Zone B Exhibition Project
Suitable for all ages
Scenes from a Film I’ll Never Make, with Alternate Scores, 2012
Film Installation
Kelly Mark has applied her interest in film and popular culture to use music for the first time in this, her fantasy directorial debut. Repetitive, mundane tasks of everyday life are the sorts of things that have provided revealing pathos and humour in Mark’s past work.
Lifting iconic scenes from popular films and television programs and re-staging them without dialogue, then replaying them with alternating scores, reflects her understanding of the atmospheric effects of a score and underlines her interest in how the soundtrack radically alters the way the piece is perceived.
The selected music is either songs that the artist has always felt would be great film scores or, alternately, tunes that she remembers from films because they have made such a strong impression on her.
Based in Toronto, Kelly Mark was born in Welland, Ontario (1967). She completed a BFA (1994) at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design and has exhibited across Canada and internationally, including The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal; MSVU Art Gallery (Halifax), The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Ikon Gallery, UK; Dundee Contemporary Arts (Scotland). She represented Canada at Sydney Biennale (1998) and Liverpool Biennale (2006).
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Toronto Eaton Centre
220 Yonge Street (Laneway running south from Dundas Street West to Trinity Square)
This project is outdoors.