Daniel Barrow - Hall of Mirrors

Daniel Barrow
Hall of Mirrors
21st and 22nd February 2025
Performances at 7pm

Join us at MOCA London on February 21 - 22 (Friday - Saturday), 2025 at 7:00 pm for Daniel Barrow’s performance of Hall of Mirrors.
Admission to the performance is free.

The performance sees Barrow’s manual animation and digital puppetry projected on the front of MOCA, accompanied by his live storytelling. Daniel Barrow is a Montreal-based artist working in sculpture, collage, installation and performance, though their practice centers itself primarily on the act of drawing. They are best known for using an overhead projector to present pictorial narratives in "manual animations" - merging the methods and cultural histories of cinema, comics, animation, and magic lantern shows.

In this window presentation, Barrow will showcase the breadth of work they produced as a "manual animator". Barrow often uses overhead projectors as well as an antiquated, late 1980s AMIGA animation software (Deluxe Paint) to translate the gestures of cinema to a kind of digital ‘magic lantern show’. The performance is free and can be seen projected on MOCA’s large outside windows. Booked seating is available.

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Biography
Daniel Barrow is a Montreal-based artist working in sculpture, collage, installation and performance, though their practice centers itself primarily on the practice of drawing. They are best known for using an overhead projector to present pictorial narratives in "manual animations" - merging the methods and cultural histories of cinema, comics, animation, and magic lantern shows. In this window presentation, Barrow will showcase the breadth of work they produced as a "manual animator". Barrow uses overhead projectors as well as an antiquated, late 1980s AMIGA animation software called “Deluxe Paint” - translating the gestures of cinema to a kind of digital ‘magic lantern show’.

Barrow has exhibited widely in Canada and abroad. They have performed at The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), PS1 Contemporary Art Center (New York), The Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s TBA festival, and the British Film Institute’s London Film Festival. Barrow is the winner of the 2010 Sobey Art Award (Canada's largest art prize) as well as the recipient of the 2013 Glenfiddich Artist in Residence Prize.