A text I wrote reflecting on Flotilla, the biannual artist-run centre conference that took place in Charlottetown in September 2017, to which I contributed on the curatorial committee, is finally available here: https://www.flotillaatlantic.com/michael-eddy/from-napkins-to-nappies
Aussi bien qu’une version française: https://www.flottille.ca/michael-eddy/from-napkins-to-nappies
published March 14, 2019
Drawings produced during our project TPP Museum while in residency in Sapporo Tenjinyama Artist Studios (2014). See also Interferences.
published November 9, 2018
Lijiang Studio is well known for its Mural Project, among other things, however some of the images on the walls have been weathering pretty drastically since their first application. On a recent visit we asked if we could refurbish a particularly prominent mural on the He family’s outside wall.
published May 30, 2018
22.11.2016
The cancelled course
Night night dark night university study job time purpose. Night feeling irrelevant day ice crack vague wonder work rewards wonder. Night power dreaming yawning writing vapid budget domestic patient time up. Night cold dark long apartment street lights passing relativity complaints heaven depression insufferable travel sites refugees becoming undesirable. Night reflection time quiet hum plastic sheeting workdays coughing children internet breakfast cycle clothing deadend haircut. Night artist joke no answer sorry grow up night bed stomach hungry causal relation friends comparison status uncertain practice night push it elsewhere airplane pollution creaky floor sand dune moon indifference time zone static winter night. Night try and fail waiting light waiting news late email breakfast daycare three hours exchange baby lunch night face hair bumps evacuation silence crying patience future present night tomorrow routine video. Night friends there problems death gratitude impossibility shrugs live and let live don’t push it mental sanity night sleep clenched jaw laundry pile do the easy things success message no reflection tweets no grammar friend no time night comparison. Night experience night life memory useless practice bicycle know ride trust no knowledge work it out no masterpiece no resistance aspirational night busy miserable alive dark humour no comprehension buddhists night history. Night novel night entertainment night practice incomplete close reading advice professional finish deliberate delay skill set teachable language human capital varied frozen paid hobby whale school night innovation transferable confidence name night.
published May 3, 2018
In the summer of 2017, the Readymade Institution course, led by Michael McCormack and Michael Eddy, organized an exchange project between Think School, an independent art course in Sapporo, Japan, and the Readymade Institution, NSCAD University. Each class installed the work of the other. Exhibition views from the Readymade Institution show in Public Art Research Center in Sapporo, Japan ↓
I showed a Japanese-translated version of Protest Debate.
Exhibition views from Think School show in Anna Leonowens Gallery 3 ↓
Think School exhibition announcement:
The Readymade Institution class presents Think School
Anna Leonowens Gallery 3
NSCAD University Fountain campus
August 14, 2017—August 19, 2017
Think School is a small, independently run art course organized by artists in the city of Sapporo, in Northern Japan. Their motto (in the speech bubble of their logo) is “Art school to make the city interesting.” Their classes meet once a week and feature lectures and workshops on various themes around art and culture.
For this exchange show, Think School students and teachers were given an open mandate, whose only constraints were those of transportation and translation. Students in the Readymade Institution Class at NSCAD U act as the curators of the received work, and collectively work out the arrangement and mediation of the show.
In exchange, the Readymade Institution Class is sending its work to Sapporo for an exhibition in October 2017, around the motif of instructions.
This process of caring for and interpretation of work sent from a remote context illuminates central aspects of portable and alternative galleries. Throughout our course we have discussed themes of DIY culture, institutional critique, community, variable scales, marginality, intimacy, movement and public space.
Gallery 4
Fallow Gallery
Granville Mall
NSCAD University Fountain campus
Opening August 14
Among the group exercises undertaken in this course is the occupation of the Fallow Gallery, located in the Granville Mall (inside entrance between NSCAD Fashion dept. and the Art Bar). This vending machine-cum-art gallery initiated by then-students of NSCAD U Jacob Perry and Jolee Smith offered a venue to sell art pieces after the closure of the Seeds Gallery in 2013. It had been lying dormant for several months until Jacob and Jolee offered the use of the gallery to the Readymade Institution class. This exhibition , launching the same day as the Gallery 3 show in the Anna Leonowens Gallery, is called “Gallery 4”. All the works in the machine are offered for the minimum denomination the machine will accept, a nickel. (It should also be mentioned that the Fallow Gallery is open to new management by interested NSCAD students.)
published November 28, 2017
