a nice spring evening with Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay
Featuring Patrick Faas
Over the past few years Canadian artist Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay rapidly established his name with his short music clip-like videos. His major breakthrough came with his video “I am a boyband’, a piece that premiered at the Impakt Festival 2002 and was screened internationally at numerous festivals after that. In some of his works Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay uses existing popsongs and reinterprets them, adding new layers of meaning. The works of Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay show how in mass media pure, individual emotions are translated to easy to recognize and cultural accepted codes. In his video ‘I am a boyband’, for instance, he investigate representations of the adolescent male in pop culture. The four boys in this clip each represent a cliché from this segment of the music industry: the macho, the sporty type, the sweet and vulnerable one and the sympathetic ‘boy-next-door’.
In this Event Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay will give an overview of his work, including ‘I am a Boyband’, ‘Je Changerais d’Avis’, ‘Forever Young’, ‘Audition Tape’ and ‘Lyric’ (excerpt). Also he will show works by artists that inspire him: J’veux qu’tu m’veux’, Stefan St-Laurent (2001) ‘Chic Point’, Sharif Waked (2003), ‘That Beauty”, Dierdre Logue (2003), Heaven or Montréal’, Dennis Day + Ian Middleton (1997).
The installations ‘Lyric’ and ‘Live to Tell’ will also be exhibited as part of the Festival aan de Werf in Utrecht from May 20 to 29.
The Impakt Event with Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay is not only an artistic event put also a gastronomical one. Impakt invited food historian and culinary author Patrick Faas to create a three-course meal inspired by the works of Ramsay. Patrick Faas is known for his book ‘Around the Roman Table’.
This evening with Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay is nr. 6 in the series of monthly Impakt Events we will organize in 2004. With its Events Impakt every month presents, in an accessible way, the works of young and rising artists in the field of Film/video, fine arts, music and new media.