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Hadley
+ Maxwell
We Are Othyrworld
Western Front Exhibitions
March 18 - April 23, 2005
Opening Thursday March 17, 8PM
Sacred Blade is a metal band whose style has been described
as "Astral Alloy" by Vancouver rock critic Tom Harrison.
Formed in 1979, their debut album, of the sun + moon,
was released 7 years later on Black Dragon Records (France).
Ken Lum photographed the band for his work We Are Sacred
Blade in 1990, and concurrently joined the Department of
Fine Arts at UBC. Sacred Blade re-mastered their debut album
in 1999 as a numbered limited edition that entered the "Top
300 Hard ÔnÕ Heavy Albums of All Time" in Germany's
Rock Hard Magazine. Tim Lee graduated from the UBC Masters
in Fine Arts Program in 2000 under the direct supervision of
Ken Lum.
Sacred
Blade's Jeff Ulmer and Ted Zawadzki continue to work together
under the new moniker Othyrworld. Ken Lum's We Are Sacred
Blade is on display at the Power Plant in Toronto, until
March 6, 2005. Othyrworld's debut album, Beyond into the
Night of Day will be released on March 13, 2005. We
Are Othyrworld opens at the Western Front March 17, 2005.
This work is the latest segment of Hadley and Maxwell's Décor
Project, in which the artists redecorate the homes of
curators, collectors and other cultural practitioners, and
document the installations photographically with the assistance
of Sven Boecker. This work was created for a forthcoming publication
on the Décor Project published by the Homework
Curatorial Collective with Projectile Publications, Ace Art,
Artspace, and the Western Front. The publication will be designed
by Vancouver artist Tim Lee, who therefore is the subject
of this project.
Hadley Howes and Maxwell Stephens began collaborating in 1997.
They graduated together from Emily Carr Institute of Art and
Design in Vancouver, Canada the following year, and in 2004
co-wrote a thesis on collaboration to receive their Masters
of Art in Communications from the European Graduate School,
Switzerland. They have designed sets for film, opera and dance
productions, published both text and image, and exhibited
across Canada, in the United States and in Australia. Recent
exhibitions include i love you i love you i love you i
love you at 69 Pender in Vancouver, and The Décor
Project at Howard House in Seattle.
Western Front Exhibitions Programme
exhibitions@front.bc.ca
Western Front 303 E.8th Avenue
Vancouver, BC Canada V5T 1S1
tel. +1 604 876 9343
fax. +1 604 876 4099
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