This poster coincided with the premiere/exhibition Disheveled Destiny, shown from 29 September to 12 November 2000 at the Owens.

The world premiere of a videotape by artist Colin Campbell, commissioned by the Owens Art Gallery as our millennium project. Campbell’s career as one of Canada’s most important and pioneering video artists began with the production of Sackville I’m Yours, made in Sackville in 1972. That work, an exploration of the problematics of identity, dislocation and place, stands as a seminal work in the history of video production in Canada. Over 25 years later, Campbell returned to Sackville to produce Disheveled Destiny. in which we have the return of “Art Star,” “who unravels some forgotten (perhaps buried) histories of Sackville while probing the anxieties of the present’s concern about the future.”

In conjunction with the premiere of Disheveled Destiny, and as means of contextualizing it, the Gallery presented an exhibition of work by artists who have produced work which has responded to geographic, historic, social, cultural and/or moral climate of Sackville. The exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by guest-writer Emily Falvey.

Commissioned by the Owens Art Gallery with a grant from The Canada Council for the Arts Millennium Fund and the Marjorie Young Bell Fine Arts and Music Fund, Mount Allison University.