Présences du littéraire dans l’espace public canadien - Multimedia, film and video

Berlin Project

Marie-Claude Langevin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:08:18 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Knowles, Rachelle Viader

Artwork creator(s):

Knowles, Rachelle Viader

Text author(s):

Knowles, Rachelle Viader

Text author(s):

Knowles, Rachelle Viader

Collaborator(s):

• Kitchener, ON, Canada : Andrew Wright, Ian Newton, Mary Catherine Newcomb • Berlin, Germany : Laura Bruce, Irma-Kinga Stelmach, Lena Zeise • Produced with the assistance of: Contemporary Art Forum, Kitchener, ON, Canada; Ed Video, Guelph, ON,Canada; Nathan Saliwonchyk (editor), Kathrin Becker, Vanessa Ohlraun (Cultural Officer, Canadian Embassy in Berlin).

Installation year:

2001

Remarks on location:

Site-specific video project for the council chambers, projected simultaneously on a large screen and on thirty monitors embedded into the architecture of the space.

Artwork description

Source: Photo provided by Rachelle Viader-Knowles

Description:

The project acts as a mediated dialogue between three artists from Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, and three artists from Berlin, Germany. Prior to 1916, the city of Kitchener was known as Berlin. In both Kitchener and Berlin, local artists act as 'guides', choosing a site of particular significance to them and recounting a story in their mother tongue. The artists also act as 'interpreters' by responding to the videos in the other language with a simultaneous written translation based either on their knowledge of the other language or by creative guessing. The written 'translations' appear as subtitles.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Remarks on image:

Image 1: details. Text in German. Image 2: detail. Text in English. Image 3: installation view.

Artwork theme:

The project attempts to position relationships between people and places, like communication, as a fluid, ongoing process of translation, interpretation and mediation.

History

History:

Event: Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area, Kitchener, ON.

Date : Sept. 15-23, 2001

Event date(s):

2001

Dimensions

Other information

Artist's biography:

Knowles, Rachelle Viader

Source:

Rachelle Viader Knowles Home (306) 522-4749 Work (306) 585-5554 Fax (306) 585-5526 Cell: (306) 501 8040 Email: rachelle.viader.knowles@uregina.ca Web: http://uregina.ca/rvk Department of Visual Arts,University of Regina 3737 Wascana Parkway Regina, SK S2S 0A2 Tel: 306 585 5554 Fax: 306 585 5526

Myodesopsies

Marie-Claude Langevin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:40:01 +0000

Artwork identification

Alternate title:

Myodesopsies 04 (Probable Song)

Artwork creator(s):

Dekyndt, Edith

Artwork creator(s):

Dekyndt, Edith

Text author(s):

Dekyndt, Edith

Text author(s):

Dekyndt, Edith

Collaborator(s):

Commission from Niel Minuk, Commissioner of Architecture II gallery.

Installation year:

2006

Remarks on location:

Around Russell Building courtyard; the text is placed inside the upper window

Artwork description

Source: Edith Dekyndt (2008). Selected Works. Myodesopsies. (http://www.edithdekyndt.be/)

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

IT IS THERE - IT IS NOWHERE - YOU SEE IT - OFTEN - ALMOST - EVERYTIME - IN FRONT OF YOU - BUT YOU ARE - ALONE - WITH THAT VISION - THERE IS SOMETHING - THERE IS NOTHING - IT COMES FROM - YOUR MOST - PROFOUND PAST - IT REMAINS - IN YOUR EYES - FROM - THE LIQUID STATE - OF YOUR - EMBRYONIC - EVOLUTION - WHEN YOUR BODY - WAS - 100% LIQUID - SOME CALL IT - MYODESOPSIES - BUT THERE ARE - OTHER WORDS - OTHER EXPRESSIONS - LIKE - FLYING DUST - IF YOU TRY - TO FIX IT - IT DISAPPEARS - YOU LOSE IT - INSIDE YOU - IT IS YOUR HISTORY - IT IS - THE ULTIMATE - THING - IN THE FIRST PLACE - OF ANYTHING - AROUND YOU

Artwork theme:

Myodesopsies

History

History:

The work has been exhibited since 2001 (various exhibitions). The original installation took the form of a white on white projection from which the text emerged gradually
Date: 2001 --
Event: Boondael Chapel, Elsene, Belgium. Commissioner: Philippe Perraux.
Date: 2003
Event: Exhibition Any Resemblance, 22 BPS Center for Contemporary Creation, Charleroi, Belgium. Curator: Pierre-Olivier Rollin.
Date: 2004
The work takes a new form in 2005, a sound installation.
Event: Hospice de Havré, Maison-folie de Tourcoing, Tourcoing, France. Curator: Véronique Barbezat.
Date: 2005
The work takes a new form in 2005, a sound installation.
Event: Tour & Taxis, Brussels, Belgium.
Date: 2005
Still in the form of a sound installation (created in 2005).
Event: Exhibition Two Pieces White, Arch 2 Gallery, University of Manitoba Faculty of Architecture, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Curator: Richard Perron & Neil Minuk.
Date: September 12, 2006-February 14, 2007

Dimensions

Other information

Artist's biography:

Edith Dekyndt

ReCALL

Laboratoire NT2 — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:09:00 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Moffat, Ellen

Artwork creator(s):

Moffat, Ellen

Text author(s):

Moffat, Ellen

Text author(s):

Moffat, Ellen

Installation year:

2005

Remarks on location:

In a storefront window

Artwork description

Source: Moffat, Ellen (2005). ReCALL. (http://www.ellenmoffat.ca/?p=327)

Description:

ReCALL is a video projection of image and text in a window. We can hear noises from the street ambience as soundtrack.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

The texts speak of smells, rhythms, folklore.

Text theme:

The “invisible residue” of a place

Artwork theme:

A reflection of local traditions, collective knowledge and personal mementos

History

History:

Created as an artist residency project at the Arts Center of the Confederation.

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

The data bank of images and texts reflect local traditions, collective knowledge and personal memories as a poetics of place.

