Speaker Series: Matthew Buckingham

Matthew Buckingham will be discussing archives, a process of repetitive accumulation and storage. He will also be showing a 16mm film entitled Situation leading to a Story.

Buckingham’s exhibition Subcutaneous opens Tuesday, February 11 at 7:30 pm in Charles H. Scott Gallery. It is Buckingham’s first Canadian exhibition.

New York artist Matthew Buckingham uses film, video and photography to construct narratives about historical interpretation. Looking at the past in the context of the present, his work investigates the structures and attributes of producing systems of knowledge. Buckingham has had solo exhibitions at the Museum Moderner Kunst in Vienna, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm and PS1 in New York. His films have been screened at the Arnolfini in Bristol, The Danish Film Institute in Copenhagen, the Konsthall in Malmo, the Whitney and the MOMA in New York. Buckingham just completed a commission for the Minetta Brook Foundation for the Hudson Valley Project

The Speaker Series (2000–2006) was a programme of visiting artist talks and lectures organized by Charles H. Scott Gallery in conjunction with the Art Now course at ECIAD. The programme was initiated by ECIAD faculty Ian Wallace in the 1970’s as a series of lunchtime artist talks. Wallace ran the programme until 1998.