Curated by Emilie Chhanger and Philip Monk

Kristan Horton
Dr. Strangelove Dr. Strangelove
Years in the making, Kristan Horton's doubly legendary Dr. Strangelove Dr. Strangelove targets the AGYU with its explosive comic vision. With the obsessive meticulousness of the master himself, Horton has recreated each scene of Stanley Kubrick's original Dr. Stranglove film with objects at hand in his studio, deflating what is exaggerated in Kubrick's black comedy. In a suite of prints that follows the film's narrative but which remains focused only on what is depicted within the film frame, Horton pairs Kubrick's stylized images of weapons technology and cold-war brinkmanship with his own low-tech replicas. Horton's mimicking counter-strike replicates at a remove not so much the conflicts of technologies and nations at war but the games by which systems and simulations communicate with one another. The comanding power of this whole is further emphasized by the fetishized presentation within the installation of the artist book that completes the project, which has been produced for Horton's first solo exhibition in a public gallery.

Philip Monk and Emelie Chhanger

The publication of Dr. Strangelove Dr. Strangelove is generously supported by the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts.

Gastank and Carburator, polystyrene, inkjet print, nabob coffee tin

"To save the world, what is required, rests simply, on the idea, that certain, constraints, exist, which, confound, the, ..."

Stutter and Twitch, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, April 15 to 29

An email recounting a response to the work in NY: > attached is clear evidence that your work must have left quite an > impression, at least on one person. i came to the gallery to find a > piece of paper taped to the wall next to your work. as you can see, > they have copied your form of 'repeating half frame,' and replaced > your image with this strange man's and his strange words. (it's h.p. > lovecraft and the text is from his necronomicon.) > > it wasn't there on sunday morning when i came in, so i think the > person must have waited until near closing on sunday to make their > contribution. since the galleries are closed monday and tuesday, i > only noticed it on wednesday. i think it's marvelous and just left it there but i can take it down if you want. > > i asked a group of undergrads that i gave a tour to if they knew > anything about it, and asked them to pass my compliments to the fan, > if they know who he or she or they are. > > what do you think of this?