Installation: Use for works, beginning in the 1960s, that use their exhibition space as part of their design. Demanding a viewer's active engagement, installations are often created by artists in direct opposition to the notion of permanent artwork, or art as a commodity.
Intervention: Interaction with a pre-existing artwork, audience, site or space.
The artwork is a colourful optical illusion of a giant steel ball suspended in the centre of a triangle.
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Artwork creator(s):
Tam, John; Hora, Rob
Installation and intervention ,
Permanent,
Interior,
Teaching and research,
Contest,
Random,
Commemoration,
Paint,
Paper,
Wood,
Stucco
The names of 135 Canadian women murdered since 1989 are written, interspersed with the phrase "lest we forget" throughout the list.
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Artwork creator(s):
Posyniak, Teresa
Artwork creator(s):
Catholic School Board Students
The massive sculpture, which hangs from the atrium ceiling of the University of Calgary's Scurfield Hall, is made from 29,064 laser-cut letters "x" in stainless steel. The total number of metallic "x"
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Artwork creator(s):
Lexier, Micah
Column made of books
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Artwork creator(s):
Johnston, Byron
DREAM.big consists of six decorative screens spelling out the word ‘DREAM’ in giant letters. Modular in construction, these screens do not obscure the building’s face. The word ‘DREAM’ appears,
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Artwork creator(s):
Moar, Donald
Text fragments in stainless steel are wrapped around poles at eye level. Each describes an ordinary moment, such as waiting for a train.
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Artwork creator(s):
Besant, Derek
Bridge, Abridged consists of several components which focus attention on the cutting-edge engineering and materials used in the pedestrian overpass structure. Adam Kuby integrates words and manipulate
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Artwork creator(s):
Kuby, Adam
A terse personal journal entry appearing daily in the classified ads and, in more recent versions, on LED message boards and roadside signs.
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Artwork creator(s):
Koh, Germaine
A series of artworks made by blocking out words from pre-printed signs, using pieces of self-adhesive vinyl, in order perhaps to isolate the underlying sentiments behind these stan
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Artwork creator(s):
Koh, Germaine
