International art events Parameters of Fear -exhibition and Bambi -video screening organised by the artist Gun Holmström at MUU gallery in October 2004. The visual artists in this group came together while attending a recent residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida. While working with artist, Gillian Wearing, the group found much common ground amidst the diversity in their work, co-existing and creating collaboratively with a lively creative and interdisciplinary dialogue and exchange.

PARAMETERS OF FEAR
October 1-17, 2004
The opening is on Friday October 1 at 5-7pm.
Video, photography, installation, artist presentation

Artists
Gabriel Martinez (USA) - CV
Paul Rowley (Ireland) & David Phillips (USA) - CV
Juliana España Keller (Canada) - CV
Gun Holmström (Finland) - CV

GABRIEL MARTINEZ
A PERFORMANCE “THE BLESSING OF THE CITY OF HELSINKI”
8-8.30am on Sunday, 3nd of October, 2004
as a part of the group exhibition Parameters of Fear at MUU gallery
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BAMBI – VIDEO SCREENING AND ARTIST TALK
Monday, October 4 from 6-9 pm
featuring works by the following artists:
Gun Holmström (Finland), Juliana España Keller (Canada), Gabriel Martinez (USA), Juan Recaman (Columbia/USA), Catherine Ross (USA), David Phillips (USA) & Paul Rowley (Ireland), Althea Thauberger (Canada).

PARAMETERS OF FEAR
An understanding of the "culture of fear" appears now to be of increasing importance. People are far from convinced that things are getting better - rather, that ours is the age of terrorism, environmental disaster and widening inequality. On a personal level, society's pressure on the individual increases, telling us that it's difficult to be satisfied with what life has given, one should always be aiming for something more.

Thusfar, fear has usually been explored psychologically, as one of many emotional states, but there is also a macroscopic view, arguing for the existence of a distinctive 'culture of fear' in contemporary societies. This is a culture built on universal panic, irrational behaviour, extreme and groundless fear, paranoia in the absence of any actual threat. And as society flees in the face of fear, perhaps this flight also takes place on a mental level, both individually and collectively, witnessed in a corresponding change in attitudes, values and norms.

The exhibition "Parameters of Fear" examines manifestations of fear both on a personal and social level, and as captured in the popular imagination. The exhibition aims to serve as a inquiry into how some of the phenomena associated with fear are constituted and negotiated.