Research in artworks: Temporary

Essays

Jenny Holzer, Essays, 1982Jenny Holzer, Essays, 1982Jenny Holzer, Essays, 1982Jenny Holzer, Essays, 1982
Artwork creator(s): 
Holzer, Jenny
Installation year: 
1982

Être

Large fluorescent orange fabric letters form the word "Être"  ("Being") and are set in a frame installed on a boat piloted by the artist. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Labrecque, Manon
Installation year: 
2002

Everything is going to be alright

Martin Creed, Everything is going to be alright, 2009.Martin Creed, Everything is going to be alright, 2009.
On a façade of the Wing Sang Building in Chinatown (the oldest building in the neighborhood), we can read the words "Everything is going to be alright." The neon letters are visible from the Georgi [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Creed, Martin
Installation year: 
2009

Fear

Leesa Striefler, Graymatter, 1989
Artwork creator(s): 
Striefler, Leesa
Installation year: 
1989

Feminists ought to get a good whipping

Rachelle Viader-Knowles, Feminists ought to get a good whipping, 2000Rachelle Viader-Knowles, Feminists ought to get a good whipping, 2000
Work consists of text cut into grass on a sloping hillside in a park. The text selected for this public artwork, refers to a quote by Queen Victoria where she expresses her disdain for the fledgling W [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Knowles, Rachelle Viader
Installation year: 
2000

Finding the Center

Kay WalkingStick,  Finding the Center, 1993
Photography placed in a billboard [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
WalkingStick, Kay
Installation year: 
1993

Five Billboards for Banff

Jochen Gerzv, Five Billboards for Banff, 1984Jochen Gerzv, Five Billboards for Banff, 1984Jochen Gerzv, Five Billboards for Banff, 1984Jochen Gerzv, Five Billboards for Banff, 1984
The posters show 5 upside down images of landscapes of the subboreal forest, accompanied by the following text in English, French, Hebrew, Russian and German: "Those who know will say least" (Hapkemey [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Gerz, Jochen
Installation year: 
1984

FLAGS Project

FLAGS Project, 2009FLAGS Project, 2009FLAGS Project, 2009
Artwork creator(s): 
Caribou, Stephanie; Coutu, Bobby; Kematch, Gabriel; Hiebert, Samantha; Sutherland, Destiny Dawn (with the collaboration of Scott Stephens, Sebastien Aubin, KC Adams)
Installation year: 
2009

Flashlight

Luis Jacob, Flashlight, 2005Luis Jacob, Flashlight, 2005
The message “EVERYBODY’S GOT A LITTLE LIGHT UNDER THE SUN” appeared at the Toronto Sculpture Garden in the spring of 2005. This message was written upon an LED sign that framed a climbing dome situate [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Jacob, Luis
Installation year: 
2005

Fortune’s Folly

Holly Newman, Fortune’s Folly, 2008Holly Newman, Fortune’s Folly, 2008Holly Newman, Fortune’s Folly, 2008
Text and objects are hung around a tree. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Newman, Holly
Installation year: 
2008

Four Sisters

John Armstrong & Paul Collins, Four Sisters, 2008John Armstrong & Paul Collins, Four Sisters, 2008John Armstrong & Paul Collins, Four Sisters, 2008John Armstrong & Paul Collins, Four Sisters, 2008
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 [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Armstrong, John; Collins, Paul
Installation year: 
2008

Fragmentary Evidence

Looking back at history as official interpretation of facts, and in this context, the power of institutions, the artist created three hundred artistic books that she presented at the reading room of t [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Neumark, Devora
Installation year: 
1993

Freeze

Rebecca Belmore & Osvaldo Yero, Freeze, 2006Rebecca Belmore & Osvaldo Yero, Freeze, 2006
Rebecca Belmore and Osvaldo Yero used ice to make a new artwork melt during the long sleepless night of the Nuit Blanche festival. A large block of ice signified a life-size form, the absent [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Belmore, Rebecca; Yero, Osvaldo
Installation year: 
2006

Garden Grow

Holly Newman, Garden Grow, 2001Holly Newman, Garden Grow, 2001
Veil with embroidery representing plants. The text is embroidered. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Newman, Holly
Installation year: 
2001