Susan Stewart: Change Without Notice

Change Without Notice is an exhibition of immersive video projections by Susan Stewart, Associate Dean of Integrated Studies, in collaboration with artist and writer Seaton.

Film and video technology has been used above all to promote conventional fantasies of sexual, economic and social achievement. Through a set of overlapping video projections, we are searching to propose new modes of thought and to project alternative futures - alternative fantasies - in response to current social and environmental crisis. Given our participation, as humans, in multiple biosystems and levels of interdependence, our working assumption for Change Without Notice is that to radically shift the terms of one such set of relations - here, the ecology of gender in particular - is to also evoke change on many other levels of social and environmental interconnectedness. The layering and interaction of multiple projections makes the space of the gallery into a kind of lever for change - a place where new fantasies, difficult and joyous alike, challenge current modes of relation.

Richmond Art Gallery
November 28, 2008 to January 25, 2009
Artist talk Saturday, January 17 at 2pm