The upcoming Artlab exhibit, ‘Song Show,’ explores an exhibition of eight video artworks, each of which subjects a particular song to a wild but discerning transformation.
Running Friday, Oct. 30 to Saturday, Nov. 21 at the Artlab in Western’s John Labatt Visual Arts Centre, ‘Song Show’ the exhibition explores the use artists have made of the popular song to reflect on its format, its contents, its mythologies and the emotions it engages.
With at least a portion of the original still intact, each artwork moves the associations and effect of the song onto new terrain. Led Zepplin is played against West Coast landscape and at the foot of the stairs of St. Paul’s Cathedral; Britney Spears lands in the antebellum cotton fields and Prince grooves his way into a Glasgow bedsit.
An opening reception is scheduled for Nov. 6 from 5 to 8 p.m. in the Artlab. For more information visit www.songshow.org.