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Source URL (retrieved on 2021-11-09 16:30): http://plepuc.org/en/artwork/dyke-house

Dyke House

  • Artwork acquisition: Event

Dyke House [1]

image/jpeg iconSource: Larson, Jacqueline; Monika Kin Gagnon (1993), Out of Place, Vancouver: Association for Noncommercial Culture [2]
image/jpeg iconSource: Larson, Jacqueline; Monika Kin Gagnon (1993), Out of Place, Vancouver: Association for Noncommercial Culture [3]
Location:
Various, 1100 Burnaby Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s): 
Holman, Shaira; Jones, Lizard; Sui, River
Text author(s): 
The Public
Installation year: 
1992
Remarks on location: 
4 locations: 1204 Georgia, East of Vancouver; 303 8th Avenue, West front, Mount Pleasant, Vancouver; 4000 Manchester Drive, New Westminster Street; 1100 Burnaby Street, West Vancouver
Description: 

This installation was placed in the back of a truck and moved to 4 different locations during the summer of 1992

Remarks on image: 
Image 1. Detail. lesbian household; Image 2. Detail. Figures ("resident") in bonded wood
Text of the artwork: 

[At the beginning:]



This looks like a nice neighbourhood
Yeah, I feel safe here.

[Added, 3 days:]



I don’t think people mind that we’re together.
well, we should still be careful about kissing
in the street.

[Added, 5 days:]



I met a lesbian who lives down the block
Great! This is becoming a dike neighbourhood.

Text theme: 
Homophobia, homosexuality (lesbian)
Artwork theme: 
Homophobia, homosexuality (lesbian), visibility, identity and safety of homosexuals in an urban residential district.
History: 
Exhibition Out of Place, organized by the Association for Noncommercial Culture
Exhibition from  July 1, 1992 to June 30, 1993. Work described as follows:

August 4 to 11, 1992: 1204 Georgia, East Vancouver
August 12 to 19, 1992, 303, 8th Avenue, Western Front, Mount Pleasant, Vancouver 
August 20 to 26, 1992: 4000 Manchester Drive, New Westminster
August 27 to September 4, 1992: 1100 Burnaby Street, West End Vancouver
Event date(s): 
1994
Artist's biography: 
Jones, Lizard [4]
Source: 
Vancouver Association for Non Commercial Culture, centre d’artistes (1984-1998)<br />(Fonds Vancouver Association for Non Commercial Culture fonds) <br />en la possession de la Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery<br />University of British Columbia<br />Contact:    Krisztina Laszlo , Archivist<br />Address:    University of British Columbia, 1825 Main Mall, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z2<br />Phone:    (604) 822-0001<br />Fax:    (604) 822-6689<br />EMail:    klaszlok@interchange.ubc.ca<br />2.    Shaira Holman<br />604-408-0118<br />shaira@vcn.bc.ca <br /><br />
Document(s): 
Out of Place
Larson, Jacqueline, Monika Kin Gagnon, Sandra Edmunds (1993).  Out of Place. Vancouver : Association for Noncommercial Culture
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Links:
[1] http://plepuc.org/en/artwork/dyke-house
[2] http://plepuc.org/sites/plepuc.org/files/images/dyke houseB.jpg
[3] http://plepuc.org/sites/plepuc.org/files/images/dyke houseA.jpg
[4] http://daryl.chin.gc.ca:8015/Webtop/Searchapp/ws/aich/user/wwwf/Record?upp=0&amp;m=1&amp;w=NATIVE(&#039;ARTIST+ph+words+&#039;&#039;jones+lizard&#039;&#039;&#039;)&amp;order=native(&#039;every+ar&#039;)
[5] http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php
[6] http://plepuc.org/en/print/1428
[7] http://plepuc.org/fr/oeuvre/dyke-house