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Source URL (retrieved on 2021-11-09 18:10): http://plepuc.org/en/artwork/pledge

Pledge

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Pledge [1]

image/jpeg iconSource: Photo provided by Germaine Koh [2]
Location:
McMaster Museum of Art, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s): 
Koh, Germaine
Text author(s): 
Koh, Germaine
Installation year: 
2002
Remarks on location: 

Alvin A. Lee Building, University Avenue at Sterling St., McMaster University

Description: 

Pledge is an edition of copper tokens, each bearing the words "I WILL".

Text of the artwork: 

I WILL

Text theme: 
Commitment and social interaction, personal gesture to another
Artwork theme: 
Trade and social commitment
History: 

Exhibition: Hidden Rhythms, Museum Het Valkhof and Paraplufabriek (Nijmegen), 2005. Commissioner: Hilde de Bruijn.

 

Armory, 2005

 

Toronto International Art Fair (TIAF), Toronto, 2004

 

Open Hours, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Sept. 1-Oct. 20, 2002. Distribution libre, by the McMaster Museum of Art Gallery, Ledoco, 2002

Dimensions:

Diameter: 
0.025m
Note(s): 

The Pledge coins were exhibited at the Museum's numismatic centre.

 

Artist's biography: 
Germaine Koh [3]
Source: 
1. Germaine Koh, artiste 101 Niagara Street, Box 28, Toronto, M5V 1C3 416-365-7056 website@germainekoh.com 2. Germaine Koh peut être jointe en communiquant avec la galerie qui la représente - Catriona Jeffries Gallery 274 East 1st Ave., Vancouver V5T1A6 Canada Tél : 604-736-1554 cat_jeffries_gallery@telus.net
Document(s): 
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
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Koh, Germaine (2008).  Various projects: Pledge. <http://www.germainekoh.com/ma/projects_detail.cfm?pg=projects&amp;projectID=43>Germaine Koh webpage
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Links:
[1] http://plepuc.org/en/artwork/pledge
[2] http://plepuc.org/sites/plepuc.org/files/images/Pledge.JPG
[3] http://www.germainekoh.com/ma/cv.cfm?pg=cv
[4] http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php
[5] http://plepuc.org/en/print/843
[6] http://plepuc.org/fr/oeuvre/pledge