Welcome Stranger Welcome Home

2002, single-channel video, 8:46

In Welcome Stranger Welcome Home the central figure becomes a kind of avatar, a digital stand-in that travels through artificial worlds. Given that her role-playing presence is nonetheless the most stable element within this spectacle [the Calgary Stampede Parade], the piece seems to hold hybrid or unfixed identity as a fundamental condition (or maybe survival strategy) of places constructed in the cultural imaginary - such as the anachronism of a contemporary Canadian Wild West.

- Germaine Koh

Installation view of Welcome Stranger Welcome Home, 2002, Glenbow Museum, Calgary (2002)

Video still from Welcome Stranger Welcome Home, 2002

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