Scott Treleaven
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Scott Treleaven, Canadian artist.
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[edit] Overview
Employing collage, video, drawing, photos and installation, Scott Treleaven's work has been exhibited in galleries throughout North America and Europe. Critical writings have invoked references to writers like Jean Genet and Dennis Cooper, and photographer Nan Goldin, in describing Treleaven's place in "a lineage of obdurate misfits" (Artforum, Spring 2006).
Treleaven first came to attention in 1996 with his initial foray into filmmaking, "Queercore: A Punk-u-mentary". With its unique, collage-style approach, the movie proved to be a decisive documentary of the queercore scene in the 1990s. Featuring live performances by Los Crudos and Pansy Division and interviews with Martin Sorrondeguy of Limp Wrist, Chris Freeman and Jon Ginoli of Pansy Division and Anita Smith of Fifth Column, the film offered audiences at film festivals across North America and Europe a rare look at the queerpunk scene.
After the success of his film, he started work on a densely-illustrated zine called This Is The Salivation Army (1996-1999). It distinguished itself from other zines by incorporating a vivid mixture of punk, goth, occult, and industrial music aesthetics, alongside blatant homages to iconoclasts like William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, William Blake, Kenneth Anger and Derek Jarman. More importantly, the zine became a seeding ground for a variety of concepts and styles that continue to appear in Treleaven's visual art. Contributors to the zine included notable artists and writers such as AA Bronson, G.B. Jones, Jason Louv, Paul P., Genesis P-Orridge, Ango Visone (of Mariae Nascenti), and many others. In 2002 Treleaven presented an overview of his zine experience in a film entitled "The Salivation Army". Ferocious and hypotic, the film quickly garnered worldwide cult film status, leading it from underground distribution to the festival circuit, into galleries, and ultimately to screenings at the MOMA and Art Basel, Switzerland.
Treleaven is primarily recognized for his artwork, though his early work still continues it's own legacy. In 2005 photographer Carter Smith approached Treleaven about adapting his published horror story, Bugcrush, into a short film which has received much acclaim. Also a book marking the 10 year anniversary of This Is The Salivation Army, containing an entire reprint of the zines alongside some of Treleaven's recent drawings and collages, is now available from Printed Matter Inc. (NY) and Art Metropole (Toronto).
[edit] Films
- Silver (2006), with AA Bronson
- Gold (2006), with Genesis P-Orridge
- Lustre (2005), with Massimo & Pierce of Black Sun Productions
- The Salivation Army (2002)
- Beastboy (2002)
- He Is the Boss Of Me (2001), video for The Hidden Cameras
- PANic (1996)
- Queercore: A punk-u-mentary (1996)
[edit] Publications
- The Salivation Army Black Book, by Scott Treleaven,Printed Matter Inc./Art Metropole, 2006, ISBN 0-89439-021-X
- Generation Hex, edited by Jason Louv,The Disinformation Company, 2005, ISBN 1-932857-20-6
- We want some too: Underground desire and the reinvention of mass culture, by Hal Niedzviecki, Penguin Putnam, 2000, ISBN 0-14-029172-5
- This Is The Salivation Army, by Scott Treleaven, 1996 to 1999
