Anne Ramsden : Residence

Paskasaar examines Ramsden's site-specific installation in Gairloch Gallery, formerly a private dwelling, illustrating the artist's utilization of decorative elements to evoke the history of the residence, and in turn implicit bourgeois ideals surrounding issues of gender, class and race. Biographical notes

Memory Track

In this broadsheet, Pakasaar considers the artistic recuperation of historical images and documents as a means of imposing a personal voice in official historical discourse. Biographical notes. 1 bibl. ref

In Transition : Postwar Photography in Vancouver

Identifying pictorialism as the popular aesthetic movement in photography in postwar Vancouver, guest curator Pakasaar goes on to trace the development of Canadian photography from the 1940's to the 1960's. The author discusses the salons of various Vancouver camera clubs, as well as the activities of the National Film Board and the impact of picture magazines and fashion advertising on photographic aesthetic. The resulting exhibition assembles work by amateur and commercial photographers, with imagery that ranges from abstraction to photojournalism. Chronology, 1940-1964

Object Lessons

In her readings of the work of Tom Marioni, Gilles Mihalcean and Richard Wentworth, Pakasaar brings current notions of the object, the bricoleur, the tableau, public and private memory and cultural artifact. Paradoxically, the juxtaposition of work from Canada, the United States and England serves to exemplify an international sensibility. Biographical notes. 35 bibl. ref

Natural Selection

The curator conceived the exhibition as an illustration of the process of metamorphosis developed through the works of 13 artists and as a comment on the irrationality of the natural order of things

Iain Baxter : Food for Thought

Broadsheet documenting exhibition of various three-dimensional works concerned with the critique of contemporary lifestyle through the use of everyday materials including junk food. Pakasaar's statement outlines the artist's techniques of appropriation and parody, and his optimistic humour in the face of his sense of mortality. Biographical notes

Alan Dunning : Billy Budd's Stammer : The Structure of the New Defence

Pakasaar relates Dunning's installation to a crisis of meaning in contemporary society. Biographical notes. 7 bibl. ref