Public Artwork
We Are the World
Artwork creator(s):
Lewis, Mark
Text author(s):
Lewis, Mark
Installation year:
1988
Remarks on location:
Bus shelter Southwest corner of Burrard at Robson Street
Description:
Photographic image in a bus shelter
Text of the artwork:
We Are The World
You Are The Third World
Text theme:
Industrialized countries, Third World
Artwork theme:
Industrialized countries, Third World, injustice and economic imbalance, poverty and capitalism, overconsumption.
History:
- Exhibition We Are the World / White Noise, YYZ Gallery, Toronto, ON, 1988 (Wednesday, April 27-Saturday, May 21). This version of the work was in three languages: Korean, English and Afghan Farsi
- Exhibition Adverse Practices, Vancouver, BC, 1988.
Following negotiations with the city of Vancouver, the exhition was booked on the front and back of the advertising box in the bus shelter located at the Southwest corner of the intersection of Burrard and Robson Streets, from February 29 to June 13, 1988. The participating artists created specific new works for the project. Five three-week exhibitions followed.
We Are the World by Mark Lewis and Perhaps She Was So Wicked... by Jil P. Weaving simultaneously occupy the front and back of the advertising box in the bus shelter.
Event: Adverse Practices, February 29-March 21, 1988
Event date(s):
1988
Artist's biography:
Mark Lewis Document(s):
Syndicate
