Deirdre Logue

Why Always Instead of Just Sometimes

In conjunction with the 2006 Images Festival
April 15 - May 13, 2006

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Paul Petro Contemporary Art is pleased to announce that Deirdre Logue has won two awards at this year's Images Festival for her current video installation "Why Always Instead of Just Sometimes" in the categories of Best Installation/ New Media Award and the Images Prize.

Deirdre Logue remarks, "Images is one of the most important and provocative media arts festivals in the world. Recognition within this forum is especially meaningful to me as an artist. I am deeply honoured."  Congratulations Deirdre!

Three years of collected seeing, wanting, hurting, promises kept and broken and Deirdre Logue is back with a new video called Why Always Instead of Just Sometimes. This episodic, twelve part saga updates video pioneers Vito and Chris and Marina, reshaping the body as material for a new ethics of seeing. Home movie loops jog the memory between solo camera performances. Bedroom idylls, ear painting, jaw cracking, bandage wielding, bag blowing, self suckling, that beauty dancing: it's all here.

And to kick it all off there's a new book attached! It includes specially commissioned essays by Steve Reinke, Brenda Goldstein, Daniel Cockburn, Marc Glassman, Aleesa Cohene, Sarolta Jane Cump, Barbara Sternberg and Emily Vey Duke. It's paperless and free of charge, a virtual weightless book: "Deirdre Logue: beyond her usual limits"— Mike Hoolboom, 2006

"Deirdre Logue may not be inevitable, but her video is. Like most motion pictures that we give ourselves these days, it's symptomatic... It hopes against hope (which is to say: against itself) for either a profound mutation or a lancing. At its bedraggled best, it pries itself apart, crawls deep inside, into the crack, and looks for change." ("Setup/Punchline/Repeat" by Daniel Cockburn)

"I remember her telling me that when we were done editing Why Always Instead of Just Sometimes she was going to erase all of her secrets from my mind. And maybe that's what happened..." ("Notes from an Editor" by Aleesa Cohene)

"It is difficult to think of introspection without retrospection, introspection without temporal depth. Self portraiture is a flash of introspection, shallow, immediate, without depth. Surface introspection. A queer thing." ("Not Persephone, Per Se" by Steve Reinke)

Deirdre Logue has spent the past fifteen years working on behalf of media artists by organizing independent film, video and new media festivals, by founding collectives and by participating in forums and symposiums. A filmmaker since 1990, Deirdre is perhaps best known for her series of short, handmade, performance films collectively titled Enlightened Nonsense (2000). Her work has been exhibited nationally at YYZ Artist Outlet in Toronto, Neutral Ground in Regina, SAW Gallery in Ottawa, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery in Halifax as well as internationally at Centre d'art Contemporain in France, the San Francisco Cinematheque, Video Ex in Switzerland, the Honolulu Academy of Art in Hawaii, Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania and as part of a recent Canadian video exchange in Cairo, Egypt. Her works are distributed by Vtape in Toronto.

Why Always Instead of Just Sometimes was made with the essential support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto and the Centre for Art Tapes.

View the online monograph Deirdre Logue: Beyond Her Usual Limits.