Dave Dyment is Toronto-based artist whose practice includes audio, video, photography, performance, writing and curating, and the production of artists’ books and multiples. His work mines pop culture for shared associations and alternate meanings, investigating the language and grammar of music, cinema, television and literature, in order to arrive at a kind a folk taxonomy of a shared popular vocabulary.
The Morning Has Gold In Its Mouth, 2013
A frame-by-frame account of Kubrick’s The Shining, each annotated with text from fan sites, youtube clips and fan forums. The four-volume set includes countless arcane theories about the director’s intentions.
A lenticular photograph housed in an antique mirror frame. The photograph reflects a nearby dresser and (as in the film) the number of books changes as the viewer passes by.
Sidereal Time, 2009
“Dave Dyment’s mirror ball installation was fantastic. I walked to Victoria Park where most of the events were happening and could see his piece at a distance. As I approached, I could discern how it was made and I thought that hanging a bunch of disco balls from a crane in front of what would become an outdoor dance floor seemed a bit obvious. I was rolling this sort of evaluation around in my head, thinking of what I might write later, but as I got under the deluge of cascading light I lost my balance and was hit with vertigo. Something about the intensity of the stage lighting bouncing off so many mirrored, reflective surfaces resulted in this complete wash or carpeting of tiny, moving discs of light. The space became wholly immersive and the ground was undulating with a gentle yet disorienting wash of pale yet intensely vibrant speckles. I went away convinced by the work’s elegance and simplicity. Dyment’s piece created an insightful instance of something purely visual riffing on the space of music and the exuberant theatricality of an outdoor concert.”
– Sky Glaboush, Akimbo 01/10/09
Sourced from Dave Dyment’s Website