<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Garamond"><b>David Poolman & Roman Tkaczyk:<i> DEADERER</i></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Garamond"><i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Garamond">RENDER @ University of Waterloo<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">East Campus Hall</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Garamond">February 26<sup>th</sup> through March 20<sup>th</sup>, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Garamond">Closing event/concert: March 20<sup>th</sup>, 7-10pm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="http://render.uwaterloo.ca">http://render.uwaterloo.ca</a>/</font></div></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Garamond"><b><i>DEADERER</i></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Garamond"> presents collaborative works by Toronto-based artists David Poolman and Roman Tkaczyk that reference extreme forms of youth rebellion and symbolic violence with a particular emphasis on Death Metal culture. Working collaboratively, Poolman and Tkaczyk have executed a series of large format wall paintings and a photographic frieze of screen grab images. The wall paintings combine Tkaczyk’s explosion drawings (cars, figures, architecture) with fragments of cryptic text reminiscent of the doodled marginalia of high school boredom and rebellion. <b><i>Metalheads & Pitbulls</i></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Garamond">, the screen grab frieze, presents images culled from amateur band websites featuring basement performances complemented by the antics of pitbulls, the genres pet of choice.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Garamond">Part of an ongoing series of projects inspired by forms of contemporary music (including Chris Down’s <i>Death to Everyone </i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Garamond">presented in 2007) <b><i>DEADERER </i></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Garamond">takes its inspiration from the once obscure now more mainstream genre known as “Death Metal.” Developed in the suburbs of California and Florida, and eventually exported throughout Europe and Asia, the Death Metal scene began to take shape in the early 1990s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Unlike other genres of extreme music that preceded it<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(Punk, Hardcore, Speed Metal, and Noise) this scene sought to overthrow Christian ideology through the invocation and promotion of Satanic imagery, Norse mythology, Fascist dogma, and destructive acts of intimidation and violence. Death Metal has become hugely popular with disenfranchised suburban youth throughout the Western world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Its attraction is its ideological dissent from and destruction of the Status Quo, its embracement of ‘otherness”, and its utter rejection of all music and thought that came before it. <b><i>DEADERER</i></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Garamond"> is an absurdly elegant engagement with this music, youth violence, rebellion, and intimidation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Garamond">In addition to the collaborative works, the exhibition also includes two video works by Poolman, <b><i>13 Instances</i></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Garamond"> and <b><i>The Burning of the Nauvoo Temple (after Carl Christensen)</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Garamond">. <b><i>13 Instances</i></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Garamond"> is based on the artist’s engagement with a specific Death Metal community in Iowa. Like many of Poolman’s video works, there is a strong narrative thread weaving together seemingly disjunctive fragments of voice and image. <b><i>The Burning of the Nauvoo Temple</i></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Garamond"> video is based on the photographs of Varg Vikernes. In 1992 Varg Vikernes of the Black Metal group Burzum set fire to the Fantoft Stave Church in Bergen Norway. Vikernes documented his fires and used these photographs for the promotion of his band and as a tool to instigate others to follow in his footsteps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This triggered a spree of vandalism and arsons across Norway, Europe, and North America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Poolman’s video features animations by Jeremy Price and a soundtrack by guitarist Matt Killen.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Garamond"><b><i>DEADERER</i></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Garamond"> will close with a performance by <b>FightWithBears</b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Garamond">, a five piece hardcore band from Georgetown, Ontario. Scheduled for the evening of March 20<sup>th</sup>, the performance will be recorded and made available as a live EP produced by Poolman and Tkaczyk and released by RENDER as part of the DEADERER publication. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Garamond" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></p> <!--EndFragment-->
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