05.11Scrapes: Unruly Embodiments in Video Art
Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki
2010
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The McMaster Museum of Art (MMA) is both a public and a university-affiliated art museum. This, in association with our goal to actively contribute to the academic mission of the University AND to be unique amongst cultural institutions in the region, guides the Museum’s programming decisions. On the one hand, the Museum develops research, exhibition and interpretation projects that respond to the discourse on art in Canada. In this regard, the institution considers historical, modern and contemporary production. Projects such as that on the work of Robert Houle, Richard Fung, Leonard Baskin and Allyson Mitchell, amongst many others, reveal the breadth of that work. On the other hand, the MMA works in collaboration with faculty at McMaster University to develop collaborative projects that bring into the realm of the art museum, faculty work that intersects with visual culture. Over the past several years, the MMA has produced the very successful Synesthesia: Art & the Mind in association with the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour; Light Echo with the Department of Physics and Astronomy; Fierce: Women’s Hot-Blooded Film/Video with Theatre & Film Studies; and the Visual Literacy Program for Medical Residents with the Department of Family Medicine, to name only a few ...
Carol Podedworny
Director and Chief Curator
McMaster Museum of Art