WILLIAM A. DAVISON

CURRICULUM VITAE - FILM/VIDEO

779 Ossington Ave., Apt#2, Toronto, ON, M6G 3T8, Canada
Ph: 416-588-7539, E-mail: davison(at)recordism(dot)com

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2003

• Six Or More Heads (and one egg), C'est What Cafe, Toronto, ON (video installations)

2001

• Peephole, Art System, Toronto, ON (video installation)

2000

• Wavelengths, Ted’s Wrecking Yard, Toronto, ON (film projections)

1996

• Toronto Recordist Performer/filmmaker W.A.Davison exhibition, Altering Fields ‘96/Cinecycle, Toronto, ON (films and videos)

1991

• Industrial Primitive, Pleasure Dome, Cinecycle, Toronto, ON (Super-8 films)

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009

• Domestic Intelligence Surveillance Act #2, Somewhere There, Toronto, ON (videos/performance documents)

2005

• Encuentro Pata-Surrealista event, Buenos Aires, Argentina (videos/performance documents)
• Images Festival, various locations, Toronto, ON (Super-8 film)

2001

• Machine and the Flesh, Art System, Toronto, ON (video installation)

2000

• Peep Show and Porno Party, Art System, Toronto, ON (video installation)
• Solo Exhibition (a group show), Dandyco, Toronto, ON (film installation)
• TeeVee Show, Money House, Toronto, ON (video installation)

1999

• Anno 0, Stockholm Electronic Arts, Stockholm, Sweden (video installations)
• Archeologie Du Neoisme, Anti-Tube, Complexe Meduse, Quebec City, Que. (film)

1998

• Splice This! Super-8 Film Festival, Ted’s Wrecking Yard, Toronto, ON (Super-8 film)

1997

• The First Recordist Soiree, I.B.R.I., Toronto, ON (film installation)

1996

• Coat Hanger Cult, Cinecycle, Toronto, ON (video installation)

1993

• Aepocalexy event, Cinecycle, Toronto, ON (video)

1992

• Zero Work Jubilee, The Monastery, Toronto, ON (8mm films)
• Industrial Video, The Rivoli, Toronto, ON (video)

1987

• An Episode Of Sparrows, Truro, NS (Super-8 films)
• Ecphore '87, Halifax, NS (Super-8 films)

1986

• An Episode Of Sparrows, Truro, NS (Super-8 films)

 

CURATORIAL/ORGANIZATIONAL PROJECTS

2006

• W.A.Davison Youtube Channel (ongoing)

2004

• Recordist Open House, E.N.O.T.C.A. Studio, Toronto, ON (co-organized with S.Higgins)

2000

• First Recordist Improvisational Cinema, I.B.R.I./Pleasure Dome, Latvian Hall, Toronto, ON (large-scale improvised music and film event)
• I.B.R.I. Open Meeting, Anarchist Free Space, Toronto, ON (co-curated with S.Higgins, weekly from Mar. 1999 to May 2000)

1999

• I.B.R.I. Open Meeting, Anarchist Free Space, Toronto, ON (co-curated with S.Higgins, weekly from Mar. 1999 to May 2000)

1997

• First Recordist Soiree, I.B.R.I., Toronto, ON (co-curated with S.Higgins, various artists and artforms)

1994

• International Bureau of Recordist Investigation, Toronto, ON (multi-disciplinary art organization, 1994 - 2004)

1987

• An Episode Of Sparrows, Truro, NS (multimedia exhibition, co-curated with fellow members of Episode Of Sparrows collective)

1986

• An Episode Of Sparrows, Truro, NS (multimedia exhibition, co-curated with fellow members of Episode Of Sparrows collective)

 

FILMOGRAPHY

2012

• "Stactor Herky Jerky" (digital video)

2010

• "Six Heads at Electric Eclectics 5" (digital video)
• "Merzkopf" (digital video)

2009

• "A.G.O. Intervention Sept. 2002" (digital video)
• "Th W rbl r live at The Sail Shop 06/09" (digital video)
• "Stactor at Clubbb Dreaddd June 6/09" (digital video)

2008

• "Stactor at Null Space 10/08" (digital video)
• "World's Most Primitive Record Player" (digital video)

1997

• "Door Loop" (Super-8)
• "Mask Loop" (Super-8)

1996

• "Carnival Scene" (Super-8)
• "In The Trees" (Super-8)

