Monique Besten (Netherlands,)
Eszter Burghardt (Vancouver,)
Tomoyo Ihaya (Vancouver,)
Krisdy Shindler (Scotland/Vancouver,)
Steve Calvert (Vancouver.)

See the gallery page for links to artists’ sites & info.
The show runs until July.24.
Strathcona Press are Jen Van de Pol and Adrian Robertshaw.

http://www.strathconapress.com/gallery.html

It’s hard to discern sometimes with popular culture what the full intent is. Generally the territory is full of light commentary, obfuscating lyrics and irony. Yet it offers more than endless entertainment, music for one intrinsically becomes part of our fabric, for as T.S. Eliot said: “You are the music while it lasts.”

…to add i would say that there is a huge field of music, both sacred and profane that creates this bridge between definite creativity and the undefinable world of “spirit’.

enjoi.

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“I started reading spiritual texts as a student, and one of the first ones that caught my eye was Rumi’s Mathnawi, an amazing five-volume discourse on human existence and the divine written in the 13th century. When I started to read that material and apply it to what I knew about art and art making, and what I knew about contemporary existence, I began to see things in a much more connected way. The death of my mother in 1991 was the moment when the barrier between life and art disappeared. In a way it wasn’t even a barrier because I didn’t even know it existed. The borderline between life and death is not a brick wall that you battle your way through, it is fragile and porous, like a soap bubble. This is a profound thing, and it gives us this urgent need in life to touch the infinite.” _Bill Viola

img: Purification, 2005

For full interview at WhiteHot magazine:

http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/in-conversation-with-bill-viola/1979