Tragedy Plus Time

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Sonny Assu, BGL, Michel de Broin, Jason Cawood, Mark Clintberg, Troy Coulterman, Robyn Cumming, Thirza Cuthand, Keren Cytter, Kim Dorland, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, Erica Eyres, Hannah Jickling and Helen Reed, Alison S. M. Kobayashi with Christopher Allen, Divya Mehra, Christine Negus, Craig Francis Power, Joshua and Zakary Sandler, and Walter Scott.

Divya Mehra Artist Talk: Friday, July 4, 6:00 pm, RPL Film Theatre 

Central Gallery Opening Reception: Friday, July 4, 7:00 pm

Free shuttle service between Dunlop Art Gallery, First Nations University of Canada, MacKenzie Art Gallery (for the opening reception of Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture) and Sâkêwêwak Artist Collective between 7:15 and 9:15

Jason Cawood Artist Talk: Saturday, July 5, 1:00 pm, Sherwood Village Meeting Room

Sherwood Gallery Opening Reception: Saturday, July 5, 2:00 pm"Comedy is tragedy plus time."

This statement, attributed variously to Mark Twain, Steve Allen, Carol Burnett, Lenny Bruce, and Woody Allen, articulates the effects of time and critical distance, and the transformative and political dimensions of comedy. The artists in Tragedy Plus Time use humour to address a spectrum of difficult content, from the trauma inflicted by general societal ills, to tragedies which are more personal and specific.

Large in scope and scale, Tragedy Plus Time occupies both Central and Sherwood Galleries, Dunlop’s Central Mediatheque, and offsite locales.

Hannah Jickling, Helen Reed, and Classroom Collaborators, Your Lupines or Your Life (Installation View), 2012. Photo by the University of Regina Photography Department.