1995

• "Scratch Film" (Super-8)

1994

• "Pornography 2" (video)
• "Genital Mash" (Super-8)

1993

• "Program" (Super-8)
• "Fly" (Super-8)
• "Station" (Super-8)
• "Bill Satan" (Super-8)
• "Death's Head" (Super-8)
• "Play For A Sealed Room" (video)

1992

• "Parallel Planes/Coinciding Planes" (Super-8)
• "Leg Loop" (Super-8)
• "Neoist Loop Series" (Super-8, Regular 8)
• "Origami Meat Play" (video)
• "And Sleep..." (video)
• "I've built this thing...now what?" (video)
• "Les Archives Calcinees" (video)

1991

• "Pixel" (Super-8)
• "Cathode Ray Dream (W.H.T.J.W.P.)" (Super-8)
• "Skull" (Super-8)
• "C.O.C." (various formats)
• "Red Blanket" (Super-8)
• "Garden" (Super-8)
• "R.P.M." (Super-8)
• "Half-Light" (video)
• "...night approached on rusty wheels. Outside we heard the drone of the engines..." (video)

1990

• "Shed 26" (Super-8)
• "Pornography 1" (Super-8)
• "Test Pattern" (Super-8)

1987

• "Skinned" (Super-8)

1986

• "Combination Head" (Super-8)

 

PRODUCT

2006

• Various Artists "Macrocephalous Compost 2" DVD, Old Europa Cafe, Italy (reissue. Includes "Origami Meat Play")

1995

• Various Artists "Macrocephalous Compost 2" VHS, Old Europa Cafe, Italy (includes "Origami Meat Play")

1994

• Songs of the New Erotics "Broadcasts and Solar Interruptions" VHS, Anathema, Can. (includes "Half-light" "...night approached on rusty wheels. Outside we heard the drone of the engines..." "Origami Meat Play" "And Sleep..." "I've built this thing...now what?" "Les Archives Calcinees" "Play For A Sealed Room")

 

REVIEWS AND ARTICLES

2007

• Kerry W. Zentner, "The Recordists", Mondo, June 18-25, 2007 issue (interview in online publication)

2006

• Silverhand, "Macrocephalous Compost 2", Heathen Harvest webzine, Dec. 15, 2006 (review)

2002

• Rebecca Caldwell, "Under the Sheets and in the Flesh", Globe and Mail, Sept. 21, 2002
• Ray Ellenwood, "Canada's Forgotten Surrealists", Artfocus magazine, Vol. 10, No. 1, issue #74

2000

• Maxx Rush, "Recordism: An Interview with William A. Davison", Melting Clock - Internet Journal of Surrealism, Oct. 2000 issue (interview in WWW publication)

1998

• Kevin Paisley, "Bill Satan In 23 Questions", Brain Scan, No.2, Feb. 1998 (interview)

 

LECTURES, READINGS, PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS

2005

• "Recordism", presented in the course "Modernist Movements: Dada/Surrealism in Europe and North America" (instructor: Prof. Ray Ellenwood), York University, Toronto, ON (artist's talk/presentation, co-presented with S.Higgins)

1999

• "I.B.R.I. Open Meeting", presented at Anarchist Free School, Toronto, ON (workshop and lecture series CO-presented with S.Higgins, weekly from Mar. 1999 to May 2000)

 

RADIO AND TV APPEARANCES

2006

• interview, Arts In Review, KALX Radio, Berkeley, California (with Sherri Higgins)

2005

• interview, A Missing Sense, CKLN Radio, Toronto, ON (with Matt Waldron, Sherri Higgins)

1999

• interview, Art On Air, CKLN Radio, Toronto, ON

1998

• interview, Bravo TV, Toronto, ON
• interview, About Town, CIUT Radio, Toronto, ON

 

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2005

• project grant, Integrated Arts program, Ontario Arts Council

2003

• project grant, Inter-Arts Program: Creation Grants for Artists, Canada Council

2000

• project grant, Inter-Arts Program: Creation Grants for Artists, Canada Council

1995

• project grant, Grants To Composers program, Toronto Arts Council

 

EDUCATION

• Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Experimental and Electronic Music Composition, 1988 - 1989
• Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS, B.F.A. Program, 1987 - 1989,1982 - 1983
• Atlantic Filmmaker's Co-Op, Halifax, NS, Small-Gauge Film Production, 1986

 

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