EYEWORKS FESTIVAL OF ANIMATION, CHICAGO, NYC, AND RICHMOND VIRGINIA

I have included my short animation, "Advanced Search Terms" to Eyeworks 2014 touring festival taking place November 2014. See the dates and times here.

esse MAGAZINE AUCTION

I've contributed a collaged drawing to the esse Magazine auction and fundraiser. Link here.

ARTFORUM, SEPTEMBER 2014

Pleased to be included and considered among so many great artists in an intelligent essay in the September issue of Artforum. "Live and Direct - Erika Balsom on Cinema as a Performing Art". page 328-333.

DANIEL IN OBERHAUSEN

MAY 3, 2014 I will be performing at Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (Oberhausen Short Film Festival) this weekend. Two shows. Double bill with Valie Export. Details here.

DANIEL AT THE MUSÉE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN DE MONTREAL - FEB 12 - MARCH 5, 2014

I will be presenting my new piece, "The Thief of Mirrors", for four nights (every Wednesday from February 12 through March 5) alongside "Looking for Love in the Hall of Mirrors". The first two shows will be in English. The last 2 shows will be en fracais. Details here.

16 QUESTIONS FROM BLOUINARTINFO

Read it here.

PICA'S TBA FESTIVAL 3013

I will be performing this Friday and Saturday at PICA's TBA festival. Very excited to be a part of this lineup. Details here.

PERFORMANCE PREMIERE - AUGUST 22 - GLENFIDDICH DISTILLERY

I will be presenting my newest piece "I CAN'T STOP LOOKING AT YOU" at the Glennfiddich Distillery, where I have been in residence for 3 months, on August 22.

VIDEO DOCUMENTATION

I pieced together a few scenes of documentation from my show at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (closed last April). Here I am demonstrating how the viewer decides which famous cinematic mirror is projected into the shattered mirror and which body is projected into the pool of blood. My laundry is projected into the baroque drapery. You can see that here.
You can also see documentation of the same piece at the MASS MOCA.
A scene from Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry is here.
Documentation of Learning to Breath Under water is here.
My new performance, The Thief of Mirrors, (from which the installation was abstracted) will be presented at PICA's TBA festival in September. Details here.

DANIEL IN OSLO

I will be performing this Thursday (May 23) in Oslo. Please tell all your Norwegian friends! Details here.

VIDEO LINKS (new site coming soon)

EVERY TIME I SEE YOUR PICTURE I CRY
LEARNING TO BREATHE UNDER WATER
THE THIEF OF MIRRORS

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE AT THE GLENFIDDICH DISTILLERY

Hey everyone, By now some of you may have heard I will be in Scotland all summer. I'm really looking forward to this. Accordingly, I will be renting my Montreal place - 1000 sq. foot, 5 and a half (2 bedroom) apartment for the months of June, July and August. I live right downtown on a very quiet street in the gay village. I'm on 3 different subway lines. I'll post images soon (I hope) but message me privately if you may be interested or curious.

THIEF OF MIRRORS

2013

Happy New Year everyone! I'm in the process of updating my website, so a new site is around the corner, and with it, a renewed sense of responsibility and diligence. I haven't been updated in years so it kind of feels like I have a second apartment that I never use, never clean, and forget is open to the public. Apologies to people who check my site hoping to learn what I'm up to. I have a series of exhibitions/performances coming up in British Columbia this month. I will be installing at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria soon. The show is a group show called Traces, featuring my work alongside the wonderful Ed Pien and Alison Norlen. The opening is January 18th. Details here. I will then begin a series of performances in Victoria at Intrepid Theatre's Winter Lab. Details here. I will then proceed to the PUSH festival where I will be performing for the third year in a row. I will be presenting Winnipeg Babysitter on January 26th. Details here.

DANIEL AT NUIT BLANCHE

I'll be presenting a new performance in the 8 facade windows of the Drake Hotel (Toronto) tonight. I've employed 8 performance assistants for this. It's a pretty ambitious and totally insane 25 minute narrative titled, "Staring into Broken Light Bulbs". Simultaneously, the public opening of the Winnipeg Now exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery will take place. This is also a Nuit Blanche event. Both events will run all night, or until I completely dissolve into a puddle of fatigue. Toronto details here. And Winnipeg details here.

SEPTEMBER

I performed last week at International House in Philadelphia. This has become a kind of annual gig and I really love it. Special thanks again to Herbie, Robert, Jesse and Jesse for bringing me back again. This Saturday, September the 22 I will be presenting WINNIPEG BABYSITTER at Plug In ICA in Winnipeg. This is presented in conjunction with MY WINNIPEG PROJECT. Details here. Then at the WAG, a few nights later, I will present my latest "registered projection", The Thief of Mirrors, along with a new series of pastel drawings. Details here. On the same night (September 29), I will present my brand new performance, "Staring into Broken Light Bulbs", in Toronto. This is a 30-minute, 9-channel projection piece on the facade of the Drake hotel. It's my homage to Hitchcock's Rear Window. Details here.

DANIEL AT MASS MOCA

I'll be presenting a new installation in the "Oh Canada" exhibition" at MASS MOCA this weekend. Come to the opening if you can. The train ride from Montreal is 8 hours, but beautiful (and cheap!) I'll be performing my new piece, "The Thief of Mirrors" but that has yet to be scheduled. The show is up for almost a year.Details here.

BAIE ST PAUL RESIDENCE, AUGUST 2011

I will be participating in the Symposium International D'art Contemporain de Baie St Paul this month. Details here.

DANIEL IN FRIEZE MAGAZINE, APRIL 2011

There's a nice review of my solo exhibition at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects in the latest issue of Frieze by Rose Bouthillier.

DOCUMENTATION OF MONTREAL INSTALLATION

I have posted documentation of the installation of 2 registered projections, titled Learning to Breathe Underwater and House on Fire, at the Musée d’Art Contemporain’s Sobey 2010 exhibition. "Learning to Breathe Underwater" is a composited, and projected image of a prince having sex with a mermaid on a canopy bed. It is made using 3 video projections and 5 overhead projections. The drapery of the canopy bed is projected through dishes of water animated by fans. The viewer uses an aluminum “slipping slide” fastened to an overhead projector to activate the act of intercourse between the prince and mermaid.

"House on Fire" uses 3 overhead projectors to create the image of a large box of Kleenex tissue. A large mechanized pinwheel suspended over one of the projectors provides a never-ending billow of tissue rising from the box. There are 10 cardboard-mounted slides piled next to another projector. Each features a 2-frame, “lenticular” animation of a pattern, which is animated only when the viewer drags it across the surface of the projector. See it here.