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Guy Maddin

Séance Fiction

Away from the chaos of the crowded tourist destinations of the Rocky Mountains, the landscape provokes considerations of history, time and an enduring natural power. This overwhelming and oft unnerving force of the mountains is a fine setting for “Séance Fiction,” curated by Peta Rake at the Walter Philips Gallery. In her essay of the same title, Rake references the chapter, “The Slow Cancelation of the Future” in Mark Fisher’s Ghosts of My Life, Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures (Zero Books, 2014), in which he laments a kind of loss of loss; a 21st century ability to access countless moments and times. In his discussion of temporality, Fischer references the British sci-fi television series Sapphire and Steel wherein Time was an anachronistic force.