Daniel Barrow
2008, Canada, overhead transparencies, color, live & recorded sound, 60 min.
After his piece Looking for Love in the Hall of Mirrors showed at MIX’s Opening Night in 2007, Daniel Barrow is back. Awarded the 2008 Images Prize at its premiere, Daniel Barrow’s newest “manual animation” combines overhead projection with video, music, and live narration to tell the story of a garbage man with a vision to create an independent phone book chronicling the lives of each person in his city. In the late hours of the night, he sifts through garbage, collecting personal information and then traces pictures of each citizen through the windows of their homes as they sleep. What he doesn’t yet realize is that a deranged killer is trailing him, murdering each citizen he includes in his book, thus rendering his cataloging efforts obsolete. The garbage man is a failed artist who fears becoming subject to the grip of something overwhelming. This animation traces his attempts to slow down and creatively reflect, in a process of coming to terms with his own self-loathing and fear. Original Soundtrack by Amy Linton.
November 20, 2009
8.30 PM
Daniel Barrow
Daniel Barrow is a Winnipeg-based media artist, working in performance, video and installation. He has exhibited widely in Canada and abroad. Recently, Barrow has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), New Langton Arts (San Francisco), and the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver). Since 1993, Barrow has used an overhead projector to relay ideas and short narratives. Specifically, he creates and adapts comic book narratives to a “manual” form of animation by projecting, layering and manipulating drawings on mylar transparencies. Barrow variously refers to this practice as “graphic performance, live illustration, or manual animation,” using obsolete technologies to present written, pictorial and cinematic narratives centering on the practices of drawing and collecting. Barrow has exhibited widely in Canada and abroad. He has performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), and the Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago). Barrow is the 2007 winner of the Canada Council’s Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton award and the 2008 winner of the Images Festival’s Images Prize. Barrow is represented by Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto.
