Isos na min exei na kanei me mousiki alla o typos kanei ta videos twn MELVINS kai synergazetai me KEIJI HAINO k.a.

Mexri 18 Noemvriou stin gallery Bernier - Eliades, Eptaxalkou 11, Thisio

CAMERON JAMIE
STUDIES FOR THREE FILMS:
BB/SPOOK HOUSE/KRANKY KLAUS
October 6 – November 18, 2005

Cameron Jamie was born in 1969 in Los Angeles. He lives and works in Paris. Recent
exhibitions include: Goldoni Theatre - Venice, Salzburger Kunstverein - Salzburg, The
Wrong Gallery – New York, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts - San Francisco, Centre
National de L’Estampe et de L’Art Imprimé - Chatou, O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst
- Linz.
Cameron Jamie will be designing a specific installation for the Bernier-Eliades Gallery,
and will be showing studies for three of his films: BB, which records suburban LA
teenagers creating their own backyard wrestling events; SPOOK HOUSE, about
Halloween in the Detroit area, which offers an analysis of pathological expressions of
violence, death and horror at the margins of American culture; and KRANKY KLAUS, a
film that is about the Krampus (hairy beasts with horns that give naughty children what
they deserve) part of the celebrations for St. Nicholas’s day in Salzburg’s Gastein Valley.
Cameron Jamie’s work - a blend of video, sound, performance, photography, and
drawing- deals with European and American history and culture, and investigates their
violent suburban rituals. Jamie’s sharp critical gaze often focuses on dysfunctional
manifestations and practices in popular culture and their impact on everyday life and the
psyche. His intricate work has its background in the artist’s own folklore and
mythologies. Using the suburban culture as a case study, he analyzes how structures of
mythology are shaped and shared and the extent to which they participate in the
creation of individuals’ fictional worlds and fictional selves.
The gallery remains open Tue- Fri, 10:30 – 20:00 and on Saturday, 12:00 – 16:00.