Stan Douglas

Stan Douglas is a Vancouver-based artist whose work addresses social and cultural issues through historical and contextual lenses. He has created films, photographs, and installations that reexamine particular locations or past events. One of Douglas' works is housed in the Woodward's atrium: "Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971," which depicts a scene from the Gastown Riot of 1971.

His works often take their points of departure in local settings, from which broader issues can be identified. Making frequent use of both analog and digital technologies, Douglas appropriates existing Hollywood genres (including murder mysteries and the Western) and borrows from classic literary works (notably, Samuel Beckett, Herman Melville, and Franz Kafka) to create ready-made contextual frameworks for his complex, reimagined narratives that pertain to particular locations or past events.