection of Doray's paintings as well as a multi-media work entitled Pic-A-Mix by her late husband Victor Doray.

Wildflowers of Manitoba is a multimedia performance installation by Noam Gonick and Luis Jacob. The work was featured at the 2007 Montreal Biennale. It consists of four short films and sound presented in a furnished geodesic dome. The films show four young men living off the grid in a survivalist camp on the shores of Lake Winnipeg during the summer of 2006. The loosely scripted scenes establish a naturalist idyll seemingly removed from contemporary life.

Idyll will also include works from the collection by, Gary Lee-Nova, retired associate professor, Gordon Payne, Judy Williams, Joan Balzar, Claude Breeze (59), Brian Fisher, Richard Turner, Michael Morris, Julia Cseko and Jack Wise.

Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, UBC

May 16 to August 10, 2008