1/16/08

Jon Sasaki




Black Light Thrift Store, 2007
as part of PLAY/GROUNDS, curated by Elaine Gaito and Chris Reynolds.

A one day intervention in a Salvation Army Thrift Store in downtown Toronto. The store's regular lighting fixtures were replaced with CSI-style ultraviolet lights, which highlighted lint, spills, stains on the used garments. The gesture cast attention toward the indices of previous wearers, and proposed that these clothing items were on a 'continuum of ownership', something akin to a collective belonging.


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1/8/08

Donna Stack

Handsewn, 2003 (videostill)
12 minute video of artist sewing black threads into hand, then pulling them out, ending with line drawing to the guitar music of Joquin Rodrigo

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Tony Oursler



dum-dum, metalbreath, wadcutter, 2007




at the Metro Pictures booth, Armory Fair, 2007

Yoko Ono: No. 4, 1967