Alumni Artist Talk at Grunt Gallery
Weronika Stepien and Stephen Wichuk present a talk in support of their exhibition, Sausage Factory.
Alumni Weronika Stepien and Stephen Wichuk present an artist talk at the Grunt Gallery as part of their current exhibition Sausage Factory, (on display through April 2).
Stepien and Wichuk examine the operations of food production and how this activity has been represented in literature, industrial films, and popular cinema. A selection of related movement images are disassembled and their various motivations and structural components reconstituted to produce a series of new video works.
In one instance, a set of inexpensive consumer goods haunted by physical, mimetic and mythic affinities to sausage making are summoned, to reenact a centuries old sight-gag. In another, movements captured in a tradition of scientific management are pushed through the tedious yet fantastical mill of cel animation.
The resultant images collapse historical time with the time of production, and in so doing reveal uncanny movements of capital and desire.