• Bang Bang Baroque: Base Score, Performer I, II & III and Guests 2022 Glass gobos, laser-cut chrome, 8.8 cm diameter each. Exhibition view Emma Waltraud Howes. The Time it Takes, Musée d'art de Joliette, 2024. Photo: Paul Litherland

  • Bang Bang Baroque: Base Score, Performer I, II & III and Guests; Performer Score I; Performer Score II; Performer Score III; Base Composer Score 2022 Glass gobos, laser-cut chrome, 8.8 cm diameter each. Exhibition view Emma Waltraud Howes. The Time it Takes, Musée d'art de Joliette, 2024. Photo: Paul Litherland

  • Performer Score I; Performer Score II; Performer Score III 2022 Glass gobos, laser-cut chrome, 8.8 cm diameter each. Exhibition view Emma Waltraud Howes. The Time it Takes, Musée d'art de Joliette, 2024. Photo: Paul Litherland

  • Bang Bang Baroque: Base Score, Performer I, II & III and Guests; Performer Score I; Performer Score II; Performer Score III; Base Composer Score; Performer I, II & III and Guests, 2022 Glass gobos, laser-cut chrome, 8.8 cm diameter each. Exhibition view Emma Waltraud Howes. The Time it Takes, Musée d'art de Joliette, 2024. Photo: Paul Litherland

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Bang Bang Baroque Gobo series
The Time it Takes

2022
Glass gobos, laser-cut chrome
8.8 cm diameter each

iva-1a. “Do not pray exclusively to the ancestors of the land; make room also for the spirits of the fault line, the new gods that scream through cracks with the first musical notes of worlds to come.”

—Bayo Akomolafe

A gobo is an engraved metal or glass plate that is placed against a spotlight to create illuminated designs on a surface. They are mainly used in theatre, music and light shows, and commercial events. Howes had several choreographic scores from the Bang Bang Baroque project cut into gobos for the shooting of the film. More than simply utilitarian, these objects are presented here for their aesthetic and mystical aspects: as cryptographic talismans carrying a new kind of language, the mythology of Bang Bang Baroque.

Exhibition History

  • The Time it Takes
    2024
    Musee d'art de Joliette
    Joliette, CA

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Acknowledgements

This exhibition is made possible by the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Superframe Framing Fund.

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