Présences du littéraire dans l’espace public canadien - Ink

La ligne de front : sentier aux valeurs divergentes

Marie-Claude Langevin — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:20:05 +0000

Artwork identification

Alternate title:

The Front Line: Trail of Divergent Values

Artwork creator(s):

Lambert, Zoe

Artwork creator(s):

Lambert, Zoe

Text author(s):

Lambert, Zoe

Text author(s):

Lambert, Zoe

Installation year:

1996

Remarks on location:

Lakeside

Artwork description

Source: Art/Nature, Boréal (1996). Forêt-frontière. (http://ca.geocities.com/boreal-a@rogers.com/en/index.html)

Description:

Inscription of words in the bark of trees

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

(possibly incomplete text)

mother
---
feel
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t’sitsikink
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respect
---
care
---
give
---
taking

Text theme:

Evocation contrary to the violence of tree cutting

Artwork theme:

Logging on sacred land

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

• By loggers: notches painted in fluorescent orange and plastic ribbons showing the future path and the limits of the logging trail

• By Zoe Lambert: words written in black ink on the loggers' notches

Artist's biography:

Lambert, Zoe

Source:

Boréal Art/Nature Addresse: Case Postale 4717 Rivière Rouge (Québec), Canada J0T 1T0 Téléphone : 819 278-3273 ou 819 275-7727 Télécopieur : 819 278-3649 Centre: 6240, chemin de la Minerve, Labelle (Québec) Courriel : poulin.daniel@sympatico.ca

Document(s):

Forêt-frontière. Une action art/nature

Hygiene series

Marie-Claude Langevin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 02:55:13 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Göllner, Adrian

Artwork creator(s):

Göllner, Adrian

Text author(s):

Göllner, Adrian

Text author(s):

Göllner, Adrian

Installation year:

2000

Remarks on location:

Men's washroom , level 2

Artwork description

Source: Photo provided by Adrian Göllner

Description:

Images installed in the bunker's toilets.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

The night has eyes

The walls have ears

Red comes in many shades

Text theme:

Danger of infiltration and espionage

Artwork theme:

Cold War

History

History:

Art exhibition: Singular Fission/fissions singulières, Diefenbunker Museum, Carp (Ottawa)

Event date(s):

2001

Dimensions

Height:

0.46m

Width:

0.53m

Other information

Artist's biography:

Adrian Gollner

Document(s):

Art Goes Underground

The Show That Came in From the Cold

Aurora Readiness Centre

Marie-Claude Langevin — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:29:23 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

MacDonell, Annie

Artwork creator(s):

MacDonell, Annie

Text author(s):

MacDonell, Annie; The Public

Text author(s):

MacDonell, Annie

Public

Installation year:

2007

Remarks on location:

A10, room 066

Artwork description

Source: CCCA (2007). Annie MacDonell. Aurora Readiness Centre.(http://www.ccca.ca/nuitblanche/nuitblanche2007/artists/a10.html)

Description:

A precise recreation of Toronto’s official nuclear fallout shelter, built in 1962 at the height of Cold War tension, allowed Torontonians to explore the interior of the shelter as it was before it was dismantled in 1996. For one night, Cold War Toronto was brought back to life.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

Text by Annie Macdonell (in the decoration)

shape of fear wall

shape of hope wall

METRO STATUS BOARD

Text (excerpt from a film)

PREPARE TO LIVE

Text (partial) written by the public

SAVE ME

Be proactive

FAT MAN

MAKE it stop

Never knew a love like this

Pinot angrigio

Bears

Why can’t we be friends?

WE CAN CHANGE

DBA

WASTE of TIME

Dropping the F-Bomb

GIVE PEAS A CHANCE

Peace through Power

This is Witty

NO WAR

HUMAN RIGHTS

Peace

AHHHH

Stand up for your rights

Refuse to be afraid

WAR SUCKS

ALL WE ARE SAYING

THINK 4 YOURSELF

Logically we should be safe

Roots are flowers

ONE love

YOU

ANAL

Peace+love

PAUL Norrish

POISON

This is it?