Artist's biography:

Ellen Moffat

Document(s):

ReCALL

Surfacing

Marie-Claude Langevin — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:43:53 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Chang, Ana; Tsang, Henry; Bontogon, Eric

Artwork creator(s):

Chang, Ana

Tsang, Henry

Bontogon, Eric

Text author(s):

Chang, Ana; Tsang, Henry; Bontogon, Eric

Text author(s):

Chang, Ana

Tsang, Henry

Bontogon, Eric

Installation year:

1992

Remarks on location:

LED screens located at the following locations:

• The Flying Wedge Pizza Co. (outside), 1175, Robson Street
• Emily Carr College of Art and Design (reception), 1399 Johneston, Granville Island
• Espressohead Cafe (inside), 1945 Cornwall Street
• Proprioception Books (inside), 432 Homer Street
• The Block Shop (inside), 350 West Cordova Street
• Bulldog Café (inside), 510 Nelson Street

Artwork description

Source: VANCOUVER ASSOCIATION FOR NONCOMMERCIAL CULTURE, THE VANCOUVER, BC [file]. Montréal: Centre de documentation Artexte

Description:

A series of texts was presented on LED electronic message boards or using slide projections, community access television and local print media.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Remarks on image:

Image 1: details. Inside brochure. Image 2: detail. Outside brochure.

Text of the artwork:

She said, she called me Lily, again. And he
insisted that I’m precious Jade. I told them
they can call me Lily, Jade, China, what-
ever; makes no difference. They’re all the
same thing. They tell me I am so beautiful
and special, that I should feel proud to be
different. Am I supposed to be flattered? As
if he’s some kind of expert and she’s my
sister. Why do they believe that they know
me better than I know myself? What do
they want from me? My love? My loyalty?
My forgiveness?

She said, I began to say no, you have
mistaken, I am not your Asia. It’s not like
you, I’m told. When I assert myself, my
thoughts, my feelings, my story, am I
behaving unnaturally? No, I must insist
that you listen: I refuse the labels, the
masks, I refuse to identify with your image
of me. Why should your dream live on at
the expense of my self, my life? Give it up.
I will not give in. Because when I begin to
Forget who I am, where I’m from, I will also
Begin to forget that I have begun to forget.
As if change* does not occur. As if I am as I
have always been, unchanging.

West Side Story

Brand new house with large lot, facing
exclusive golf course/country club. Very
quiet, close to the river.
I was nine, in a new school in a new neigh-
borhood. We had made it, we had moved
to the West side. Here, we are poised on
the edge of the university lands, destined
to study in higher places.

Wall-to-wall carpeting, three bathroom, a
rec room, my own bed room. And a large
back yard with a fish pond my father built
in the far corner, so far away that I could
hardly see it from the house.

I didn’t know why I was called that. I didn’t
know what it meant. All I knew was that it
hurt to hear it, made me draw back, it
made me turn inward and become silent. I
suppose it was the way it was said.

The pond was stocked with gold fish, and
one summer a frog came to live there. It
was large and dark green and very loud. I
didn’t know how it got there, since our
yard was surrounded by a tall wooden
fence, but there it was. Then one day, it
was gone.

I became quiet and withdrawn. My world
shrank backwards and inside out. I felt
powerless and constantly under scrutiny.
I was vulnerable and did not know yet how to
fight back. Each day I feared being singled
out, to be made fun of, to be taunted, to
have my Chineseness become the object
of derision, for me to experience deep,
deep shame for being so special, so differ-
ent.

Black Night

Black night. A wavering sea of red and blue
light coloured my skin.

Surrounded. To serve and protect. I guess
they were just doing their job.

Bad Boys, Bad Boys, watcha gonna do?
I didn’t do anything wrong, really.

My warm flesh pressed against cold metal.
Do you have a record? No, officer, I only
have CD’s.

If Refugee, press 1, Landed Immigrant,
press 2, Asian Gang Member, press 3. You
speak English? My whole life flashed.

Want to see my records? Do I look like the
criminal type? Going to measure the size
of my skull? Stained. Weeks to get the ink
off your fingers, they say. I pay my taxes.

THE UNITED COLORS OF… what? It is my
brown skin, black hair, almond-shaped
eyes? You just happened to be at the
wrong place at the wrong time.

Text theme:

Racism experienced on a daily basis

Artwork theme:

Racism

History

History:

Three texts were presented on LED messaging screens and in slideshows throughout eight locations in the city of Vancouve; video versions were presented on Roger's cable (cable 4, Chinatown Today, September and October 1992) and printed versions were published in the double center-spread of Front magazine (November-December 1992 issue).

Event: Out of Place exhibition, organized by the Association for Noncommercial Culture, Summer 1992

Event date(s):

1992

Dimensions

Other information

Source:

1. Vancouver Association for Non Commercial Culture, centre d’artistes (1984-1998) (Fonds Vancouver Association for Non Commercial Culture fonds) en la possession de la Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery University of British Columbia Contact: Krisztina Laszlo , Archivist Address: University of British Columbia, 1825 Main Mall, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z2 Phone: (604) 822-0001 Fax: (604) 822-6689 EMail: klaszlok@interchange.ubc.ca

Document(s):

Out of Place

Save Me

Marie-Claude Langevin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:59:30 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Wonnacott, Justin

Artwork creator(s):

Wonnacott, Justin

Text author(s):

Wonnacott, Justin

Text author(s):

Wonnacott, Justin

Installation year:

1993

Remarks on location:

Ciné-terrasse (a movie screen is mounted on the wall adjacent to the terrace, projections are presented every summer from June.)

Artwork description

Source: Justin Wonnacott (2008). Justin Wonnacott posts (http://www.aregeebee.net/pages/justinp.html)

Description:

Projected images outdoors

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

Save me

Text theme:

Call for help

Artwork theme:

Interpretation of moving images (exploration)

History

History:

Exhibition Ex site, New Line 7 = Outside Gallery 101, Ottawa, ON / Hull, QC, from July 9 to August 31, 1993. (Artists: Pierre Dalpé, Diane Génier, André Martin, Richard Nigro, Michael Robinson, Justin Wonnacott, Anne-Marie Zeppetelli. Curator: Richard Gagnier. Curator: Cindy Deachman. Eleven artists have been invited to invest 6 city sites to create works in situ. The screenings were held during the intermission, once a week throughout the summer.)

