Judy Radul is based in Berlin and Vancouver, where she is professor at Simon Fraser University. Recent solo exhibitions include World Rehearsal Court, V-A-C Foundation at the GULAG History State Museum, Moscow (2017); the king, the door, the thief, the window, the stranger, the camera, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2017), Judy Radul: Closeup, The Breakdown, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston (2015); This is Television, Daadgalerie, Berlin (2013). Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions and biennales including the Contour Biennale 8, Mechelen (2017); Nicaragua Biennale X (2016); the 8th Berlin Biennale (2014); People Things Enter Exit, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver (2011); Seoul Biennale of Media Art (2010); and Behind the Fourth Wall: Fictitious Lives – Lived Fiction, Generali Foundation, Vienna (2010). She has a BA in Fine and Performing Arts from Simon Fraser University and a MFA in Visual and Media Arts from Bard College, New York. She is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery.
Vancouver-based artist and writer Judy Radul is known for her experiments with various forms of performance including live actions, video, installation, photography and audio works, and has exhibited across Canada, the United States and the Netherlands. In her upcoming exhibition at the Belkin Satellite, Radul presents never before seen video works for projection and monitor display alongside a new version of a video-performance produced for the ICALondon in 1999.
Beginning on the evening of November 15th, passers-by on Hamilton Street in downtown Vancouver will be confronted with the comings and goings at the doors of two of Italy’s most famous fashion houses. Gucci Prada (2002), a projection for the glass entrance of the Belkin Satellite, continues Radul’s exploration of public space as a stage where entrances and exits incite performance and serve to frame micro-dramas. The second projection, Four Seasons (2002), casts the image of a hotel lobby inside the gallery space, allowing viewers to deduce the small performances which emerge out of the leisurely traffic of a tourist locale. The projected videos coexist with two works for monitors exploring our physical and psychic relations to objects. For Concrete Examples (prototype version) (2002), Radul revisits an earlier project wherein she recorded herself reading the entire text of Chapter III in Part II of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception. Having broken down the text according to the series of everyday objects, which Merleau-Ponty used to illustrate his arguments, Radul superimposes the names of these ‘concrete examples’ onto a television broadcast for the length of time that it takes to read them out loud. The final work in the exhibition, In Relation to Objects (1999), consists of a four-monitor display showing people responding to everyday materials. In 1999 Radul invited four performers to work with (respectively): a green glass bottle, a coin, a bar of soap and a small hand towel. The performers’ abstract and unpredictable interplay with these objects test the basic conditions of interaction between people and things, thereby opening up new possibilities for perceiving the physical world.
Judy Radul is based in Berlin and Vancouver, where she is professor at Simon Fraser University. Recent solo exhibitions include World Rehearsal Court, V-A-C Foundation at the GULAG History State Museum, Moscow (2017); the king, the door, the thief, the window, the stranger, the camera, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2017), Judy Radul: Closeup, The Breakdown, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston (2015); This is Television, Daadgalerie, Berlin (2013). Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions and biennales including the Contour Biennale 8, Mechelen (2017); Nicaragua Biennale X (2016); the 8th Berlin Biennale (2014); People Things Enter Exit, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver (2011); Seoul Biennale of Media Art (2010); and Behind the Fourth Wall: Fictitious Lives – Lived Fiction, Generali Foundation, Vienna (2010). She has a BA in Fine and Performing Arts from Simon Fraser University and a MFA in Visual and Media Arts from Bard College, New York. She is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery.
World Rehearsal Court, a solo exhibition of new work by Vancouver artist Judy Radul, is a large-scale media installation. This work draws on Radul’s research into the role of theatricality and new technologies in the court of law and it questions the distinctions between experience, testimony, truth and fiction that the law attempts to make distinct. World Rehearsal Court addresses the complexities of real-life experience that the court compresses into written record.
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