Adventures on the Wheels of Steel, 2009
Installation
Plywood cabinets, bike wheels, duct tape, light sensitive oscillators
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax
An interactive project where op-art patterns created using duct tape on bike wheels generate distinct rhythm patterns as they affect light-sensitive oscillators hidden within plywood cabinets. Users can change up wheels and alter the oscillators' tones through the central control panel. Luigi Russolo meets Grand Master Flash.
Adventures on the Wheels of Steel, 2009
Installation
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax
Sunset Dub for King Tubby, 2009
Speaker cabinet, palm tree, yellow lightbulb, blue rug
DNA's Grapefruit, 2009
Newsprint with silk-screened text, grapefruit
Takeaway newsprint to recruit interested participants in figuring out the "unknown date, unknown studio in Canada" in which No Wave band DNA recorded the track Grapefruit sometime in the early 1980s.
Guitar Pieces (Jimmy Page / Robin Page), 2008
Two-channel video projection
A project based on coincidences connecting Canadian Fluxus artist Robin Page and legendary guitarist Jimmy Page through the performative destruction of guitars both in 1965.
Michael Fernandes, 2008
Rubber-stamped signature, magazine
12 x 9 inches
Edition of 40
Rubber-stamped signature of artist Michael Fernandes beside his photograph on the cover of Arts Atlantic, Spring/Summer 1991.
Gift For The Screamers, 2007
Installation
Raid Projects, Los Angeles
Handmade records for members of the LA punk band the Screamers derived from a found demo-tape in the York University Archives, which the band submitted to Crash 'N' Burn (Toronto), one of the first punk venues in Canada. The club closed before the Screamers could perform. The recordings consist of 'Peer Pressure', 'Punish or Be Damned' and 'Eva Braun'. The records were created and shown as an installation at Raid Projects (Los Angeles), August 2007.
Gift For The Screamers, 2007
Handmade records
Raid Projects, Los Angeles
Gift For The Screamers, 2007
Installation
Raid Projects, Los Angeles
Art Wicks of Badger's Quay, 2006
Video
08:50
Using his living room furniture for props, Art Wicks explains the method he used to float houses with a rope, oil drums and a winch during the resettlement of isolated outport communities in Newfoundland in the 1950-70s.
Vie et mort d'Odette Vioget, 2005
Installation
Phonograph, speaker horn, lacquer record
36 x 24 x 24 inches
An installation devoted to the fictional archive of Canadian Surrealist artist and poet Odette Vioget (1910-195?) presented at AXE NéO7 (Hull, QC), including a recorded poetry reading from 1937, documents, a bookwork and photographs.
Vie et mort d'Odette Vioget, 2005
Installation
AXE NéO7 (Hull, QC)
Vie et mort d'Odette Vioget, 2005
Installation
Poster, birth certificate, lacquer record
AXE NéO7 (Hull, QC)
Apparatus and Method, 2003
Bookwork
20.5 x 13 x 0.7 cm; 53 pp.
Edition of 50 signed copies
Very rare bilingual publication of the work of Canadian Surrealist poet and artist Odette Vioget. Includes Chronology and Social Game with introduction by R. Oelze. Translation and editorial by Craig Leonard. Originally published in 1937, reprinted in 2003.