Public Artwork
Trading
Artwork creator(s):
Muirhead, Ross
Text author(s):
Muirhead, Ross
Installation year:
1988
Remarks on location:
Bus shelter on the Southwest Corner of Burrard at Robson Streets
Description:
Photography in a bus shelter
Text of the artwork:
Stock Sales High Low Ch’ge
Gibi alerti 3500 18 18 18
Globai dat ¡ 27 27 -3
Globl strt a 15½ 15½
GMN gspi ¡ 100 100
Gld seekr ¡ 14 15 +4
Gold star i 9 9 -1
Gld texas ¡ 850 400 +50
Gld medal ¡ 25 25
Goldbelt 31900 99 90 99 +9
Goldbrae ¡ 230600 25 +5
Goldn bnd 5000 85
Gldn eye ¡ 500
Gldn hope 3000 90 -5
Goldn lion ¡ 10000 50
Gldn nv ¡ 14400 70 -10
Golden pr ¡ 3000 65
Golden pyr 3000 21 21 21
Gldn quail 2000 35 35 35 -6
Gldn quen ¡ 100 200 200 200 -10
Gldn rim ¡ 5712 35 35 35
Gldn sev ¡ 10000 81 80 80
Gldn sevii ¡ 1500 76 76 76 +3
Gld sitka ¡ 9336 90 85 90
Text theme:
Stock list
Artwork theme:
Illegal act of insider trading, commentary on the public sphere (by means of private advertising in public space) within the city of Vancouver, urbanization, deconstruction of opposing ideologies in the public realm, multiplicity of public discourse, street audience issues.
History:
Negotiating with the City of Vancouver, a double-sided bus shelter advertising display case was secured at the Southwest corner of Burrard and Robson Streets, between February 29 and June 13, 1988. Participating artists produced new work specific to the conditions of the project and exhibited for five consecutive three-week periods.
Trading by Ross Muirhead and Squid the most intelligent of the invertebrates by Don Gill are set simultaneously on the front and back of the bus shelter's advertising case.Event: Adverse Practices
March 21-April 11, 1988
Event date(s):
1988
Artist's biography:
Muirhead, Ross Document(s):
Syndicate
