Aaron Carpenter: Finnnigin Swake

Presented on the Bonnis Media CoreVision dual outdoor screens at the intersection of Robson and Granville Streets. An Artspeak OFFSITE project co-presented with Other Sights for Artists' Projects.

Viewing and drinks, Friday, May 15, 6-8pm at the Lennox Pub (800 Granville Street)

As an OFFSITE extension of the Literally exhibition, Aaron Carpenter’s new video, Ffinnigans Wwake, will be shown on the Robson and Granville outdoor screens. In consort with his drawings for the exhibition, Carpenter has taken Joyce’s text and rendered it as a dramatic text crawl akin to the one at the opening of the Star Wars films. Intrigued (and perplexed) by Finnegans Wake’s multi-lingual puns, fractured dream narratives, and language experiments, Carpenter’s work conflates Joyce’s impenetrable opus with the disparately populist genre that is science fiction. Taking this notoriously difficult and experimental work of literature to filmic proportions, specifically referencing science fiction films, Carpenter sets up an interesting parallel; Joyce’s work is meant to recreate the experience of sleep and dreams, and science fiction (as both a literary and cinematic genre) is a fantasy based on speculative scientific discoveries and parallel universes.

Aaron Carpenter
Finnnigin Swake