Dallas Seitz, Kurator

Dallas Seitz´s work takes many forms utilizing video, sculpture, photography and drawing. Conceptual in its approach Seitz points to the museum or exhibition space as a place of collecting, research, colonization and memory both personal and political.
For TW2 new works were realized using Norway as a starting point. Objects found in thrift-shops in Stavanger are combined with photographs from glacial drops to become artifacts relating to small museum Dioramas.
A head of an iceman is recreated from a national geographic picture similar to iceman bodies found through these glacial movements like the objects in thrift shops take on artifact status purely through their journey and age.
A video collaboration with The Miller McAfee Press "Sea Monkeys and Mermaids" hints at mythical creatures, museums of mankind and Darwinian theory.

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Dallas Seitz (1972), kanadisk født kunstner bosatt i London. Seitz´s tegniger, video og skulptur arbeid er visst i London og internasjonalt blant annet på Freud Museum London, Gason Rouge Athens og Flipside Gallery New York. Sammen med eget arbeid er han grunnlegger og driver av 1000000mph project space London.