![]() ![]() ![]() The highly creative Bisch, 32, is an anthropologist and filmmaker with strong connections to the arts community. “The whole show is about illusion,” says Jennifer Bisch, who took over as Dalnavert’s curator four months ago and conceived the exhibition. The latter, a remarkably convincing, looped 2.5-minute recreation of period photography and primitive animation by Danishka Esterhazy and Wendy Sawatzky, is tucked - eek! - in a dressing room adjoining the bathroom. Not to give too much away, but you can expect a haunted rocking chair, a lightbox piece that reworks early French motion-picture experiments, and a phantasmagoria show about a ghostly woman in white, projected on a bedsheet with a chilling soundtrack. Most of the artists - all in their 20s and 30s - have created eerie installations, echoing a time when photography and cinema were emerging artforms that often astounded and frightened viewers. Phantasmagoria presentations of that time, which evolved from magic lantern shows, often had macabre themes. ![]() The theme is Victorian-era image projection. The show and is on view during regular Dalnavert hours through Nov. stuff: Curator Jennifer Bisch is haunted by Andrew Milne, from left, Danishka Esterhazy and Wendy Sawatzky. ![]() Many Winnipeggers think of Dalnavert as a sedate, starchy museum furnished with quaint Victorian relics and frequented by tea-drinking seniors.īut starting tonight for the Halloween season, a lightning bolt of hip energy is set to zap the stately red-brick home at 61 Carlton St., just south of Broadway.Ī spooky seven-piece art show called Phantasmagoria has been installed in seven rooms - from the kitchen to the conservatory - throughout the restored 1895 mansion, once home to wealthy magistrate Sir Hugh John Macdonald and his family. This article was published (4793 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. Free Press 101: How we practise journalism. ![]()
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