Public Artwork

Pledge

Germaine Koh, Pledge, 2002
Location:
McMaster Museum of Art, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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.

 

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