Présences du littéraire dans l’espace public canadien - Adverse Practises

Trading

Marie-Claude Langevin — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:13:30 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Muirhead, Ross

Artwork creator(s):

Muirhead, Ross

Text author(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

Artwork description

Source: Culley, Peter (1988). Adverse Practises. Vancouver: The Vancouver Association for Noncommercial Culture, p. 16

Description:

Photography in a bus shelter

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

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

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

Dimensions

Other information

Artist's biography:

Muirhead, Ross

Source:

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 <table border="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" style="padding: 0.75pt"> Contact: </td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt"> Krisztina Laszlo , Archivist </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="padding: 0.75pt"> Address: </td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt"> University of British Columbia, 1825 Main Mall, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z2 </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="padding: 0.75pt"> Phone: </td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt"> (604) 822-0001 </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="padding: 0.75pt"> Fax: </td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt"> (604) 822-6689 </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" style="padding: 0.75pt"> EMail: </td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt"> <a href="mailto:klaszlok@interchange.ubc.ca" target="_blank">klaszlok@interchange.ubc.ca</a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div class="im"> </div>

Document(s):

Adverse Practises (Practises Zealously Pursued Pass Into Habits)

Squid the most intelligent of invertebrates

Marie-Claude Langevin — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:09:13 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Gill, Don

Artwork creator(s):

Gill, Don

Text author(s):

Gill, Don

Text author(s):

Gill, Don

Installation year:

1988

Remarks on location:

Bus shelter on the Southwest Corner of Burrard and Robson Streets

Artwork description

Source: Culley, Peter (1988). Adverse Practises. Vancouver: The Vancouver Association for Noncommercial Culture, p. 16

Description:

Photography in a bus shelter

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

SQUID

THE MOST

INTELLIGENT

INVERTEBRATES

Text theme:

Intelligence (questioning the notion of )

Artwork theme:

Intelligence (questionning the notion of), 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

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.

Squid the most intelligent of invertebrates by Don Gill and Trading by Ross Muirhead are simultaneously exposed on the front and back of the bus shelter's advertising case.

Event: Adverse Practices

March 21-April 11, 1988

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

There exists more than one version of this piece.

Owner(s):

The artist

Source:

mailto:don.gill@mac.com

Document(s):

Adverse Practises (Practises Zealously Pursued Pass Into Habits)

We Are the World

Marie-Claude Langevin — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:26:45 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Lewis, Mark

Artwork creator(s):

Lewis, Mark

Text author(s):

Lewis, Mark

Text author(s):

Lewis, Mark

Installation year:

1988

Remarks on location:

Bus shelter Southwest corner of Burrard at Robson Street

Artwork description

Source: Culley, Peter (1988), Adverse Practises, Vancouver : The Vancouver Association for Noncommercial Culture

Description:

Photographic image in a bus shelter

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

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

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

Dimensions

Other information

Artist's biography:

Mark Lewis

Source:

Mark Lewis info@marklewisstudio.com 2. 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):

Adverse Practises (Practises Zealously Pursued Pass Into Habits)

Perhaps She Was So Wicked...

Marie-Claude Langevin — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:44:08 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Weaving, Jill P.

Artwork creator(s):

Weaving, Jill P.

Text author(s):

Weaving, Jill P.

Text author(s):

Weaving, Jill P.

Installation year:

1988

Remarks on location:

Bus shelter on the Southwest corner of Burrard at Robson Street

Artwork description

Source: Culley, Peter (1988), Adverse Practises, Vancouver : The Vancouver Association for Noncommercial Culture

Description:

Photography installed in a bus shelter

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

Perhaps she was so wicked because she had to wear those
shoes (February 1988, Glamour)
rings on her fingers and bells on the toes
position (s) in language
fetishistic functions of representation
non of the above
all of the above

Artwork theme:

Definition of self, construction of femininity in advertising, questionning of advertising practices, 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 from street audience

History

History:

February 29-March 21, 1988

Event date(s):

1988

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

Two black and white photographs are placed one above the other in the center of the poster. The red vinyl letters are superimposed over the photographs. The upper photograph comes from the film The Wizard of Oz (1939, MGM) and shows the legs of the deceased Wicked Witch of the East. Under that appears an advertisement for shoes in Glamour magazine from February 1988. Two actual size portraits are drawn on either side of the photographs. On the left is Billie Burke in the character of Glinda the Good Witch of the North (from The Wizard of Oz, 1939, MGM), and on the right, a self-portrait drawn from a wedding photograph taken in 1986.

Artist's biography:

Weaving, Jill P.

Source:

2. 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):

Adverse Practises (Practises Zealously Pursued Pass Into Habits)