An exhibition of eight video artworks,
each of which subjects a particular song to a wild but discerning transformation.Twisted Covers Symposium
Friday, November 6, 2009, 1-5pm
John Labatt Visual Art Centre, Room 247
University of Western Ontario
Records capture, refine and replicate one fleeting moment of a song's existence. Yet each popular song has a life beyond its official one. All other versions—listened and danced to, hummed and chanted, swapped, shared and imitated— orbit around it creating a lived, participatory truth perhaps as important as the ideal original. This symposium of round table conversations with theorists, historians, critics and artists continue the dialogue initiated by the SONG SHOW exhibition—exploring the relation of original and cover, the status and function of a cover song, and the use visual artists make of popular music.
Symposium participants:
- Christina Baade , McMaster University
- Michael Paul Britto, New York City
- Jonathan Burston, University of Western Ontario
- Norma Coates, University of Western Ontario
- Keir Keightley, University of Western Ontario
- Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Montreal/Berlin
- Alan Stanbridge, University of Toronto
This symposium is made possible with the generous support of the Visual Arts Department, the Faculty of Arts, and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, W. E. (Ted) Hewitt, Vice-President (Research & International Relations) at the University of Western Ontario and the Canada Council for the Arts.