Weekend Chime rings on Fridays at 5:00 PM using the two notes sung for the word “weekend” in the chorus to Loverboy’s Working for the Weekend.
Large size text drawing using the lyrics from the chorus to Superchunk’s Slack Motherfucker. Presented as part of The Artist’s Studio is Her Bedroom at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. Image: SITE Photography.
Playback setup for a looped hour-long field recording done on the spiral staircase inside the Dominion Building in Vancouver at the edge of the Downtown Eastside. Presented as part of 13 Ways to Summon Ghosts at the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art. This is a redone version of the work, which was originally presented at the Western Front in 2004. Image: SITE Photography.
The “toolbox”stereos each play a looped recording of the hammering from the construction of their own stands. Presented as part of Open Sound: play.back.work at the Surrey Art Gallery.
The videos show me listening to the Beatles’ The White Album and The Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers in full, but presented without audio. Presented at part of The Sound I'm Looking For: Part 2 at the Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, and as part of The Communism of Forms: Sound + Image + Time – The Strategy of Music Video at Red Bull 381 Projects, Toronto.
I invited students from West Vancouver’s Collingwood School’s competitive debate team to publicly debate which band is better, The Beatles or The Rolling Stones. Presented as part of The Sound I'm Looking For: Part 2 at the Charles H. Scott Gallery.
The video shows two versions of me listening to Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation in full, videoed at my band’s former practice space using multiple microphones for surround sound playback. The playback volume of the album was set at a moderate level so as to allow for external sound from the site to also be recorded. Presented as part of Science Fiction 01 at the Or Gallery.
Installation image of the ceiling showing the recording and playback setup for Night Shift at the Or Gallery, Vancouver. Each night’s work painting and repainting the gallery’s walls white was recorded and layered on top of the other night’s recordings, and played back during the gallery’s normal hours. An edit of the final audio was released as an LP by the Or Gallery.
Installation image of Night Shift at the Or Gallery showing our equipment and supplies, which we organized into different sculptures at the end of each night’s painting.
Presented at 8-11, Toronto, Interim Measures was a scaled down reworking of Night Shift. We also contributed a new sign for the gallery, which said Never Let A Good Crisis Go To Waste.
Installation view of Island Developments, which juxtaposed two failed “utopian” projects: Giorgio Rosa’s Republic of Rose Island and Robert Smithson’s Island of Broken Glass. Presented at Artspeak, Vancouver.
Screenshot of one of the video components from Island Developments, featuring members of the Vancouver Children’s’ Choir performing a new hybrid anthem we composed in Esperanto. Presented at Artspeak, Vancouver.
Installation shot of Due to Injuries…, presented at 221A, Vancouver. The exhibition included a collection of works in the gallery as well as a lecture by Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi and a series responses to Berardi by Jaleh Mansoor, Enda Brophy, Cecily Nicholson, and Steve Collis. The texts from all of the talks (and more images of the exhibition) can be found on the website we produced: duetoinjuries.com.
10 RIOT SONGS is a set of riot themed punk songs performed by Kathy Slade, me, and members of Womenkind, the band I was in at the time. The performance took place at The Candahar Bar, which was a venue / installation by Theo Sims (a recreation of a Belfast public house), presented by Presentation House Gallery on Granville Island, Vancouver, during the 2010 Winter Olympics. Listen to 10 RIOT SONGS here.
12 Sun Songs is a set of cover songs about the sun, performed by Kathy Slade, me, and several musician friends. It was co-released by the Or Gallery, Vancouver, and JPR Ringier, Zurich. Listen to 12 Sun Songs here.
The Smiths Research Station was presented as part of How Soon is Now at The Vancouver Art Gallery, using a cart from the gallery’s library as our model. We also presented The Music Appreciation Society Presents: The Smiths Research Intensive, with Jeff Derksen, Lucien Durey, Candice Hopkins, Kristina Lee Podesva and David Wisdom, as a public event in support of the exhibition.
Please, leave me alone. Thank You. was created for the exhibition Some Woolly Buzz by Publication Studios, and sold in an edition of 50.
Daytripper is a set of videos originally made for a “drive thru” video screen developed by the Contemporary Art Gallery in collaboration with Rethink Advertising. Informed by tropes from Vancouver photo-conceptual artists, TV advertising, and the subcultural aesthetics of Vancouver at the time, the set of videos presented a loosely episodic “day-in-the-life” journey across various sites in Vancouver. Daytripper was also presented as part of Through a Window: Visual Art and SFU 1965-2015, in 2015 at the Audain Gallery.
Image shows two components from the exhibition The Brewer Beaver at the Fort Gallery — a version of a wooden HBC beaver sculpture that was from the former Merchant Grill restaurant and the shadow of a miniaturized version of the HBC beaver weathervane that was on the roof of the HBC location in Honolulu, which closed in 1859.