01.11 Deirdre Logue:
Very Selected Works
2005–2022

By Ash Barbu
2025
Toronto Queer Film Festival


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Here is an installation of three video works by artist Deirdre Logue, spanning 17 years. They feature no dialogue, save for the quiet of non-human vibrations or the occasional whisper of worry.

These are scenes of animacy, incident, and control — calling into question a dependence on oneself and other beings. At stake in each situation is, at best, a sense of uncertainty.

Also present in these works is an intimacy with something unlike how we usually understand knowing or identity.
02.11Beyond Her Usual Limits:
The Film and Video Works of Deirdre Logue 1997–2017

Edited by Matthew Hyland
2017
ISBN 978-1-894707-39-8

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Essays by Matthew Hyland, Adriana Disman, Jon Davies,  Emily Vey Duke, Steve Reinke, Mike Hoolboom, Amy Fung, Jeanne Randolph, Leila Timmins, Doug Jarvis, Vicky Moufawad-Paul.


03.11Id’s Its
Exhibition Catalogue

Guest Curator Doug Jarvis
2012
Open Space Arts Society, BC

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Over the past three months, Deirdre Logue indulged the articulate and impassioned process that is her practice. She inhabited her summer residency as one does when the freedom of experimentation mingles with cleverness and dreams. She took the energy of the contemporary world and teased out its challenges, passions, fears, and woes. The result is an array of installations that invite us into this exchange — to navigate the interior and exterior worlds of our own being.

Id’s Its builds on Logue’s ongoing engagement with her audience and with the medium of video itself.

04.11Ours Evils Amputated

Deirdre Logue
2011

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Quietly decorative, brutal, and astute, Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure wobbles the offal in my autonomic system. My sympathetic and parasympathetic ganglia draw short straws to babysit in Emily and Cooper’s jittery world, full to the brim with ignoramuses, unable to see the literal forest for the subliminal trees.
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

06.11 On films and videos by Deirdre Logue, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan

By Jenny Bisch
2009
Winnipeg Film Group


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There are worlds of moving images out there that flout the conventions of television and Hollywood. Made with tiny (sometimes solo) creative teams, they connect with audiences at the individual level — as opposed to ‘the masses’ — giving us an intimate look into the minds of the artists behind them.

Rather than deploy the tired tropes of cinematic illusion to represent narratives, these hand-crafted images express colour and shape, light and darkness with dense, imperfect, and human qualities.

They seek a connection to the world off the screen. An experimental film or work of video art often uses nonsensical and absurd imagery to make that connection.
07.11 Queering Plunder
Catalogue

Dunlop Art Gallery
2007
N6545.6.L54 2008 

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This publication originates from an exhibition presented November 17, 2006–January 14, 2007 by the Dunlop Art Gallery, a department of the Regina Public Library.

08.11 I Hate You
Letters

Various
2006


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Letters from grade 11/12 students.

09.11 Site Specific Symptoms

Deirdre Logue
2001

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Originally published in Landscape with Shipwreck: The Films of Philip Hoffman, Insomniac Press/Images Festival, Toronto, 2001

10.07LUX: A Decade of Artists’ Film and Video

Edited by Steve Reinke and Tom Taylor
2000
N6545.5V53L89

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Essays by Steve Reinke, Tom Taylor, Laura U. Marks, Emily Vey Duke, Cooper Battersby, Jubal Brown, Gary Kibbins, Monique Moumblow, David Clark, Andrew James Paterson, Colin Campbell, Catherine Russell, George Kuchar, Nelson Henricks, Anne McGuire, Janine Marchessault, Mike Hoolboom, Barbara Sternberg, John McCullough, Scott Treleaven, Cameron Bailey, Abigail Child, Elisabeth Subrin, John Porter, Jonathan Pollard, Rick Prelinger, Scott McLeod, Robert Lee, Wrik Mead, (Interview with) Mike Hoolboom (again), Kika Thorne, Lisa Steele, Kim Tomczak, (and another) Mike Hoolboom, Sally Berger, Barbara Goslawski, Lia Gangitano, Peggy Ahwesh, Yudi Sewraj, Kristin Lucas, Jan Peacock, Paula Levine.