Tag: Installation

Credos IV

CREDOS IV

Credos IV is a book-as-exhibition, the fourth in an ongoing series of displays of artworks that elaborate on notions of belief (see below).  It was launched February 3rd, 2022 at articule artist run centre.
The 5 inch by 8 inch books are 150 pages in black and white with colour inserts. Each comes with handmade hardwood frames, individually covered in textile, which the books can easily slip in and out of (back and front covers offering different choices of image by the painter Mina Hedayat). Credos IV can be hung on a nail or fit on a shelf, and look nice on their own or in clusters. They come in a numbered edition of 200.
With contributions from Lea Cetera, Mina Hedayat, Craig Leonard & Michael Fernandes, Jones Miller, Pak Sheung Chuen, Jeanne Randolph, Alessandro Rolandi, Jamie Ross, and others.
They are priced at $30 and can be found at the following locations, with more distributors forthcoming:

Articule (Montreal)

Art Metropole (Toronto)

Axenéo7 (Gatineau)

Canadian Centre for Architecture bookstore (Montreal)

La Fonderie Darling (Montreal)

Librairie le Port de Tête (Montreal)

Verticale — centre d’artistes (Laval)

Credos is a series of exhibitions that started off as table-top group mini-exhibitions conceived for church-basement bazaars in Laval and Greater Montreal throughout 2019–20. The first two editions took place in different Armenian congregations in Laval. When the COVID-19 pandemic put subsequent Québec editions on hold, a version was transported to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and shown in the frame of the all-day public art festival “Art in the Open” in 2020. An 8-hour online radio program was broadcast alongside the tabletop displays.
Credos IV is also a response to social distance, but at the same time a furthering of an inquiry into the substitutions and translations of an exhibition into non-gallery spaces.

See more about previous editions here.

 

 

published Ferbuary 17th, 2022

 

World Portable Gallery Convention 2012

Exhibition realized in cooperation with Eyelevel Gallery, September 2012.

The World Portable Gallery Convention 2012 was an international convention on portable galleries and alternative spaces hosted by Eyelevel Gallery during the month of September 2012.

Against the backdrop of the construction of a massive $164-million convention centre in downtown Halifax—and therefore a huge emphasis on the economic potentials of convening and networking—the project celebrated the variety of spaces artists and others have initiated with the smallest of means.

Investigations were thereby conducted into topics including scale, autonomy, mobility, intimacy, as well as transitions from alternative to established, and the pathways between DIY and entrepreneur.

For a PDF of the book (size: 80 mb) documenting the project, click here

Smaller-size excerpts:

Introduction
Radical Napkin Theology

For more details on the project, click here

For a specially-edited issue of CTRL+P online journal, click here

Installation view, from left to right: Museum of Mental Objects (Judy Freya Q. Sibayan); Nasubi Gallery (Ozawa Tsuyoshi) showing Ken Lum; background: Gallery Deluxe Gallery (Paul Hammond and Francesca Tallone) showing Chris Foster; foreground: Reduce Art Flights (Gustav Metzger).

DIY MoMO Guidelines for the Museum of Mental Objects.

Nasubi Gallery showing Ken Lum.

Gallery Deluxe Gallery showing Chris Foster’s Convoy.

RAF campaign making appearances across the city.

Installation view, from left to right: Coat of Charms (Hannah Jickling) showing F* Mountain; Nanomuseum (Hans Ulrich Obrist) showing the shop (Vitamin Creative Space) presented by Matt Hope.

 

Out on the town: Coat of Charms showing F* Mountain’s Observer of Beautiful Forms; Nanomuseum making an appearance on morning TV.

Alopecia Gallery (Gordon B. Isenor) showing Duke and Battersby’s Heroin Song.

Installation view: Feral Trade Café (Kate Rich)

Velcro Gallery (Craig Leonard with Beck Osbourne) showing Open Call.

P.R. Rankin Gallery (Elizabeth Johnson and Michael McCormack) collected after-hours phone messages.

Michael McCormack introducing the panel “Expose Your Self.”

MediaPackBoard (Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel Dugas) on a tour around the Nova Centre construction site.

Site of the Nova Centre, circa September 2012.

The Tattler and I

In collaboration with Erik Blinderman.
16 mm film installation
“Nought to Sixty,” ICA, London, England (2008)

Two looped 16 mm films (approximately 3 minutes and 5 minutes in length) were produced in collaboration with Erik Blinderman to record differing photographic impressions of a single day. Both filming approaches used mirror attachments to the cameras to affect their relationships to what they documented: one camera peering through a hole polished in a magnifying mirror used the sun to burn holes in the newspapers it inspected closely; the other camera with a ‘spy lens’ mirror allowing the camera to secretly look at 90 degree angles and zoom in varying dimensions in and outside the mirror.

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Town Sign

Photography and installation.
“Welcome to the Neighborhood” Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Askeaton, Ireland, August, 2006.


This piece was initiated as a call to all citizens of a small Irish town (by local media and word of mouth) to participate in a group photograph to be used for a new sign installed at either entrance to the town.


↑: Image as it appeared on the sign.
↓: Documentation displayed on the wall of the Tourist Information Point in Askeaton.

北見作品 / Kitami Work

Photography of sculptural additions to existing commercial sign areas and other sites in Kitami, Hokkaido, Japan, 2005–2012.

Untitled (Appeal)
(2005)

Cherry Blossom Camouflage
(2005)

Nest
(2005)

Scarecrow
(2005)

One Plus One
(2005)

Magnet Sign
(approximately 1000 fridge magnets stuck to steel hoarding, 2012)


Available
(2012)

 

Messenger
(Black and white photo series, 2005)

 

Consent Form

Installation with text
“Fatti e finzioni della venusta isola di San Servolo in Venezia” Exhibition as part of artLAB artist residency on San Servolo Island, Venice, IT, 2006.


An alcove of the laundry room of a former insane asylum is occupied with a new wall, rendering it autonomous from the rest of the building. Bunk beds from the facilities are installed with lamps. The door leading into the space is left open and unlocked permanently. A ramp leading to the door has written on it in non-slip material, in English and Italian: “Access to the work happens under the direct responsibility of the visitor”