undiminish d in process
Pam Patterson
This exhibit is a fragment of a project-in-process entitled a battered ship, undiminish d which considers inter generational trauma, disability, and language within the Irish/Canadian immigrant body. My concern is with how language is silenced or used to befuddle, or reveal, and with how trauma is felt in the body.
A video still of my body bent over an old stone table behind the dairy cottage where I briefly lived in Ireland in 2017 is transposed here in exhibition with several gesture drawings “ reproduced as digital prints – of the three geese who visited me daily for table scraps. The geese, ever in motion, are captured as formally incomplete and as such act as metaphor for the battered body “ never fixed, always partial. But here I appear to rest, listening across time as the rooks call themselves home at dusk.
*Pam Patterson*, as a performance and visual artist, has exhibited and performed across Canada and internationally for over 30 years. Recent performance/video works include *Brick,* a commissioned performance for *Visualeyez*, Latitude 53, Edmonton and *Red Square* for *Torino PERFORMANCEART
International Festival,* Turin, Italy. Patterson exhibited new drawings, digital prints and photo works for the Kilkenny Arts Festival this past August, and with Leena Raudvee and Nat Piper for *Positive Masculinity*, Maison Depoivre, Prince Edward County, September-October 2018.
Pam Patterson would like to thank the Ontario Arts Council for grant support for this exhibition.