Mark Boulos
- Publisher
- Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2012
- Category
- General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780888650047
- Publish Date
- Mar 2012
- List Price
- $30
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Description
Mark Boulos documents the work of the American born artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Amsterdam and London. The extensively illustrated catalogue from the exhibition of the same name held at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia (October 8-December 5, 2010) refers to three of Boulos’s most recent video installations, The Word Was God (2006), All That is Solid Melts Into Air (2008) and No Permanent Address (2010). Trained as a documentary filmmaker, Boulos’s large-scale, multi-screen video installations revolve around his interest in revolutionary ardour, political militancy and religious ecstasy. His research of radical organizations such as the Philippine revolutionary New People’s Army and the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta culminates in work that offers a non-journalistic, diaristic and very human portrait of people who have turned to militancy.
About the author
Scott Watson is Director/Curator of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery.