Œuvre d'art public
Hold That Thought
Artwork creator(s):
Mark, Kelly
Text author(s):
Mark, Kelly
Collaborator(s):
Neon sign construction by Orest Tataryn
Installation year:
2006
Remarks on location:
Intersection Avenue Road; installée sur la façade de l’église
Description:
Installation spécifique. Plusieurs des lettres ont été programmées à l'échec ou par pulvérisation cathodique (scintillement sur et en dehors) à des intervalles aléatoires.
Text of the artwork:
HOLD THAT THOUGHT
Artwork theme:
Idée passagère, expérience personnelle, temps (perte de temps, passage du temps)
History:
Événement: «Kelly Mark: Stupid Heaven» (Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, ON.
12 janvier-24 février 2008
Événement: «Kelly Mark: Stupid Heaven» (Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, ON. Commissaire: Barbara Fischer)
14 septembre-21 octobre 2007
Événement: «Kelly Mark: Stupid Heaven» (Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, Toronto, ON.Commissaire: Barbara Fischer)
13 septembre-28 octobre 2007
Événement : Scotiabank Nuit Blanche (Première exposition dans un espace public. Church of the Redeemer, Toronto, ON. Site specific installation created for the festival 2006. Commissaires: Fern Bayer, Peggy Gale & Chrysanne Stathacos). Du coucher du soleil le samedi, 30 septembre au matin du dimanche, 1 octobre 2006.
Événement: «Apparent Death» (Wynick/Tuck Gallery, project room, Toronto, ON)
29 septembre-17 novembre 2006
Dimensions:
Height:
4.57m
Width:
8.13m
Depth:
7.62 m Note(s):
Installed at a street intersection…where people are forced to pause. This sign asks one to also pause ones mind…’to hold that thought’…if for only a moment. The temporal nature of this fleeting moment becomes a unique and personal experience for each viewer.
Thought and language are intimately connected. We cannot have a thought without also having the words we would use to express that thought to another. Streets can be viewed as the physical arteries of a city…When you try to hold a thought…the mind wanders, other thoughts intrude and displace…thoughts flow through our minds in the same way blood flows through our veins.
Source: Kelly Mark (2009). Kelly Mark: Sculpture.
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