CSA Space presents:
Lauren Marsden
The Seasonal Bachelor, The Frisky Entrepreneur,
The Sociopathic Gentleman, The Affectionate Drug Dealer,
The Son of a Dead Rock Star
21 January 2016 — 21 February, 2016
Opening Reception and Book Launch: Thursday 21 January 2016, 6-9pm
Curated by Steffanie Ling
"Janine Katzman was her name. She got me started. She told me, ‘I don’t care if you’re dating Marianne Ellis, the captain of the cheerleading team. I want you.’ She introduced me to a world where wants and needs can be met; where you can have what you want, if you can just get past that Judeo-Christian stigma of singular, solitary, proprietary, relational contract around boyfriend/girlfriend. It’s a value, whose exploration I’ve carried through life and so…you can call them trysts. You can call them that beautiful, elegant wrist bone of the mid-Western Swedish girl at the hotel. Please don’t forget the big heavy rock glass with gin. She’s there for a reason. It’s not the gin. I have a glass too and that’s not why I’m there." — Duncan Heath in The Audition Tapes, 2014
CSA Space is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Lauren Marsden: The Seasonal Bachelor, The Frisky Entrepreneur, The Sociopathic Gentleman, The Affectionate Drug Dealer, The Son of a Dead Rock Star. In her film The Audition Tapes (2014), these five, vaguely familiar, fictional men come to life through the meandering interpretations of 10 actors’ on-camera and improvised auditions. Accompanying the film is her new book titled The Book of Types, which documents how each elusive character has been repeatedly conjured through collaborations with San Francisco Police Department Officer and Composite Artist Elizabeth Prillinger and Vancouver-based designer Jaz Halloran. Through a series of fragmented descriptions, police sketches, and typography, The Book of Types leaves us with the traces of a cast that never was.
Lauren Marsden received her BFA in Visual Arts from the University of Victoria and an MFA in Social Practice from the California College of the Arts. She presents her work internationally in galleries and film festivals and has had recent exhibitions and screenings in Port-of-Spain, Mexico City, San Francisco, Vancouver, Victoria, and Chicago. She teaches at the School for Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University and edits for the San Francisco Arts Quarterly.
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