Artworks

CURRENT and RECENT WORK

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Songs for Sick Buildings

Songs for Sick Buildings is an anthology of field recordings of people singing in public to buildings and landmarks that in some way are in need of healing. Some of these places are old and neglected, others haunted by troubled histories or troubling residents. Each person or group who offered to perform this healing act chose their song and their location.

For residents of cities, the fabric of our everyday lives is formed by the architecture that surrounds us. How can we move beyond alienation and isolation and see the City as a place alive with history and presence. Songs for Sick Buildings is not only an invitation to these artists to reclaim their public space with the power of their voices, but to everyone, everywhere. 

Part of the Contemporary Folk Research series.

Links:

Songs for Sick Buildings |

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Olympic Bardo

A sound work that includes video and text, Olympic Bardo considers the uncanny similarity between the found sound of the city of Vancouver, BC during the minutes immediately before and after Team Canada won the gold medal in Ice Hockey during the 2010 Winter Olympics and the deep and massive drones of Tibetan horns calling monks to meditation. It asks the question of what we should make of things were this NOT a coincidence but in fact an event precipitated by the riots in Tibet and its occupied territories in China, riots which have found their mimesis in the streets of Vancouver during and after the Winter Olympics, as well as London, the host of 2012′s Summer Olympics. Olympic Bardo proposes that what we are hearing is the sound of the invitation to an emanation of Kali, a goddess of destruction and transformation who’s work seems to be playing out all over the world in unexpected ways.

Part of the Communist Manifestation.

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Olympic Bardo |

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Songs for Žižek

Taking as its inspiration Slavoj Žižek’s October 9, 2011 speech at Zuccotti Park in New York and the “people’s mic” whcih broadcasted it to those who were at Occupy Wall Street’s open forum, Songs for Žižek imagines his words as a spell attempting to lift a curse. Equal parts score, instructional, concrete poetry and participatory artwork, it is also an easily reproducible and distributable text which can be printed, posted and plastered where ever it is needed.

Part of the Communist Manifestation.

Song for Žižek #1 | Song for Žižek #2 | Song for Žižek #3

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The STAG (The Strathcona Art Gallery)

The Strathcona Art Gallery (STAG) is a Project Space, Gallery and Residency in the Vancouver, BC home of Aja Rose Bond & Gabriel Saloman. As an experimental Micro-Gallery, The STAG is devoted to informality, community, social activity and big ideas in small places.

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STAG |

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Fellow Travelers (with Red76)

Red76 will be participating in Manifesta 8 in the Region of Murcia, Spain, as part of ACAF’s curatorial contribution. Fellow Travelers explores the intersection of Solidarity and Indecipherability, looking at the politics of translation, inter-cultural exchange, and the artist’s role in the socio-political dynamic of biennials. Various friends and peers will be traveling to Murcia throughout Manifesta 8 to meet with kindred persons from the region, exchange conversations and a unique artist book, and to document their experience. Red76  also took part in ACAF’s Backbench symposium which took place in Murcia during June 2010, the documentation of which will be transformed into a major installation by Ergin Cavusoglu. As a response to Manifesta, Saloman has written an essay entitled “Only 1017 Days Left, Give or Take” to be published as part of Fellow Travelers, in print and on the web.

Links:

Fellow Travelers | Manifesta 8 | Backbench | 1017 Days Left, Give or Take |

 

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SURPLUS SEMINAR #2 (with Red76)

 

Red76 were invited to be artists-in-residence at The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN during July and August of 2010. As part of the WAC’s Open Field initiative, Red76 reprised its Surplus Seminar including the Anywhere/Anyplace Academy, Pop-Up Book Academy, The YouTube School for Social Politics and introducing the House Show as School House. Surplus Seminar #2 furthers Red76′s inquiry into non-hierarchical and experimental pedagogy.

 

 

Links:

Open Field | A/AA | Pop-up Book Academy | YTSSP | House Show as School House

 

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