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\n\nEdgar Arceneaux's selected dr awings all use the same methodology\, questioning the politics of naming\, identity and historical narrative. The video Canadian Rain by Trisha Donn elly shows the artist executing a series of unfamiliar gestures\, attempti ng to 'create' rain in a distant Canadian forest - the sincere exercise be ing a demonstration of unthinkable possibilities of the mind and will powe r. In the main hall\, Omer Fast's major new work Godville is constructed f rom interviews with interpreters of eighteenth-century characters in Colon ial Williamsburg\, a living-history museum in Virginia\, U.S.A. Through cu tting and pasting\, sampling and remixing the interviews word by word into new sentences\, a composite narrative emerges in which temporal markers a re blurred and the two biographies of each speaker\, real and fictional\, are blended into a single rambling whole. In the basement\, Rodney Graham' s installation Phonokinetoscope shows the artist re-enacting the first aci d trip taken by the synthesiser of LSD\, Dr. Albert Hofmann\, in 1943.
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