Research in artworks: Event

Aurora Readiness Centre

Annie MacDonell, Aurora Readiness Centre, 2007Annie MacDonell, Aurora Readiness Centre, 2007
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 [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
MacDonell, Annie
Installation year: 
2007

Autres lieux de passage et lieux d'arrêt

Caroline Gagné, Autres lieux de passage et lieux d'arrêt, 2003Caroline Gagné, Autres lieux de passage et lieux d'arrêt, 2003Caroline Gagné, Autres lieux de passage et lieux d'arrêt, 2003Caroline Gagné, Autres lieux de passage et lieux d'arrêt, 2003
24 plates have been moulded into the gullies that are created by ground erosion (through the movements of pedestrians). The sentences on the plates are taken from conversations with the pedestrians. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Gagné, Caroline
Installation year: 
2003

Babylon (and the Tower of Babel)

John McEwen, Babylon (and the Tower of Babel),1991John McEwen, Babylon (and the Tower of Babel),1991John McEwen, Babylon (and the Tower of Babel),1991
A series of seven rusted metal pedestals in which the letters of the word “Babylon” are formed as interior voids. Mounted atop one pedestal is a large urn set at a tilt, and atop another is one of McE [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
McEwen, John
Installation year: 
2003

Back Pain: An On-going Life Process

Action art based on a mail art activity. Five models of postcards were distributed in Montreal, Val-David and other places. A black & white photograph representing the artist's two children, [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Neumark, Devora
Installation year: 
1999

Because there was and there wasn't a city of Baghdad

Jamelie Hassan, Because there was and there wasn't a city of Baghdad, 1990Jamelie Hassan, Because there was and there wasn't a city of Baghdad, 1990. © JA
This work features a photograph Hassan took on her first visit to Baghdad, Iraq, in the late 1970s, when she studied Arabic at the University of Mustansyria. The photo shows the colourfully tiled dome [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Hassan, Jamelie
Installation year: 
1990

Berlin Project

Rachelle Viader Knowles, Berlin Project, 2001Rachelle Viader Knowles, Berlin Project, 2001Rachelle Viader Knowles, Berlin Project, 2001
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 [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Knowles, Rachelle Viader
Installation year: 
2001

Bus Power Series

Adrian Göllner, Bus Power Series, 2002Adrian Göllner, Bus Power Series, 2002Adrian Göllner, Bus Power Series, 2002
Posters produced for the ad-slots in the buses of the local transit system. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Göllner, Adrian
Installation year: 
2002

Bystander

Jan Peacock, Bystander, 2009
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 [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Peacock, Jan
Installation year: 
2009

Canboulay

Melinda Mollineaux, Canboulay, 1993
Flyers placed in various displays [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Mollineaux, Melinda
Installation year: 
1992

Champ de lumière en mémoire de Gaston Miron et Pablo Neruda

Daniel Hogue, Champ de lumière en mémoire de Gaston Miron et Pablo Neruda, 2005
Mirrors that have been placed on the ground, trace poems by Gaston Mirron and Pablo Neruda in braille. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Hogue, Daniel
Installation year: 
2005

Change

Germaine Koh, Change, 1999
A quantity of coin-like metal slugs, each engraved with the single word "bon" or "bien", are sent into circulation as an alternative form of currency. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Koh, Germaine
Installation year: 
1999

City Blocks

Jen Delos Reyes & Barbara Meneley, City Blocks, 2007
A large meeting table constructed of snow and ice bears a simplified map of Regina. Various city buildings and infrastructure are represented in moveable ice blocks, which participants are invited to [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Delos Reyes, Jen; Meneley, Barbara
Installation year: 
2007