Elizabeth Milton (Vancouver), Jennifer Remenchik (Los Angeles) and
Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay (Montreal/Edinburgh)
With music and spoken word by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Michi Saagiig
Nishnaabeg)
Curated by Derrick Chang

Opening Reception:  7:30p Thursday September 7

VIVO Media Arts Centre
2625 Kaslo St. Vancouver, BC V5M3G9
Exhibition runs September 8 – 21
Hours TUES-FRI 11am-6pm

LOVE AND ROCKETS* is an exploration of longing and everyday
feelings that provide an outlet for tensions and power dynamics that
exist within interpersonal relationships. As a trope, the overwrought
emotion of love is normally associated with cinematic melodrama that
often results in an excessive display of feelings from both the actors
and the viewers. Within the dynamics of music, film and video, an
intimate relationship emerges that crosses between the individual and
the screen. L&R represents a crucial understanding of how these
ideals are transmitted from the screen to reality and back again and
conversely reified through slippages in fiction and autobiographical
Narrative.

The artists in the L&R screening series confront the way in which we
control the inner monologue that tells us, Dont get so emotional, and
minimizes what are important issues such as respect, freedom, dignity
and power that accompany tensions within relationships, broken
affairs and emotional recovery. As some of the artists in the screening
state, their work often reflects on states of tragi-comic emergence,
emotional growth and medicines for acceptance, connection, intimacy
and love.

DERRICK CHANG is a curator and writer, whose research critically examines the nature
of ethics and politics in artistic practice. His current research and writing extends this
examination to consider the personal and its formal associations in the context of
diverse archeologies of love as mixed subcultures of feeling and emotion.