Jan Peacock
- Date : Né(e) en 1955
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- Liens : http://janpeacock.net/
Jan Peacock est née en 1955 à Barrie, en Ontario. Elle a obtenu un baccalauréat en beaux-arts de l'University of Western Ontario en 1978 et une maîtrise de l'University of California à San Diego en 1981. Depuis 1980, ses bandes et installations vidéo sont présentées dans toute l'Amérique du Nord et outre-mer et ont reçu d'importantes récompenses.
Elles ont fait partie de nombreuses importantes expositions collectives, dont New Canadian Narrative au Museum of Modern Art de New York; Festival Vidéo Art Plastique, Hérouville, France, 1996; Perspective 95 (Musée des beaux-arts de l'Ontario, 1995); Circonvolutions (Museo Carillo Gil, Mexico, 1995; World Wide Video Festival (La Haye, Pays-Bas, 1991 et 1994); 4x4: Vidéos du Japon, de la Hollande, du Brésil et du Canada (Galeria Imagine, Rome, 1991); Infermental 10 (Osnabruck, Allemagne, 1990); Mediawerks (Musée Ludwig, Cologne, Allemagne, 1990); Biennale de l'art canadien contemporain (Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, 1989); et Interior Presence: Projecting Situation (The Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, 1989); Fukui International Video Festival (Fukui, Japon, 1988).
Elle enseigne depuis 1982 la réalisation vidéo, ainsi que la théorie et l'histoire de la vidéo au Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, où elle est professeure agrégée au Département des beaux-arts et des arts médiatiques. Elle dirige régulièrement des ateliers et donne des conférences dans tout le pays.
L’œuvre de Jan Peacock tire son impulsion première d'un certain sentiment de la matérialité du langage, exprimé par la poétique et la politique de la mémoire. À cette fin, l'artiste explore toute une gamme de formes de narration, écrites et orales, qu'elle fait subtilement passer par des mutations au moyen d'une visualisation persistante de la parole et du texte. Sa méthode consiste à tisser et à superposer ses sources visuelles et auditives, qui sont en partie journal intime, en partie vidéos de famille, en partie constructions complexes de studio. Les œuvres qui en résultent sont à la fois intimes et vraisemblablement inévitables. Mais derrière les histoires insaisissables, se mêlent histoire personnelle et conscience historique, ce qui favorise le sentiment des conditions de la vie - communication et perception - à cette intersection particulière de la technologie et de la conscience humaine.
source:http://www.canadacouncil.ca
Jan Peacock was born in Barrie, Ontario in 1955. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Western Ontario in 1978 and an M.F.A. from the University of California at San Diego in 1981. Since 1980 her work, both single-channel videotapes and video installations, has been shown extensively throughout North America and internationally and has received a variety of important awards. It has been included in numerous important group exhibitions, including New Canadian Narrative at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; Festival Video Art Plastique (Hérouville, France, 1996); Perspective 95 (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1995); Circonvolutions (Museo Carillo Gil, Mexico City, 1995); World Wide Video Festival (Den Haag, Netherlands, 1991 and 1994); 4x4: Video from Japan, Holland, Brazil and Canada (Galeria Imagine, Rome, 1991); Infermental 10 (Osnabruck, Germany, 1990); Mediawerks (Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany, 1990); Biennial of Contemporary Canadian Art (National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1989); Interior Presence: Projecting Situation (The Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, 1989); and Fukui International Video Biennial (Fukui, Japan, 1988) . Recent solo shows include Reader by the Window at Presentation House Gallery in Vancouver and at YYZ Artists Outlet in Toronto; Selected Works at Galerie Oboro, Montreal; WHITEWASH (which won the Silver Plaque Award for Experimental Video at the Chicago International Film and Video Festival, and a special media critique award at the Atlanta Film/Video Festival), at YYZ; and shows at the MacDonald Steward Art Centre, Guelph; Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax; A Space Gallery, Toronto; and 49th Parallel Centre for Canadian Art in New York.
In addition to her work as an artist, Peacock has curated well-crafted and scholarly exhibitions for Canadian galleries and museums, including the critically praised Corpus Loquendi: Body for Speaking for the Dalhousie Art Gallery and national tour. She has been teaching video production and theory and history of video at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design since 1982, where she is Associate Professor in the Fine and Media Arts Department. As well, she regularly conducts workshops and lectures throughout the country.
Jan Peacock's work takes its primary impulse from a sense of the materiality of language, which she then manoeuvers through the poetics and politics of memory. To this end her work has explored a great variety of narrative forms both written and oral, subtly effecting mutations of those forms through an insistent visualization of speech and text. This is achieved through a scrupulous method of weaving and layering visual and aural sources that are part diary, part home video, part elaborate studio constructions. The resulting works are both intimate and seemingly inevitable. But underlying the elusive tales there is a commingling of personal history with historical awareness which brings about a recognition of the conditions of living - of communication and perception - at this particular intersection of technology and human consciousness.
source:Bell Canada Award
http://www.canadacouncil.ca/news/releases/1999/fy127244426807343750.htm