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

"The viewer could take it or leave it. The static nature of the image allowed people to study the image and assign meaning to it in ways that are different from how they would approach the moving images they usually saw presented there. The picture suggests that some action is desired of the reader, i.e.: save me but the "product" is ambiguous and open to many interpretations. The photographs are nineteenth century cartes de visite. The image held in the woman's hand shows a long dead quadriplegic civil war veteran in a studio. The man's hand holds a picture of a black man with what appears to be sugar cane on his shoulder. The red stripes are positioned as if they were a "comp" that would later be the place where the explanatory text would be placed. The image is an extended set of puns intended to connote diverse readings. The overall shape is like a flag, the predominant colours are red and black, the woman's hand is the "distaff" side, the action is in the present but the images proferred refer to memory and the past but their meaning is determined by the present use of them as historical documents. This was the first digital work I produced for exhibition."

Justin Wonnacott (2008). Justin Wonnacott posts
<http://www.aregeebee.net/pages/justinp.html>

Artist's biography:

Justin Wonnacott

Source:

Justin Wonnacott, artiste justinwo@ca.inter.net, justinwo@rogers.com portable : 613 798 3858 domicile : 613 725 2680

Document(s):

Archives. Artistes / Expositions, 1983-1999. Ex-site

More Public Art. Public Art Commissions. Save Me

Bystander

Marie-Claude Langevin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:39:13 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Peacock, Jan

Artwork creator(s):

Peacock, Jan

Text author(s):

Peacock, Jan

Text author(s):

Peacock, Jan

Installation year:

2009

Artwork description

Source: The Prairie Art Gallery (2009). Here Now or Nowhere - Exhibition. (http://www.herenowornowhere.com/exhibition.html)

Description:

A love poem is scattered across paper clippings and, from them, a gift is made by hand. Bystander involves a "performance for scanner", presented in three chapters on video monitors – with a charming epilogue.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

We Glimpse Your Perfect Words

Text theme:

Love poem

History

History:

Here Now or Nowhere is an exhibition of temporary public artworks presented throughout downtown Grande Prairie during the month of January 2009. The exhibition is designed to animate and engage the city through the presentation of a number of free events, objects and experiences. Based on the structure of last year’s exhibition – entitled Artery – which focused on video projections in various storefronts, this year’s iteration has been expanded to include an interactive audio work, a series of newspaper projects in the Herald Tribune every Friday, a free comic book and, for 3 nights only, a special installation in which a residential house glows with the light of 50 televisions.

Event date(s):

2009

Dimensions

Other information

Source:

The Prairie Art Gallery (780) 532-8111 www.prairiegallery.com Robert Steven, Executive Director/Curator rsteven@prairiegallery.com

Document(s):

Here Now or Nowhere: Northern Lights

Here Now or Nowhere - Exhibition

Prairie Artsters: Where’s the Here?

…8,9…

Marie-Claude Langevin — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:50:21 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Chen, Millie; Quigley, Warren

Artwork creator(s):

Chen, Millie

Quigley, Warren

Text author(s):

Chen, Millie; Quigley, Warren

Text author(s):

Chen, Millie

Quigley, Warren

Collaborator(s):

Schoolchildren

Installation year:

2005

Artwork description

Source: Warren Quigley (2009). Warren Quigley. (http://www.warrenquigley.com/projects.html)

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

J'ai peur
des fantômes

And be
there when
I want

The person
in front of
new house

Mangera
la terre
entière!

I fear
that the

J'ai peur
de l'obscurité

Je veux
beaucoup d'amoureux

Je souhaite que mes parents
reviennent ensemble

J'ai peur que les personnes sans abri
restent sans abri pour toujours

J'espère avoir
un chien

Je veux que les filles et les garçons
soient égaux

Text theme:

What does the future hold?

Artwork theme:

Future

History

History:

The artists conceived the project …8, 9…, and asked schoolchildren in the towns of Granby and Waterloo to participate, involving them directly in the creative process. During this exchange, the children produced symbolic images and formulated short phrases about their perceptions of the future.

Event date(s):

2005

Dimensions

Other information

Artist's biography:

Warren Quigley

Author's biography:

Millie Chen

Document(s):

Terrains d'entente, 2004-2005

Le débarquement de Noé

Marie-Claude Langevin — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:25:55 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Vigneau, Jean-Yves

Artwork creator(s):

Vigneau, Jean-Yves

Text author(s):

Vigneau, Jean-Yves

Text author(s):

Vigneau, Jean-Yves

Installation year:

2007

Artwork description

Vigneau, Jean-Yves (2007). LE DÉBARQUEMENT DE NOÉ. <http://www.vigjy.net/artiste/noe.html)

Description:

The work is divided into two parts:

This poetic fable is inspired by one of the greatest myths in the history of the world. The installation was set in a small green square with a tall tree, downtown Granby.

In the windows of the shop surrounding the square, videos about the local zoo's animals in their daily routines were projected.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

IL ÉTAIT UNE FOIS UN ARBRE

Text theme:

Written on the sidewalk, the sentence attracts attention towards the big tree that will disappear to make way for a commercial building, much to the chagrin of residents who love "their" tree.

Artwork theme:

The cage motif serves as a pretext to inspire a reflection on our own states of captivity, the limits of our vision of the world and our way of looking at reality.

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

Le débarquement de Noé was produced as part of a residency at 3^e Impérial, a contemporary art center, as well as daily visits to the Zoo de Granby.

Artist's biography:

Jean-Yves Vigneau

Document(s):

Le débarquement de Noé

The Raven

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:33:15 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Koh, Germaine

Artwork creator(s):

Koh, Germaine

Text author(s):

Poe, Edgar Allan

Text author(s):

Poe, Edgar Allan

Installation year:

2003

Artwork description

Source: Germaine Koh (2009). GERMAINE KOH. (http://www.germainekoh.com/ma/projects_mainpage.cfm?pg=projects)

Description:

The refrain from Edgar Allan Poe's poem applied to a wind-spun metal sign repeats an eerie mantra of perpetual loss.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

NEVER MORE

Text theme:

The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe

Artwork theme:

Perpetual loss

History

History:

1. Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), Toronto, 2005

2. Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (AGGV), Victoria, British Columbia, 2005

3. Yukon Art Centre, Whitehorse, 2005

4. Art Forum, Berlin 2003

5. Toronto International Art Fair (TIAF), Toronto, Ontario 2003

Dimensions

Height:

0.89m

Width:

0.46m

Other information

Note(s):

There are three copies of this work.

