Packing the Fleece and Other Things

Daniel Laskarin

March 17 to April 22, 2006

Song for My Father, a performative sound-based installation: Saturday, March 18.

New sculptural work situated at the juncture of language and non-language, formal balance and non-balance, Packing the Fleece and Other Things reflects the artist’s “insistence on inconsistency.” Laskarin creates a series of provocative and mutable sculptural possibilities by conceptually reconstituting utilitarian objects in metaphorical space, conspiring with their ultimate destabilization while freeing them from their contextual surroundings and quotidian readings.

Born in Southern Ontario, but a long-time BC resident, Daniel Laskarin turned to visual art after a career in aviation and completed his MFA at UCLA in 1991. His artistic production is object-based, and uses a diverse range of media including photography and video, optics, robotics systems, installation and sound works, set design and public projections. Laskarin has been awarded large-scale public commissions in Vancouver and Seattle and he has exhibited in Canada, the United States, Europe and Brazil. He currently teaches sculpture at the University of Victoria, where he is Chair of the Department of Visual Arts.