Andrew J. Paterson
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Andrew J. Paterson is a Canadian inter-disciplinary artist, working with video, live performance, original text, film, and music. Paterson is also a published author and editor, who sees his multidisciplinary activities as existing parallel to his media-art practice.
During the 1980s he was the singer, songwriter and guitarist for the Toronto
punk band The Government
, which released several records and appeared in video work by Paterson, as well as other video artists.
Paterson is also an actor who has appearing in numerous videos and films, such as Boy, Girl
by Bruce LaBruce
and Zero Patience
by John Greyson
.
Controlled Environments, from 1994 is one of his many works on video.
Paterson's MONO LOGICAL is a series of seven monologues, plus clips from his narrative and performance-based video works (from the early eighties up until the early nineties). These clips are presented in tandem with his shorter digital new-media works and his more recent Super-8 tone poems. Paterson’s media works, tapes, and films combine photographic tracking shots, montages of mediated found images, and voice-over discourses concerning urban space, global economics, and sexual possibilities. MONO LOGICAL plays on the tensions between language intended to be communicative and language that isn’t. An academic, student, poet, police officer, entrepreneur, musician, and cleric all either lecture or perform. Their theatrical trappings might beg their sincerity, but their orations are to be taken very seriously. MONO LOGICAL throws curve balls and suggest parallel U-turns. http://www.mstfestival.org/artists03.html
Paterson is also the writer of numerous critical articles and co-editor of Money Value Art: State Funding, Free Markets, Big Pictures, with Sally McKay. The book addresses the traditionally polar relationships between state subsidization and private sector competition relation to the arts. Other Media Works by Paterson include: Cash and Carry [1999], Etiquette [from Controlled Environments] [1994], How Many Fingers? [1981], The Headmaster's Ritual [2002/03], Snowjob [2001], The Walking Philosopher [1999/2001], and Who Killed Professor Wordsworth? [1990].
During the 1980s he was the singer, songwriter and guitarist for the Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
punk band The Government
The Government
The Government was a Canadian new wave, art punk band, primarily active in Toronto during the 1979–1981 period.-Singles:* 1979 "Hemingway " / "I Only Drive My Car At Night" -...
, which released several records and appeared in video work by Paterson, as well as other video artists.
Paterson is also an actor who has appearing in numerous videos and films, such as Boy, Girl
Boy, Girl
Boy, Girl is a short experimental film directed by Bruce LaBruce.Boy, Girl stars G.B. Jones and Bruce LaBruce and was made in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1987. It is an experimental film which, aside from the two stars, features segments filmed from television of Mary Tyler Moore from the Elvis...
by Bruce LaBruce
Bruce LaBruce
Bruce LaBruce is a Canadian writer, filmmaker, photographer and underground gay porn director based in Toronto, Ontario.-Biography:...
and Zero Patience
Zero Patience
Zero Patience is a 1993 Canadian musical film written and directed by John Greyson. The film examines and refutes the urban legend of the alleged introduction of HIV to North America by a single individual, Gaëtan Dugas...
by John Greyson
John Greyson
John Greyson is a Canadian filmmaker, whose work frequently deals with gay themes. Greyson is also a video artist, writer and activist; he is currently a professor at York University, where he teaches film and video theory and film production and editing.-Background:Greyson was born the son of...
.
Controlled Environments, from 1994 is one of his many works on video.
Paterson's MONO LOGICAL is a series of seven monologues, plus clips from his narrative and performance-based video works (from the early eighties up until the early nineties). These clips are presented in tandem with his shorter digital new-media works and his more recent Super-8 tone poems. Paterson’s media works, tapes, and films combine photographic tracking shots, montages of mediated found images, and voice-over discourses concerning urban space, global economics, and sexual possibilities. MONO LOGICAL plays on the tensions between language intended to be communicative and language that isn’t. An academic, student, poet, police officer, entrepreneur, musician, and cleric all either lecture or perform. Their theatrical trappings might beg their sincerity, but their orations are to be taken very seriously. MONO LOGICAL throws curve balls and suggest parallel U-turns. http://www.mstfestival.org/artists03.html
Paterson is also the writer of numerous critical articles and co-editor of Money Value Art: State Funding, Free Markets, Big Pictures, with Sally McKay. The book addresses the traditionally polar relationships between state subsidization and private sector competition relation to the arts. Other Media Works by Paterson include: Cash and Carry [1999], Etiquette [from Controlled Environments] [1994], How Many Fingers? [1981], The Headmaster's Ritual [2002/03], Snowjob [2001], The Walking Philosopher [1999/2001], and Who Killed Professor Wordsworth? [1990].