GREG STAATS: liminal disturbance
November 17, 2011 – January 28, 2012
Public Reception: Thursday November 17, 6—8 pm
Artist's Talk: Thursday November 24, 6 pm

Greg Staats is a photographer and video artist whose work combines language, mnemonics and the natural world. He draws upon a traditional Mohawk restorative aesthetic that defines the multiplicity of relationships inherent within the reciprocity of the condolence ceremony and the effects of trauma. The exhibition brings together several works by Staats that reference language loss, acquisition and resurgence through photographic series, video works, and personal archival materials.
Image above: Greg Staats, Dark String Repeat (video still) 2010, video installation. Courtesy of the artist

RAMONA RAMLOCHAND: Unfallen
November 17, 2011 – January 28, 2012
Public Reception: Thursday November 17, 6—8 pm 

Unfallen is a new project-installation by Montreal-based artist Ramona Ramlochand, being shown for the first time. It opens up a broad discussion of "place" for her and is, in part, fuelled by the rapidly changing environment and technologically enhanced world that we live in.
Image: Ramona Ramlochand, detail of the kinetic element for Unfallen, Élan Vital, 2010-2011; fishbowl, found objects, water and motor.

McMaster Museum of Art
Alvin A. Lee Building
McMaster University
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, ON L8S 4L6
museum@mcmaster.ca
www.mcmaster.ca/museum

Admission is Free
Museum hours: Tue/Wed/Fri 11am-5pm, Thu 11-7, Sat 12-5.
Note: Museum is closed between Dec 23/11 and Jan 2/12