THE END

NOT AGAIN

NOT COOL

E=MC²

SOS

Xeper

ART MATTERS

RAGE

WET PAINT

WAR CAN

YOU CAN’T HUG YOUR CHILDREN

PEACE STARTS WITH YOU

WISE-FOOLISH

DON’T DRONE & DRIVE

Leeroy Jenkins

NEVER AT HOME

BE BRAVE

LIVE-PEACE

THE END OH MY!

I believe LOVE is the ANSWER

LOVE WINS

LOVE MORE HATE LESS

ZOMBIE

be the change

BAD TIMES ARE ON!

DE TU ARTE A MI ARTE PREFIERO MI ARTE

Leslie is a FAG!

Why is this happening?

NO HATE

Refuse TO BE Afraid

LOVE CONQUERS ALL

SISTERS

YOU FORGET ABOUT ME

WAR IS GOOD

NO ETERNAL REWARD WILL FORGIVE

PEACE THROUGH TYRANNY

Remember UNGERN

PAX

EARLY TO BED EARLY TO RISE

WAR AND VIOLENCE KILL LOVE DOESN’T

U r all HUMAN

People kill people

Peace in the middle

Text theme:

Fear, hope, threat, the Cold War

Artwork theme:

Cold War

History

History:

• In the midst of a classroom set, materials such as paper, ink and brushes were provided to visitors. The only instructions they were given were written on a wall: "THE SHAPE OF FEAR WALL" and "THE SHAPE OF HOPE WALL". With the materials provided, visitors produced text and images in response to that.

• The exhibition included a reading area ("reference area", A. MacDonell), which put several documents at the disposal of visitors: photocopies of information gathered by the artist during his personal research into the Cold War, governmental graphics (municipal, provincial and federal) of the era estimating the impact of a possible nuclear attack on Toronto and the country, as well as cartoons of the '50s and '60s. A section consisted of the formal message issued by the Government concerning the Cold War. A second section included the media of the time who responded to this message.

Event date(s):

2007

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

The artwork was dismantled by the public at the end of the night of the exhibition. There exists no comprehensive documentation about the presence of literature in this work. No order was established to read the text of the work. It is read in an autonomous and random manner. No hierarchy is established in the text incorporated into the set, neither that which was created by the artist nor that which was created by the public, nor those contained in the various documents displayed in the reading area.

Artist's biography:

Annie MacDonell

Owner(s):

Annie MacDonell

Source:

«Annie MacDonell. Aurora Readiness Centre. 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/macdonell/index.html#19 (Consulté le 24 mai 2008). 1. Annie MacDonell, artiste T : 416 537 0973 17 Paton rd. Studio 2 Toronto M6H 1R7 annie.macdonell@gmail.com

Document(s):

Annie MacDonell. Aurora Readiness Centre

La Vie commune

Marie-Claude Langevin — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:01:09 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Lavaillante, Renée

Artwork creator(s):

Lavaillante, Renée

Text author(s):

Lavaillante, Renée

Text author(s):

Lavaillante, Renée

Installation year:

1989

Remarks on location:

The drawings were located on two floors of the station, in the corridors between the docks.

Artwork description

Description:

Seven traffic signs with plexiglas covers and black and white drawings. These represented outlined plots of cultivated land that the artist had traced during a trip to Crete. The phrase appeared on each drawing.

Text of the artwork:

Les gens vont et viennent tout le jour entre les parcelles

Text theme:

Life

Artwork theme:

The land

History

History:

Métro d’Art Event date: 1989-1990

Event date(s):

1990

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

The Métro d'art event was organized by Galerie La Centrale (at that time, La Galerie Powerhouse), in association with the Société des transports de la ville de Montréal, and included the works of twelve female artists in various metro stations around Montreal: Raymonde Jodoin (Crémazie Station), Michèle Assal and Christina Horeau (Jean-Talon Station), Marie Fraser (Laurier Station), Khadejha McCall and Loly Darcel (Sherbrooke Station), Kitty Scott and Laurel Woodcock (Lucien-L'Allier Station), Cecile Baird and Josée Pellerin (Lionel-Groulx Station), Carole Beaulieu and Renée Lavaillante (Snowdon Station).

Artist's biography:

Renée Lavaillante

Document(s):

L’espace et ses…régisseurs

Métro d’art. Galerie souterraine