Artist's biography:

Germaine Koh

Author's biography:

Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore

Source:

1. Germaine Koh, artiste101 Niagara Street, Box 28, Toronto, M5V 1C3416-365-7056 website@germainekoh.commail@germainekoh.commobile +1(778)3179745Germaine Koh peut être jointe en communiquant avec la galerie qui la représente - Catriona Jeffries Gallery2. Charo NevilleAssociate CuratorCatriona Jeffries Gallery274 East 1st Ave., Vancouver V5T1A6 CanadaTél : 604-736-1554cat_jeffries_gallery@telus.net

Document(s):

Koh signage works

What Will You Do?

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:57:55 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Czegledy, Nina; Judelman, Greg; Hession, Deborah; Barber, Daniel

Artwork creator(s):

Czegledy, Nina

Judelman, Greg

Hession, Deborah

Barber, Daniel

Text author(s):

The public

Text author(s):

Public

Collaborator(s):

Hession, Deb

Installation year:

2007

Remarks on location:

B10 site on the map of the event

Artwork description

Source: CCCA (2007). Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. (http://www.ccca.ca/nuitblanche/nuitblanche2007/artists/b10.html)

Description:

A projected interactive installation displays the question "What will you do (to stop climate change)?" and invites the general public to respond with an SMS text message to a specified local phone number. Responses appear within seconds as part of a projected real-time visualization.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

[Text surface]

WHAT WILL YOU DO? TO STOP CLIMATE CHANGE Finish The Sentence With A Text Message To 416-555-1234 [Text of substance (partial list?)] Eat less meat Read books about it Use the compost Turn the lights off Educate my kids Take the bus Fly less Buy organic food Lose my air conditioner Get a smaller car Change my job Start a sustainable business Heat my home less in winter Use less water

[Text on the screen Simcoe and Queen (partial list)]

WHAT WILL YOU DO? TO COOL OUR EARTH? RESPOND NOW BY TEXT MESSAGE TO 647-449-9932 --- I will Reduce, Re-use and Recycle. I will dominate the arctic oil fields I will get a household energy audit. I will try to wash my dishes by hand. I will buy a really expensive hybrid car. I will consume less. I will water my lawn less frequently. I will give used clothes to charity instead of throwing them out. I will make sweet love in the environmental faculty. I will make love to mother earth and make new baby ones I will learn to spell properly so that people will respect my environmental ideas. I will not use condoms for they pollute the planet. I will tell omar to turn out his lights. I will use both sides of my toilet paper! I will car pool to work. I will only shower once per week. I will not buy disposable plates and utensils. I will pick up one extra piece of litter a day. I will not move to the suburbs like my stupid friends. I will paint myself green and run naked in the streets. I will replace my old refrigerator. I will eat tofu instead of burgers. I will reuse my plastic fork until I forcibly break it on a steak. I will keep my car tuned up. I will check my car tire pressure regularly. I will bathe every 2 days! I will buy recycled paper products. I will shower in cold water despite shrinkage. I will not eat at hot dog vendors who use styrofoam. I won’t use toilet paper when I go for number 2. I will live like a caveman. I will try to reduce my electricity use. I will plant my own vegetable garden. I will move in with Al Gore. I will eat less cats. I will volunteer to green NGO’s. I will make sure I will turn off my lights when I am not home. I will try to print less at work. I will turn off my lights when I am not using them. I will hug the person next to me when I see this message. I Won’t Drive A Car. Ever. I will overthrow capitalism. I will shut this screen down to save energy. I will buy fresh instead of frozen foods. I will use mostly all-natural, biodegradable cleaning products. I will never wash again… I will not over-dry clothes. I will ride my bike more. I will exhale less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. I will show the same respect to the world it has shown me. I will demand to know what’s in my food and where it comes from. I will not participate in balloon abundant activities. I will practice dimming lights in my home. I will buy products with less packaging. We will eat vegetarian. I will take a shower once a month.

Text theme:

Adopting a (more) ecological lifestyle

History

History:

From sunset at 7:03 pm on Saturday, September 29, to sunrise at 7:14 am on Sunday, September 30, 2007, Toronto was bustling with activity as thousands experienced a full night of contemporary art and performance in three zones across the city.

Event: Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2007

Event date(s):

2007

Dimensions

Other information

Artist's biography:

Nina Czegledy. Bio

Author's biography:

Greg Judelman. Bio

Source:

1. Nina Czegledy czegledy@interlog.com 2. Greg Judelman judelman@gmail.com 3. Deborah Hession Deborah@actionpactdesigns.com 4. Daniel Barber dabarber@uga.edu

Document(s):

Green Art

Exhibition: WHAT WILL YOU DO?, 2007

Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. Toronto Canada 2007. Nina Czegledy, Greg Judelman, Deborah Hession and Daniel Barber. WHAT WILL YOU DO?

Untitled

Marie-Claude Langevin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:13:28 +0000

Artwork identification

Alternate title:

Projections

Artwork creator(s):

Holzer, Jenny

Artwork creator(s):

Holzer, Jenny

Text author(s):

Szymborska, Wislawa

Text author(s):

Szymborska, Wislawa

Installation year:

2008

Artwork description

Source: Jenny Holzer (2009) Jenny Holzer-Toronto. (http://www.jennyholzer.com/Projections/site/Toronto2007/)

Description:

Video projections of words on a building

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

[…]I KNOW THAT I KNOW HOW TO KILL, THAT MAKES ME AN ADULT. AND MY SON PLAYS WITH A TOY GUN THAT KNOWS HOW TO OPEN AND CLOSE ITS EYES AND SAY MAMA […]

Artwork theme:

4 projections

Some people from Poems New and Collected by Wislawa Szymborska

The Joy of Writing from View with a Gain of Sad by Wislawa Szymborska

Tortures from View with a Gain of Sad by Wislawa Szymborska

History

History:

Event: Luminato Festival, Toronto (organized by Luminato and the Art Gallery of Ontario)

Event date(s):

2008

Dimensions

Other information

Artist's biography:

Jenny Holzer

Author's biography:

Wisława Szymborska

Source:

For media inquiries regarding Luminato, please contact: Laura Erika Barron Public Relations Coordinator lbarron@luminato.com (416) 368-3100 ext. 242 Bill Bobek Director, Communication & Media Relations wbobek@luminato.com (416) 368-3100 ext. 246

Document(s):

Jenny Holzer

Projections

ICONOCLASH : NIGHT of AWE DANCE PARTY

Marie-Claude Langevin — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:45:37 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Shiff, Melissa

Artwork creator(s):

Shiff, Melissa

Text author(s):

Shiff, Melissa

Text author(s):

Shiff, Melissa

Installation year:

2007

Remarks on location:

B7 on the business card of the event (Area B, exhibition number 7). Level Grange Road. Located at the North end of the park.

