Deidre Logue Lecture

Art and Art History Presents

Deirdre Logue

Thursday, October 30, 2008
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.


Sheridan, Lecture Hall B124

Deirdre Logue’s film, video and installation work focuses on self-presentation, the body as material, confessional autobiography and the passage of ‘real’ time. Logue’s projects include Enlightened Nonsense (a series of ten short performance films about repetition), a twelve-channel self-portrait Why Always Instead of Just Sometimes, and a continuous counting project Rough Count. Logue’s work addresses how it is that women organize their images and identities for mass consumption, and how this reflects or distracts from our knowledge of the individual.

Solo exhibitions of Logue’s work have taken place at Oakville Galleries, YYZ Artist Outlet, Neutral Ground, the Images Festival – where she won both Best Installation and Best of the Festival – the Berlin International Film Festival, Beyond/In Western New York, Ottawa’s Video Art Biennial, Art Star and Articule in Montreal. Recent group exhibitions include Traumatic Landscapes at the Centre for Art Tapes, Achtung Baby presented at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics in Buenos Aires, Haptic Contemporary Art Forum, Conversation Pieces at Kingston’s Agnes Etherington Art Centre and Ceremonial Actions at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre.

Over the past eighteen years, Logue has organized independent film, video and new media festivals and participated in forums and symposiums on the future of independent artistic practice and film and video distribution. She was a founding member of Media City in Windsor, the Executive Director of the Images Festival from 1995-1999, the Executive Director of the Canadian Filmmakers’ Distribution Centre from 2001-2006, is currently the Development Director at V Tape. She lives and works in Toronto, Ontario.