Win, Place or Show and Journey into Fear: Stan Douglas: Interest and Interpretations
Stan Douglas is a contemporary Canadian artist specializing in photography, video and installation art (Gale, 1997). His works have been showcased internationally and among his most popular pieces are Win, Place or Show (1998) and Journey into Fear (2002). Criticism of Douglass work ranges from deliberately frustrating and boredom-inducing (Hackworth, 2002), to subtly theatrical with elegant efforts (Solomon, 1999), while others recognize the importance of such Douglas themes as lost time (Dorment, 200) and the occlusion of space (Lebredt, 2001) and still others regard Douglass art as multi-faceted existentialism (Birnbaum, 2000). Despite the differences of opinion that surround most notable works of art including the art of Stan Douglas, it remains clear that Douglas presents important, if controversial issues of our contemporary society such as logical narrative assumptions, technological dependence and temporal existence, using cinematic techniques and new media technologies (CBJ,