Artwork description

Source: CCCA (2007) Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2007. ( http://www.ccca.ca/nuitblanche/nuitblanche2007/artists/b7.html)

Description:

This installation pairs iconic movie scenes with a multicultural music mix to create an interactive dance party. The audience is superimposed onto these scenes via technology, provoking a reflection on issues of visual representation.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

The monotheistic god of the second commandment plumbs for abstraction so that He can demand a new discipline to be enforced on His subjects alone- The paradoxical result Is not NO image It is instead the image of abstraction that is to be produced. Caroline Jones Making Abs […] -- MY CULTURE IS YOUR FETIS[H] -- […] residing […] of a cow […] -- "come worship ye the Golden god of pleasure! [for he is] of Israel" -- The term "idol" in the Western context has always been used to refer to deities in pagan religions. In "idolatry" the agency of the person is thought to be displaced, irrationally, into the agency of the thing. But in polytheistic traditions, the deity is not a thing : the image, icon, or representation Is animated by the […] -- For Judaism, The desire to index Divinity With the Golden Calf Can be viewed as an ethical […]

Text theme:

Judaism, religious tensions, idolatry

Artwork theme:

Judaism, religious tensions, idolatry

Dimensions

Other information

Artist's biography:

Shiff, Melissa

Source:

1. Melissa Shiff, artiste 72 Major Street Toronto (Ontario) M5S 2L1 Tél : 647-273-6140 Courriel : melissa@melissashiff.com 2. Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Giannina Warren Media relations 416-395-7318 gwarren@toronto.ca informations générales : scotiabanknuitblanche@toronto.ca

Document(s):

Archive. Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2007 Zone B. Curated Exhibition. ICONOCLASH: NIGHT of AWE DANCE PARTY, 2007

Four Sisters

Marie-Claude Langevin — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:21:02 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Armstrong, John; Collins, Paul

Artwork creator(s):

Armstrong, John

Collins, Paul

Text author(s):

Armstrong, John; Collins, Paul

Text author(s):

Armstrong, John

Collins, Paul

Installation year:

2008

Remarks on location:

Parking lot at the intersection of Bay and Elm Streets. Site A5 on the map of the event.

Artwork description

Source: CCCA (2008). Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. (http://www.ccca.ca/nuitblanche/nuitblanche2008/artists/a5.html)

Description:

Four Sisters is a silent, 30-minute video sequence shot on Toronto's waterfront Gardiner Expressway during a late afternoon rush-hour commute, from East to West. The Gardiner, an elevated highway crossing much of the city, is flanked by a plethora of billboards and other signage. The video also documents a construction boom on redeveloped railway lands that parallel the highway. Near the end of the video, the Gardiner returns to ground level and a series of roadside topiary gardens depicting corporate logos and brand names come into view. Beneath the video is a running band of text that recounts 11 short, anecdotal narratives in either English or French.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Remarks on image:

Image 1: Retail; still. Text in French. Image 2: Retail; still. Text in English. Image 2: View of the installation. Current projection. Image 4: View of the installation. Current projection.

Text of the artwork:

[Narration 1/11] —

John, who has a penchant for institutional, self-service food, was excited about trying out the new cafeteria at Ikea. We were driving West along the Gardiner Expressway, the lake was on our left, occasionally visible between the Victorian fairground pavilions. Further along, on the right, we passed a series of topiary gardens where the shrubbery depicts various corporate logos and brand names: HP, Westinghouse, Sears, Deloitte & Touche, FedEx, Manulife Financial, Parmalat, Rogers, CGI, Weber, Waterhouse, CN, United Way, Ford, and the City of Toronto. As we drew parallel to the four towering chimneys of the Lakeview Generating Station, John suggested that we should call our new collaborative project “Lakeshore.” I readily agreed, but had great difficulty believing that we were actually going to Ikea to eat.

[one of eleven stories] —

There was a time when a person could make a respectable living by creating handlettered signage with nothing more sophisticated than a decent lettering brush and a pot of paint. A good signpainter was trained in proportion, scale and detail, understood the origins of typefaces, and had a penchant for experimentation. The trade also attracted other, less assiduous folk, who used it simply as a way to earn some quick cash and then crawl away inside a bottle. You could earn a surprising fee for just several hours’ work. Those of us who thought of ourselves as professionals would speculate on the identity of our fly-by-night competitors whose work was always a shaky, garish mess. Their lettering typically advertised a greasy-spoon restaurant or a discount yard-goods retailer — the proprietors of which presumably didn’t know or care that signpainters, who could have done a real job of it, existed. One such mystery artist we called the Phantom. His work was everywhere. The advent of computer-driven, polyvinyl letter-cutting machines in the ‘80s reduced the trade to a shambles. You no longer came across the Phantom’s work, or anybody else’s who had even a passing acquaintance with the systematic pleasure of twisting a letter out of a brush. What you saw instead was a digital smear of plastic, reams of bad layout and grating colour schemes seemingly shot out of a cannon by dolts who apparently knew how to stack enough dollars in a pile to buy the computer rig but didn’t understand the nature of the graphic travesty they unfurled in the public’s eye. Twenty-five years later, the signmaking business has tamed its machinery and discovered the secrets of composition and balance. Since most everything is plastic, vinyl lettering seamlessly blends in. Handlettering even rears its noble head occasionally when good taste prevails and budgets are extended. Just yesterday I caught myself gladdened to see the front window of a down-market eatery only recently lettered by someone with no ability.

