24 hour 3 Stooges
Paul Collins
This ironic bon mot plays off Scottish artist Douglas Gordon's famous 24 Hour Psycho, a slowed screening of Hitchcock's masterpiece. Paris-based Canadian artist Paul Collins presents his take of Gordon's screening. Episodes of the Three Stooges, the famous slapstick trio of the 1930s, 40s and 50s, have been slowed down to a dream-like series of violent vignettes and transformed into something eerie and hypnotic.
Curly, Larry and Moe occupied a predominant place in the collective imaginations of Collins and his generation of babyboomers through their omnipresence on late 1950's and early 60's television. 24 hour 3 Stooges metamorphoses the slapstick into a hauntingly strange gothic dance. Nyuk nyuk nyuk.
The video projection takes place in the MOCCA courtyard. A cash bar will be available inside the gallery.
Photo courtesy of Paul Collins and MOCCA
