Credos 3

The third edition of Credos took place on August 29th, 2020 as part of Art in the Open in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and supported by Verticale. It featured the work of Lea Cetera, Michael Eddy, Cliff Eyland, Michael Fernandes & Craig Leonard, Mina Hedayat, Asako Iwama & Derrick Wang and Sean Lynch.

 

Credos is an ongoing exploration into the spiritual searching that emerges through artistic practices. It began as a series of tabletop presentations of art works and discussions in church bazaars in Laval, Quebec. The invited participants are artists and writers whose work has engaged with belief in various ways, many of whom have dealt with their own personal experiences of organized religions, without staging a rejection or a celebration. Rather, there is a translation process involved.

 

See more about Credos here.

 

This edition also featured Credos Radio, an accompanying live 8-hour radio program, playing on a speaker as part of the installation in the plaza next to the Confederation Centre, as well as streaming online.
Access the recording here: https://www.mixcloud.com/Credos/

 

Or stream below:

 

 

photos by Elizabeth Wendt.

published September 30th, 2020

Conceptual Youth Hostel, the text

This text, realized for the second issue of HomeShop’s Wear journal (2010), was the culmination of a series of zines I had produced in printshops around central Beijing in 2009. The approach was similar to those zines, where most of the images were found on the print shop’s hard drives or made with their software, sometimes with the help of the clerks, and assembled in one night and printed in the early hours. For this text, however, I saved my work on the computers of a specific print shop, returning there consistently over several visits. Through this text I was attempting to describe an imaginary place called “the conceptual youth hostel,” where the conversion of experiences into fixed values was suspended.

See the PDF here: Conceptual-Youth Hostel_2010_Michael-Eddy

(Cleaning out data, I recently came across another trace of this project that couldn’t be included in the printed publication, which was that in the danwei housing compound in the Tuanjiehu (团结湖, literally “Solidarity Lake”) neighbourhood of Beijing where I lived, I had posted the pages on the local notice board.)



published June 13th, 2020

 

Wendel’s Institution: the live podcast

“Wendel’s Institution: the live podcast” is the storytelling performance recounting the 10-year process of collaborative writing between Michael Eddy and his uncle Alex Kreger, which was called “Wendel’s Institution.”

The live podcast streamed on April 30th, 2020.

Watch or listen to the archived stream here:
Wendel’s Institution: the live podcast

The performance was realized within the frame of Michael Eddy’s exhibition “Je suis,” at Fonderie Darling.
More information about the performance is available here: https://fonderiedarling.org/en/Wendels-Institution-The-Podcast.html

published May 9th, 2020

An Entry on Invasion

The Western was hunched over an encyclopedia, raptly scanning a timeline.

The etymology of the word invasion mostly suggests stability across thousands of years. It is a corridor of belligerence slicing through chaotic time. Going back, far back, origins seem to simplify into chunky basics. All of the overtones and connotations of experience are rolled back to the uncomplicated balls of dirt we used to toss around, as words. Go in.

Text commissioned for an artist catalogue that was never published.
PDF: Michael-EDDY_entry-on-invasion_2019

 

published March 17, 2020