[one of eleven stories] —

After finishing art college, I worked with Cliff for about a year in his West Toronto sign shop. The business was located on the ground level of a renovated warehouse, and Cliff’s unit had a large storefront window that faced out onto a quiet street of other light-industrial concerns. The candymaker Rowntree was just down the road from us. The sweet smell of chocolate frequently hung in the air. Business was intermittent. It was the early ‘80s and there was a recession. The computer-generated vinyl lettering that would soon replace the handpainted signage that Cliff specialized in was still a few years off, and on occasion we did get large jobs: showcards announcing seminars at dental conferences, outdoor signs advertising new residential developments, showpiece wooden signs for upscale restaurants. Often this work was last minute, and we would paint late into the night. Invariably, when this occurred we would get a call from a sexual prankster. He would dryly relate to us in great detail how terrific it was to masturbate while listening to the sound of our voices. Whenever I picked up the phone to find him on the other end, I would immediately slam down the receiver. This was an involuntary reaction, and may well have been exactly what the caller was looking for. Cliff, on the other hand, would switch the caller onto speakerphone, and engage him for some time by sarcastically playing along.

History

History:

1. History: created in 2007. Presented in a gallery. Event: Logo Cities: An International Symposium on Signage, Branding, and Lettering in Public Space, Concordia University, Montreal, QC Dates: May 4-5, 2007

2. Background: In cooperation with the Consulate General of France in Toronto. First exhibition of the work in a public space. Event: Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON Date: night of October 4, 2008

3. Event: Four Sisters, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, ON Date: October 10, 2008

4. Event: Evening performance, École Supérieure d'Art de Toulon, Provence méditerranéenne, Toulon, France Date: December 10, 2008

Event date(s):

2008

Dimensions

Other information

Artist's biography:

Logo Cities: An International Symposium on Signage, Branding, and Lettering in Public Space

Source:

John Armstrong jc.armstrong@utoronto.ca Paul Collins pcollins@club.fr

Document(s):

Painting in public. An illustrated overview of collective and individual work

Nuit blanche: Toronto en veille

Bulletin culturel

Archive. Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2008

Night watch: three years in, Nuit Blanche has grown into a 155-site beast. Five spectacles worth fighting the crowds for.(ART)

Personne aux commandes

Marie-Claude Langevin — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:43:40 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Bouland, Matthieu

Artwork creator(s):

Bouland, Matthieu

Text author(s):

Bouland, Matthieu

Text author(s):

Bouland, Matthieu

Installation year:

2007

Remarks on location:

Through a window giving onto a main downtown street.

Artwork description

Source: Galerie Sans Nom (2007). Trip Urban's Trip 2007. (http://www.tripurbain.org/2007/projets_fr_06.html)

Description:

Flash animations were shown through a window onto a main downtown street. Visible to passersby at nightfall, a new work from the series was presented nightly.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

(text incomplete)

Maintenant On parle de toi

History

History:

No One In Command was projected between November 3 and 10, 2007. Exhibition gallery by the Galerie Sans Nom

Event date(s):

2007

Dimensions

Other information

Artist's biography:

MATTHIEU BOULAND

Document(s):

Trip Urban's Trip 2007

One Garden One Night One Wish

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:05:04 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Zealley Andrew; Stathacos, Chrysanne

Artwork creator(s):

Zealley Andrew

Stathacos, Chrysanne

Text author(s):

Stathacos, Chrysanne

Text author(s):

Stathacos, Chrysanne

Installation year:

2006

Remarks on location:

Located along the "Philosopher's Walk" (footpath), St.George campus, between Hoskin Avenue and Bloor Street West, Southwest of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM, 100 Queens Park, Toronto, ON)

Artwork description

Source: CCCA (2008). ScotiaBank Nuit Blanche 2006. (http://www.ccca.ca/nuitblanche/)

Description:

Sound installation with printed paper elements attached to a tree.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

1,000 greetings from the Wish Machine Project, by Chrysanne Stathacos, 1997 - today (project still in progress).

Artwork theme:

Greetings, common desires (money, love, carnal desire, hope, joy, health, etc.), shared experience

History

History:

1. The texts of One Garden One Night One Wish reuse important excerpts from the Wish Machine Project (1997-present) by Chrysanne Stathacos. This interactive public art project was commissioned by Grand Central Station for the exhibition Creative Time in 1997-1998. The artwork was presented in several countries since, including the Power Plant Gallery in Toronto, in 1999, and in Frankfurt, Germany, in 2001

2. Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON Saturday, September 30 to the morning of October 1, 2006.

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

"1000+ Wishes is a book of anonymous wishes that have been collected from around the world via wishmachine.com, fax, mail, written and spoken"; "To date, over 20,000 people have participated in The Wish Machine Project. The Wish Machine is trademarked. 1000+ Wishes and wishmachine.com."

- Source: Chrysanne Stathacos. (2008). Artworks. The Wish Machine.

http://chrysannestathacos.com/one-garden-one-night-one-wish/

The tree emitted a sound score by Andrew Zealley, while Chrysanne Stathacos wrapped its trunk with silver strings and silver papers. Visitors were invited to attach printed 'wishes', available at the site, to its branches.

Source : Centre d’art contemporain canadien (CCCA) (2008). Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2006. Zone A. Yorkville. One Garden, One Night, One Wish
http://www.ccca.ca/nuitblanche/nuitblanche2006/artists/a7.html

Artist's biography:

Zealley, Andrew

Author's biography:

Stathacos, Chrysanne

Source:

1. Fern Bayer, commissaire de l’événement fernbayer@sympatico.ca 2. Peggy Gale, commissaire de l’événement galesnow@sympatico.ca 3. Chrysanne Stathacos, artiste et commissaire de la Zone A Courriel: chrysanne@verizon.net, ca@chrysannestathacos.com 4. Andrew Zealley, artiste info@andrewzealley.com, andrewzealley@sympatico.ca

Document(s):

1000+Wishes, The Wish Machine

Audiowork. One Garden, One Night, One Wish

Artworks. One Garden, One Night, One Wish

Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2006. Zone A. Yorkville. One Garden, One Night, One Wish

Archive. Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2006. Zone A. Yorkville. Curated Exhibition. One Garden, One Night, One Wish, 2006

Will Is Was

Marie-Claude Langevin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:59:41 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Skelton, Carl

Artwork creator(s):

Skelton, Carl

Text author(s):

Skelton, Carl

Text author(s):

Skelton, Carl

Installation year:

2002

Remarks on location:

The projection used the plaza side of the old building (AGH) as a screen

Artwork description

Source: Hunter, Andrew, Thomas McEvilley; Jessica Wyman (2002). Carl Skelton : Will Is Was. Hamilton: Art Gallery of Hamilton

Description:

Will Is Was was an outdoor projection/installation at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. The spherical object in the foreground was a modified lamppost containing a still image projector, which used the plaza side of the old building as a screen from dusk to dawn.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

We had to start somewhere

History

History:

Art exhibition at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, summer 2002. (Commissioner: Shirley Madill).

