Carol Sawyer
CAROL SAWYER
May 2–June 6, 1998
This playful multi-media installation, reflects Carol Sawyer’s continuing investigation of female characters found in literature, popular culture and opera. Amazon is a photographic installation inspired by the evil femme fatales of 60’s and 70’s mythic fantasy movies. In Sawyer’s exhibition the Amazon serves as a humourous and critical model of bitchy autonomy and self-assertion; it is an identity or fiction that enables women to transcend expected roles of femininity. With its overlapping texts of gender, sexuality and power, the Amazon pushes beyond the limits of mortal and terrestrial boundaries.
Carol Sawyer, Prom Envy Fundraising
June 13, 1998
Artspeak Gallery Fundraising Event at the Ukranian Hall:
Music: The Falcons, Sean Macdonald, and band The Paar Bhangra. Performance: Carol Sawyer, Marlene Madison Plimley, and Lori Weidenhammer.
Performance and Publication launch
CAROL SAWYER
June 6, 1998
Performance by Carol Sawyer, and the launching event of her publication “Amazonia”: both accompanying her exhibition “Amazon” at Artspeak Gallery.
Title: Amazonia
Category: Artist Book
Artist: Carol Sawyer
Writers: Lorna Brown, Susan Edelstein, Carol Sawyer
Editor: Jacqueline Larson
Design: Roberta Batchelor
Publisher: Artspeak
Printer: S&T Stereo Printing, Chromatech Group
Year published: 1998
Pages: 28pp
Cover: Paper
Binding: Staple Bound
Process: Offset
Features: 8 colour images
Dimensions: 23 x 18 x 0.2 cm
Weight: 77 g
ISBN: 0-921394-28-4
Price: $6 CDN
The collaborative writing efforts of Lorna Brown, Susan Edelstein, and Carol Sawyer critically and humorously investigate femme fatale characters in popular culture.