Friday, December 4, 2009

Just Looking!

"observe enthusiastically between things"

" look man appropriately"
"Jump over leisurely"
"hurry once slowly"




This is a series of images taken as part of an intervention serious that my friend Rina Liddle and I have been working on here and there for a while. It involves showing up in a high profile, heavily documented space in Vancouver, and convincing people to participate. When they agree, they select one word from each of three boxes- a verb, an adverb, and a noun, object or direction. They then have to perform the action and take a picture. We allow the participant to interpret the action any way they like, and to take a picture at any point during their performance.
The point of the piece is to disrupt the programming (anticipated and accepted behaviours) of a space, and by having people act differently in the space to have them represent the space differently.

Pictures from work with dance


This is a montage of images of people interacting with my 'choreographies' in English Bay. It was great to get so many people trying out the steps and dances! Photos by Benoit Faure. (source http://sept15attdc.blogspot.com)


This is a flyer put together for the exhibition that features someone trying out one of my dances! (source http://sept15attdc.blogspot.com)

More paintings



These are some of the more figurative images from the show.

Putting some art on the web




So I've decided it's necessary to post some of my work online, finally. This is a selection of paintings I've worked on over the last few years, and included in my show Rapt.