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

Will Is Was was an outdoor projection/installation at the Art Gallery of Hamilton in the summer of 2002. The spherical object in the foreground was a modified lamppost containing a still image projector, which used the plaza side of the old building as a screen from dusk to dawn. Every few days, the image would be changed manually; over the course of the entire summer, the images added up to the story of a tragic accident: confused by the appearance of the place, and by an alien pilot had crash-landed on the roof, where it was being held down by the museum's unusually powerful time-distortion effect.

Artist's biography:

Skelton, Carl

Source:

1. Carl Skelton 362 West 30th Street #1, New York, NY 10001 USA (917)601-7122 c a rl@ultratopia.com (personnel) Carl Skelton, directeur Intigrated Digital Media Institute at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn. +1-718-260-4018 cskelton@poly.edu (lieu de travail) 2. Art Gallery of Hamilton 123 King Street West Hamilton, ON L8P 4S8 T: 905-527-6610 F: 905-577-6940 www.artgalleryofhamilton.com info@artgalleryofhamilton.com All exhibitions are archived through the Registrar's office at the AGH (905-527-6610, ext. 249).

Document(s):

Will Is Was

Carl Skelton : Will Is Was

Hold That Thought

Marie-Claude Langevin — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:01:01 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Mark, Kelly

Artwork creator(s):

Mark, Kelly

Text author(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

Artwork description

Source: CCCA (2006). Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. (http://www.ccca.ca/nuitblanche/nuitblanche2006/)

Description:

Site specific installation. Several of the letters were programmed to fail or sputter (flicker on and off) at random intervals

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

HOLD THAT THOUGHT

Artwork theme:

Idea passenger, personal experience, time (lost time, passage of time)

History

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

Other information

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.

http://www.ireallyshould.com/HoldThatThought4.html

Artist's biography:

Kelly Mark

Document(s):

Scotia Bank Nuit Blanche. Toronto Canada 2006. Kelly Mark. Hold That Thought

Archive. Scotiabanck Nuit Blanche 2006. Zone A. Curated Exhibition. Hold That Thought, 2006. Kelly Mark

Sculpture. Hold That Thought

Kelly Mark

«voice…over»

Marie-Claude Langevin — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:26:59 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Wonnacott, Justin

Artwork creator(s):

Wonnacott, Justin

Text author(s):

Wonnacott, Justin

Text author(s):

Wonnacott, Justin

Artwork description

Source: Justin Wonnacott (2008). Voice Over. (http://www.aregeebee.net/pages/justinp.htm)

Description:

Computer-assembled photomontages, which blend layers of images and text together using the extended idea of community as the theme.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

1. Photomontage 1:

ice storm of 1998.

2. Texte:

charity

3. Photomontage 2:

old age, elderly people (underrepresented age group). Text: i will collect – small circles in air

4. Photomontage 3:

language. Text: mother tongue

5. Photomontage 4:

Community history, community identity over time. Text: history is what you want – words – deeds

6. Photomontage 5:

Text: becoming –was – I -- am

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

Voice over also (film?)

Order of photos uncertain (ignore numbers)

Commissioned by the Community Centre as part of a collaboration with the Dovercourt

Community Center and the city of Ottawa called «Artlink». Coincided with 10th anniversary of the opening of the new facility

Photos taken by staff and users of the centre. Text corresponds to comments and input from these people.

Artist's biography:

Justin Wonnacott

Words Travel Fast

Marie-Claude Langevin — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:32:24 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Art for Commuters

Artwork creator(s):

Art for Commuters

Text author(s):

Pohl-Weary, Emily; Schultz, Emily; Whittall, Zoe

Text author(s):

Pohl-Weary, Emily

Schultz, Emily

Whittall, Zoe

Installation year:

2007

Remarks on location:

All subway stations of the TTC

Artwork description

Source: Photo provided by Art for Commuters

Description:

Six animations played full-screen on Onestop's network for twelve hours, without interruption from news flashes and marketing

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

• Animation: Treading the Word Poetry by Zoe Whittall. Animation by Emma Lopez Hochem.

"You have water, and the word water. You have love and the word love, but the two will never meet. We will lie beneath the letters in a haze of diaphanous pollution and probability, weighing our odds. I love you at the end of a phone call, it hovers, before the click signaling the end of a sentence, then it falls like equivocal truth. We are mostly water. We are mostly love. We are trying to quit smoking and sugar. We are ridding the body of the word Body. We hold red fruit between our teeth. Our gum-lines pink softened typewriter ribbon. We wrap our meat singing corporate jingles. Not dental insurance and you can carry orajel in your purse to stave off crying jags of frustration. You are my heart, and you are my heart stitched into a canvas. I hold thirty coffee beans. I count caloric value. You have water, the word water, and the body is mostly. We hold ours close. We say the words in hopes they are doing their job and not being as indeterminate as they are. Language tries its best. Language gets straight Cs You have kool-aid and the word kool-aid, and the jingle comes when I’m sleeping. The taste is red. We drink water. We drink the word water. We lie beneath the W. We tell each other , You are not filled with lack. We sing beneath the R, Treading the word. The End."

• Animation: Denial chasers Poetry by Zoe Whittall. Animation by Emma Lopez Hochem.

"Under the circumstances I’d like to pretend the drinks you pour me are apostrophes housed in triples disguised as doubles liquor too sweet not to be fire back against boxes of empties surprising you at the pulse of the industrial dishwasher."

• Animation: Leftovers Poetry by Emily Schultz. Animation by Franco Barroeta Fonseca.

