The works presented in this exhibition pursue this research by studying, with teenagers, the conflicts and sometimes the disconnections, between personal choices and social life.
… bump in the night is composed of large scale photographs showing adolescents photographed from the back, to whom the artists asked a series of questions, focusing more on the adolescents’ fears than on their ambitions – describe a recent nightmare, a striking event that happened at school, reveal what scares them the most. Their responses, inscribed on the image itself, are disturbing and reveal a deep malaise as well as an exceptional solitude.
(From Dazibao Gallery, Montreal)
… bump in the night is composed of large scale photographs showing adolescents photographed from the back, to whom the artists asked a series of questions, focusing more on the adolescents’ fears than on their ambitions – describe a recent nightmare, a striking event that happened at school, reveal what scares them the most. Their responses, inscribed on the image itself, are disturbing and reveal a deep malaise as well as an exceptional solitude.
(From Dazibao Gallery, Montreal)
...bump in the night, Barrie
Steele and Tomczak
Barrie, Canada, 2010
...bump in the night, Barrie comprises a series of ten large format photographs by renowned Canadian media artists Lisa Steele & Kim Tomczak, created for this occasion and displayed in ten Barrie bus transit shelters. Each image portrays an anonymous student on the verge of graduating entering a Barrie-area high school, overlaid with text culled from responses to a series of questions. Revealing the students' dreams, goals, fears and memories, they reflect the personal and collective narratives of this generation.
Steele and Tomczak
Barrie, Canada, 2010
...bump in the night, Barrie comprises a series of ten large format photographs by renowned Canadian media artists Lisa Steele & Kim Tomczak, created for this occasion and displayed in ten Barrie bus transit shelters. Each image portrays an anonymous student on the verge of graduating entering a Barrie-area high school, overlaid with text culled from responses to a series of questions. Revealing the students' dreams, goals, fears and memories, they reflect the personal and collective narratives of this generation.
...bump in the night, Caen
Steele and Tomczak
Caen, France, 2009
Bump in the night… (Caen) 2009. This series of photo/text works was produced in Caen to be exhibited during Steele and Tomczak’s major survey exhibition at wharf, Centre d’art contemporain de Basse-Nomandie in 2010. Again, young students were interviewed at the end of their school year in June as many of them were preparing to leave their middle school experience. Here the artists have taken to heart the words of Martha Rosler, who asked in the introduction to her 1975 photo and text work The Bowery... "what can you learn from them that you didn't already know?"
Steele and Tomczak
Caen, France, 2009
Bump in the night… (Caen) 2009. This series of photo/text works was produced in Caen to be exhibited during Steele and Tomczak’s major survey exhibition at wharf, Centre d’art contemporain de Basse-Nomandie in 2010. Again, young students were interviewed at the end of their school year in June as many of them were preparing to leave their middle school experience. Here the artists have taken to heart the words of Martha Rosler, who asked in the introduction to her 1975 photo and text work The Bowery... "what can you learn from them that you didn't already know?"
Gruseln in der Nacht [Bump in the night…(v2)]
Steele and Tomczak
Stuttgart Germany, 2008
Gruseln in der Nacht [...bump in the night (v2)] continues a project we began in Toronto. It involves young people at a time of anticipated change – typically from 15 to 18 years of age. In June 2008, near Stuttgart, we interviewed eleven young people on the last day of their years in middle school. From here, some would go on to technical apprenticeships or training; others would go to the gymnasium and then to the university. It is at this point in the life of a young person that society often asks: ‘How will you make the world a better place?’ or ‘What will you do to improve the world?’. Our project is more interested in what is inside of these young people: “what are your dreams, your nightmares, and, most importantly, what are you afraid of?”
Steele and Tomczak
Stuttgart Germany, 2008
Gruseln in der Nacht [...bump in the night (v2)] continues a project we began in Toronto. It involves young people at a time of anticipated change – typically from 15 to 18 years of age. In June 2008, near Stuttgart, we interviewed eleven young people on the last day of their years in middle school. From here, some would go on to technical apprenticeships or training; others would go to the gymnasium and then to the university. It is at this point in the life of a young person that society often asks: ‘How will you make the world a better place?’ or ‘What will you do to improve the world?’. Our project is more interested in what is inside of these young people: “what are your dreams, your nightmares, and, most importantly, what are you afraid of?”
...bump in the night, Toronto
Steele and Tomczak
Toronto, Canada, 2003
Steele and Tomczak
Toronto, Canada, 2003
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