Œuvre d'art public

Change

Germaine Koh, Change, 1999
Location:
The artLAB , Perth Drive, London, ON, N6A 5B7, Canada
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Artwork creator(s): 
Koh, Germaine
Text author(s): 
Koh, Germaine
Installation year: 
1999
Remarks on location: 

Visual Arts Department, John Labatt Visual Arts Centre, University of Western Ontario

Description: 

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.

Text of the artwork: 

First coin:

BON

Second coin:

BIEN

Text theme: 
Personal gesture to another, charity, grace, kindness
History: 
Trans, The Artlab, John Labatt Visual Arts Centre, The University of Western Ontario, London
Event date(s): 
1999
Artist's biography: 
Germaine Koh
Document(s): 

Attractions de l’ordinaire sur l’œuvre de Germaine Koh

Loubier, Patrice (2005).  Attractions de l’ordinaire sur l’œuvre de Germaine Koh. Germaine Koh : works. Berlin : Künstlerhaus Bethanien GmBH, p. 123

Open Hours. An Exhibition by Germaine Koh, September 1 through October 20, 2002

Reinke, Steve (2002).  Open Hours. An Exhibition by Germaine Koh, September 1 through October 20, 2002. : McMaster Museum of Art, p. 32