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Call for Submission

(photo Michael McCormack)

The below text was included in a zine called “Preposterous Portability,” put together by Hannah Jickling and Helen Reed’s class at the School Of Visual Art (SOVA) in Dawson City, Yukon, in dialogue with the “Readymade Institution” class instructed by Michael McCormack and Michael Eddy at NSCAD University.  Hannah and Helen’s class collected the contributions that addressed the theme of portable and alternative gallery space (as did our course), and assembled them into printed form with a limited run, including screen-printed covers, in February 2021.

 

published April 14th, 2021

Sound Research of China

(2010)

The audio drama “Sound Research of China” (Michael EDDY, KANG He, 李增辉 LI Zenghui) is composed of episodes from research into the makeup of the sound environment of Beijing. The process consisted of many outings as a group into the streets of Beijing and following and questioning the sounds that we identified as “characteristic” of life in China, and of the relation of sound to life there. Working as a unit of three “specialists,” each of our backgrounds informing our manner of recording, analyzing and editing the source materials, we pursued the sounds in various ways to see how they might compose their own narrative and drama.

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“Sound Research of China” was a component of Vitamin Creative Space‘s participation and resulting in the installation in the “Structural Integrity” project in Melbourne’s Meat Market for the Next Wave festival.

Knowles Eddy Knowles’ sculpture “the Holding Environment, v. 2” hosting the audio series “Sound Research of China” as well as a video by Chinese artist Zhou Tao, within the Vitamin Creative Space exhibit in the Next Wave Festival.

Sound Research of China episodes

Park:

Calling:

Dongfanghong #1:

Dongfanghong #2:

Music:

 

published March 13th, 2021

Credos 3

The third edition of Credos took place on August 29th, 2020 as part of Art in the Open in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and supported by Verticale. It featured the work of Lea Cetera, Michael Eddy, Cliff Eyland, Michael Fernandes & Craig Leonard, Mina Hedayat, Asako Iwama & Derrick Wang and Sean Lynch.

 

Credos is an ongoing exploration into the spiritual searching that emerges through artistic practices. It began as a series of tabletop presentations of art works and discussions in church bazaars in Laval, Quebec. The invited participants are artists and writers whose work has engaged with belief in various ways, many of whom have dealt with their own personal experiences of organized religions, without staging a rejection or a celebration. Rather, there is a translation process involved.

 

See more about Credos here.

 

This edition also featured Credos Radio, an accompanying live 8-hour radio program, playing on a speaker as part of the installation in the plaza next to the Confederation Centre, as well as streaming online.
Access the recording here: https://www.mixcloud.com/Credos/

 

Or stream below:

 

 

photos by Elizabeth Wendt.

published September 30th, 2020

Conceptual Youth Hostel, the text

This text, realized for the second issue of HomeShop’s Wear journal (2010), was the culmination of a series of zines I had produced in printshops around central Beijing in 2009. The approach was similar to those zines, where most of the images were found on the print shop’s hard drives or made with their software, sometimes with the help of the clerks, and assembled in one night and printed in the early hours. For this text, however, I saved my work on the computers of a specific print shop, returning there consistently over several visits. Through this text I was attempting to describe an imaginary place called “the conceptual youth hostel,” where the conversion of experiences into fixed values was suspended.

See the PDF here: Conceptual-Youth Hostel_2010_Michael-Eddy

(Cleaning out data, I recently came across another trace of this project that couldn’t be included in the printed publication, which was that in the danwei housing compound in the Tuanjiehu (团结湖, literally “Solidarity Lake”) neighbourhood of Beijing where I lived, I had posted the pages on the local notice board.)



published June 13th, 2020

 

Wendel’s Institution: the live podcast

“Wendel’s Institution: the live podcast” is the storytelling performance recounting the 10-year process of collaborative writing between Michael Eddy and his uncle Alex Kreger, which was called “Wendel’s Institution.”

The live podcast streamed on April 30th, 2020.

Watch or listen to the archived stream here:
Wendel’s Institution: the live podcast

The performance was realized within the frame of Michael Eddy’s exhibition “Je suis,” at Fonderie Darling.
More information about the performance is available here: https://fonderiedarling.org/en/Wendels-Institution-The-Podcast.html

published May 9th, 2020