CRAIG LEONARD

Amusicology, 2009
Installation
Mercer Union (Toronto, ON)

A series of mini-installations, charting art/rock coincidences and convergences through sculptural inquiry, archival impulse and audio experiment. Subjects of exploration include King Tubby, DNA, Harry Partch, Jimmy Page, the Screamers and a web of others.

Bad Seeds, 2009
Wall drawing showing connections between bands and musicians
144 x 288 inches

Bad Seeds, 2009
Detail

Archive Improv, 2009
Installation
Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS

To mark Eyelevel Gallery's 35th anniversary, Archive Improv invited visitors to interact with the gallery's official archives through a basic request-based retrieval system. Each fulfilled request received a distinct space in an improvised treasury that grew over the course of the exhibition. Cabinets, cubbyholes, and hidden nooks housed modified archival documents that visitors were able to take away.

Archive Improv, 2009
Installation detail
Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS

Archive Improv, 2009
Installation
Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS

ARChives, 2006
Site-specific installation
Artcite (Windsor, ON)

From a series of interventions into the archives of artist-run centres in Ontario, including Modern Fuel (Kingston), Forest City Gallery (London), and Artcite (Windsor) with an accompanying bookwork: Artists in Artist-Run Centres, Ontario (1971-2006).

ARChives, 2006
Site-specific installation
Artcite (Windsor, ON)

Obsolete Concepts, 2004
Bookwork
Second edition of 198, 87 pages
6.5 x 4 x 0.5 inches

Collection of obsolete concepts and their definitions taken from the complete Oxford English Dictionary. First edition published 2004; second edition 2008.

Obsolete Concepts (Antiprobabilism), 2004
C-print
36 x 48 inches

From a series of prints pointing to obsolete concepts, as categorized by the Oxford English Dictionary, in the word's last known site of publication.

Gargantua is Difficult, 2004
Installation
Khyber ICA (Halifax, NS)