"The sky is a damp paper towel laid over the world to stop it from going bad. And you are in the bowl watching the morning light obstructed by layers – the walls of the city sloping gently above you so that the whole world lives within the mouth of a constant yawn. People in transit swim around you with goldfish mouths. Your boss gives you useless gifts to keep you on-board as you stumble home under that grey six o’clock sky watching the clouds for a break – a place where the thick rolls away, giving way to oxygen and earnest light." Emily Schultz

• Animation: Two Minutes (120 per hour) Poetry by Emily Schultz. Animation by Franco Barroeta Fonseca

"The rain folds the night, paper crackling between its arthritic fingers. We drive without talking, without thinking, the world around us an open mouth. The wheels hold us, humming over wet concrete. The searching green-eyed glow of speedometer. A billboard’s bright face against the dark. An exit sign. We follow the arrows, read without reading. Service center like a space station, we find our feet again, unfold-lock up, fumble, walk, and float. The air starched hard against our teeth. We carry out, and swallow sweet. Tonight, tonight, tomorrow, tomorrow, we go, slamming doors, tiny teeth of a key kissing the ignition."

• Animation: To Build A Home Poetry by Emily Pohl-Weary. Animation by Karen Richardson.

"Start with a firm foundation. Place the bricks just so. Avoid regrets, ghosts, fist fights, unemployment, dead cats buried in the garden low self-esteem, petty thievery, bullying, and assisted suicide. Cement should slide in between the scandals, forming bonds and hardening in the hot sun. A roof must bridge the walls. A swing set placed beneath the lilacs. Mousetraps purchased, installed. Finally, despite initial resistance, Erect a high fence around the entirety."

• Animation: My Gold Hair Is So Unreliable Poetry by Emily Pohl-Weary. Animation by Karen Richardson.

"Green light, the city rips past. Rain in Chinatown, fish markets, garbage bags oozing brown urine. Saturday night in dance-club heaven, teenage girls crumble under speeding tires. Lost in the midnight of boy love, Caught in flashes of light I sparkle brightly until hard night wind attacks my miniskirt high heels burn fire fueled by wandering. I always return to your smooth beer drinking, bubbles of love. The taxicab driver tries but he cannot bring me home fast enough Your eyes in the window. I walk up the path My left shoe grazes the curb F***king toes. It might have come from the neighbours, 'I guess I don’t love you' rippled out in all directions."

Artwork theme:

Stowage of the visual and literary art

History

History:

Graphic animation: Poetry and motion graphics were paired in the following manner: production of Emily Pohl-Weary (poetry) combined with that of Karen Richardon (graphic animation), Emily Schultz (poetry) with Franco Barroeta Fonseca (graphic animation) and Zoe Whittall (poetry) Hechem with Emma Lopez (graphic animation).

Transmission: With the collaboration of Onestop Media, media company that handles media network including the TTC (Toronto Transit Commission), the project was broadcast on screens in the subway TTC. a. "Home".

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

Words Travel Fast featured the poetry of Toronto-based writers who reflect on the experience of urban life. The motion-poems commissioned for Words Travel Fast emerged from the collaborative pairing of poet Emily Pohl-Weary with motion graphics artist Karen Richardson, poet Emily Schultz with motion graphics artist Franco Barroeta Fonseca, and poet Zoe Whittall with motion graphics artist Emma Lopez.

Artist's biography:

Art for Commuters

Author's biography:

Onestop Media Group

Owner(s):

Artists and poets

Source:

1. Patricia Griffith Network Co-ordinator, ONESTOP Network Member of CODA (Canadian Out of Home Digital Association) telephone : 416-646-7867 x47 | télécopieur: 416-646-2722 266 King Street West, Suite 300 Toronto ON M5V 1H8 www.oohdigital.ca 2. Onestop Media, questions générales : info@onestopmediagroup.com 3. Art For Commuters, questions générales : contact@art4commuters.com 4. Sharon Switzer Executive Director / Curator, Art For Commuters www.sharonswitzer.com sharon@sharonswitzer.com 5. Zoe Whittall : trash_ready@hotmail.com 6. Emily Schultz : emilyschultz@rogers.com 7. Emily Pohl-Weary : emily@kissmachine.com Dani Couture : dani.couture@gmail.com

Document(s):

Words Travel Fast 07

Art for Commuters. Past Projects

Wish you were here

Marie-Claude Langevin — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:08:34 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Woodcock, Laurel

Artwork creator(s):

Woodcock, Laurel

Text author(s):

Woodcock, Laurel

Text author(s):

Woodcock, Laurel

Installation year:

2007

Remarks on location:

B8 on the business card of the event (Area B, exhibition 8). Level Grange Road. Located at the North end of the park.

Artwork description

Source: CCCA (2008). Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. (http://www.ccca.ca/nuitblanche/nuitblanche2007/artists/b8.html)

Description:

Light projected on the ground

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

wish you were here

Text theme:

Inspire desire for the unattainable

History

History:

Wish You Were Here ³ YYZ Gallery, September 8-October 23, 2004, Toronto

Wish You Were Here: project for the "At The Corner of Time and Place" theme, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2007, Toronto. New version of the work (gobo projector, balloons filled with helium)

Event date(s):

2007

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

The phrase is familiar as it has been abused by generations on souvenir postcards. Once meant as a wholehearted invocation to the friend or family member who could not travel along to an exotic location, it has become hollow and empty, often used with sardonic intent.

Source: Kathie Bethune-Leamen, "Once more, with feeling," in: Play/pause/repeat, p.24-25

Artist's biography:

Laurel Woodcock

Source:

«Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Toronto Canada 2007». Sur le site Centre de l’art contemporain canadien. La base de données sur l’art canadien. http://www.ccca.ca/nuitblanche2007/artists/images/woodcock/index.html (Consulté le 1 juin 2008). 1. Laurel Woodcock, artiste Tél : 519-824-4120 poste 53659 laurelw@sympatico.ca (autre courriel : lawoodco@uoguelph.ca) 2. Giannina Warren Media relations Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 416-395-7318 gwarren@toronto.ca informations générales : scotiabanknuitblanche@toronto.ca Giannina Warren Media relations, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 416-395-7318 gwarren@toronto.ca informations générales : scotiabanknuitblanche@toronto.ca

Document(s):

Laurel Woodcock : play / pause / repeat