Public Artwork
Hold That Thought
Artwork creator(s):
Mark, Kelly
Text author(s):
Mark, Kelly
Collaborator(s):
Neon sign construction by Orest Tataryn
Installation year:
2006
Remarks on location:
Avenue Road intersection; installed on the façade of the church
Description:
Site specific installation. Several of the letters were programmed to fail or sputter (flicker on and off) at random intervals
Text of the artwork:
HOLD THAT THOUGHT
Artwork theme:
Idea passenger, personal experience, time (lost time, passage of time)
History:
Event: Kelly Mark: Stupid Heaven (Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, ON). January 12-February 24, 2008
Event: Kelly Mark: Stupid Heaven (Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, ON. Curator: Barbara Fischer) September 14-October 21, 2007
Event: Kelly Mark: Stupid Heaven (Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, Toronto, ON.Commissaire: Barbara Fischer) September 13-October 28 2007
Event: Scotiabank Nuit Blanche (first exhibition in a public space. Church of the Redeemer, Toronto, ON. Site specific installation created for the festival in 2006. Curators: Fern Bayer, Peggy Gale & Chrysanne Stathacos). Event date: sunset on Saturday, September 30 on the morning of Sunday, October 1, 2006.
Event: "Apparent Death" (WYNICK / Tuck Gallery, project room, Toronto, ON) September 29-November 17 2006
Dimensions:
Height:
4.57m
Width:
8.13m
Depth:
7.62 m Note(s):
Installed at a street intersection where people are forced to pause, this sign asks one to also pause one's mind, "to hold that thought," if for only a moment. The temporal nature of this fleeting moment becomes a unique and personal experience for each viewer.
Thought and language are intimately connected. We cannot have a thought without also having the words we would use to express that thought to another. Streets can be viewed as the physical arteries of a city… When you try to hold a thought, the mind wanders, other thoughts intrude and displace, thoughts flow through our minds in the same way blood flows through our veins.
Source: Kelly Mark (2009). Kelly Mark: Sculpture.
Artist's biography:
Kelly Mark Document(s):
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