Incantation: The Senses

Marie-Claude Langevin — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:12:32 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Kidd, Jane

Artwork creator(s):

Kidd, Jane

Text author(s):

Kidd, Jane

Text author(s):

Kidd, Jane

Installation year:

2006

Remarks on location:

The Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Arts Branch of Alberta Community Development

Artwork description

Source: Photo provided by Jane Kidd

Description:

The tapestry is conceived in two sections. The smaller panel functions as an introduction, somewhat like a decorative title page. The outer border pattern is ornate and lyrical, surrounding an interior field. A chant-like sequence of words is woven across the pattern of the interior field, representing a more physical, less romantic aspect of the senses. The large panel is dominated by five images that allude to the five senses.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

PLEASURE BITTTER CARESS
SILENT VIBRATION GLARE
SWEET FETID SALTY BLUR
TICKLE SOUR ROUGH
BURN MOIST STING SOFT
CLEAR RANCID SMOOTH
ICY PERFUMED LOUD ITCH
STROKE MELODIOUS
PINCH GRITTY DREAD PAIN
FRAGRANT JUICY FLUTTER
NUZZLE PUTRID RESONATE

Text theme:

The text is woven with an auxiliary thread and is slightly raised, Braille-like, off the surface of the tapestry. The text continues around the perimeter of the larger panel. Again, it is just readable depending on lighting, angle and distance.

Artwork theme:

Represents the somatic and the symbolic to create a visual and poetic celebration of the human senses and of the creative experience that links sensation, imagination and interpretation.

Dimensions

Height:

1.67m

Width:

Other information

Note(s):

My hope is that the images will resonate differently for each viewer and that they will suggest the interconnection between the senses and how we experience them. I have contrasted the richness of the five symbols and surrounding area with a stark black, white and grey frieze of visceral images of the human body and its interior workings. These images are ordered and coded like specimens for study, referencing the impulse to analyze, understand and control all aspects of the human experience and sensuality.

-Jane Kidd, Conservation with the artist, July 2009.

Artist's biography:

Jane Kidd

Owner(s):

The Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Arts Branch of Alberta Community Development

Source:

janekidd@telus.net

Tapisserie (McGill)

Marie-Claude Langevin — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:56:55 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

McAvoy, Kelvin

Artwork creator(s):

McAvoy, Kelvin

Text author(s):

McAvoy, Kelvin

Text author(s):

McAvoy, Kelvin

Installation year:

1969

Remarks on location:

In the lobby of the McGill University Library

Artwork description

Source: STM (2007). Les artiste du métro de Montréal Kelvin McAvoy.(http://www.metrodemontreal.com/art/mcavoy/mcgillmain-f.html)

Description:

Tapestry featuring the portrait of James McGill, a short biography in the centre and three images related to significant periods of his life on the right.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

James
McGill Born 1744
Glasgow
Began
Furtra
Ping
1767
Fought in war of
1812
Married
Madame des Rivières
1776 Bought

Burnside
Farm 1778, 46 acres
Died
1813

Text theme:

History

History:

In the summer of 1969, just months after it was installed at McGill Metro Station, the work was targeted by vandals. The tapestry was removed from the station to be cleaned but, because there was a dispute between the donor of the work and the Montreal Metro organization, it was never returned. The City of Montreal finally surrendered it to McGill University in 1972.

Dimensions

Height:

3.9m

Width:

3.5m

Other information

Owner(s):

Compagnie d’assurance canadienne universelle; STM

Présences du littéraire dans l’espace public canadien - Textile

Incantation: The Senses

Tapisserie (McGill)