Installation: Use for works, beginning in the 1960s, that use their exhibition space as part of their design. Demanding a viewer's active engagement, installations are often created by artists in direct opposition to the notion of permanent artwork, or art as a commodity.
Intervention: Interaction with a pre-existing artwork, audience, site or space.
A sculpture in the shape of roofs with little bronze birds. Text is written on the glass of the dormer windows, as if someone had scribbled something with their finger on the frosty glass.
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Artwork creator(s):
Purdy, Richard
The art project consists of two parts: large pavers cut from pillars featuring text and placed at various locations throughout the park; a centre piece of large etched black stone paver slabs placed i
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Artwork creator(s):
Metz, Jacqueline; Chew, Nancy
"Right to the City" involves three elements:1) Ten resin capsules imbedded in the ground along the pathway at Nanaimo and 41st Avenue. The capsules contain paraphernalia that might be found in some
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Artwork creator(s):
Forkert, Kirsten
Three permanent installations refer to the activities of the center. The first component to be installed is FUNhouse: cast aluminum soccerballs, volleyballs and basketballs are imbedded into a concret
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Artwork creator(s):
Metz, Jacqueline; Chew, Nancy
On a façade of the Wing Sang Building in Chinatown (the oldest building in the neighborhood), we can read the words "Everything is going to be alright." The neon letters are visible from the Georgi
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Artwork creator(s):
Creed, Martin
24 plates have been moulded into the gullies that are created by ground erosion (through the movements of pedestrians). The sentences on the plates are taken from conversations with the pedestrians.
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Artwork creator(s):
Gagné, Caroline
The text consists of 7" copper letters installed above the entrance to the gallery.
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Artwork creator(s):
Walter, Kathryn
This artwork is a delicate metal bas-relief with plexiglas inserts. The white sections light up at night.
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Artwork creator(s):
Thomas, Lionel; Thomas, Patricia; Lachnit, F.
Installation and intervention ,
Sculpture ,
Permanent,
Exterior,
Park, square and garden,
Contest,
Random,
Concrete,
Glass,
Granite,
Slate
A semi-circle of shattered glass screens with etched leaves is visible from the street and lit at night. In the courtyard is a 4,500 sq. ft. leaf-shaped pool; situated around it are black granite seat
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Artwork creator(s):
Steinman, Barbara
Installation and intervention ,
Mural ,
Permanent,
Interior,
Culture,
Purchase,
Linear,
Tribute,
Aluminum,
Copper,
Glass
Abstract mural made of three circles and several geometric forms. A quote from Leonardo da Vinci appears at the top.
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Artwork creator(s):
Baxter, Brain; Olynyk, Markian
