We heard an anecdote of an important curator mounting the stage while talking on their mobile telephone, timing the termination of the conversation at the exact moment when they reached the podium, flipping the telephone closed and immediately addressing the microphone.
Sculpture and performance
Shown as part of I Will Not Throw Rocks, Form Content, London, UK (2007)
This piece can only be described in an informal setting.
Sculpture with fig tree, digital print, various root vegetables and acrylic paint
Public Improvisations: End of course exhibition – XIV Advanced Course in Visual Arts, Via Farini, Milan, Italy (2008)
The wintry fig tree bursts through a sheet of paper with photos telling the true story about an Italian immigrant in Canada who buries his fig tree every year so that it survives the winter. The story had been printed with potatoes, yams and other root vegetables that now cover the branches, like a zombie tree.
Installation with auto-rotating 35 mm projector with 80 slides, audio track, textiles, perfume.
Exhibited at Corso Aperto, Fondazione Antonia Ratti, Advanced Course in Visual Arts XIV, Como, Italy (2008).
“Che città è questa?”
The Holding Environment v. 4
Mons, Belgium
2015
This version was produced for the exhibition Ailleurs en Folie, a program of Mons European Cultural Capital 2015.
The video, titled Agora, was also screened in the series Stranded at Schwimmen Zwei Vögel at mumok in Vienna, Austria in 2016.
Sculpture with pedestal, oyster mushroom grow kit, laptop, video (2012)
Shown in Dabao / Takeout, a touring exhibition to Varley Art Gallery (Markham, ON), Mississauga Gallery of Art (Mississauga, ON), Plug In ICA (Winnipeg, MB), Surrey Art Gallery (Surrey, BC).
A laptop is re-modeled into a controlled growing environment. The computer is used to host a file, and the heat generated by the computer is captured and channeled into a chamber in which spores are kept at the optimum temperatures for growth and fruit production. In this case, oyster mushrooms grew over the course of the exhibition. This piece is a functioning prototype for a computer processor-heated fungus farm, as further research into the “holding environment,” a space that foregrounds support and potentiality of a group/crop/batch or set.
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4/4/05
Established in 2004, Knowles Eddy Knowles are a collaborative trio, based in Kitakyushu Japan, London, England, and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia Canada respectively. Recently, K.E.K. participated in the Banff Centre Thematic Residency ‘Informal Architectures’, and will be included in a upcoming exhibition at West Space, Melbourne Australia for the summer 2005.
23/6/05
Knowles Eddy Knowles, founded in (early) 2004, wishes to use every
opportunity they can to work collaboratively with materials. Mutual
construction, found materials and locality (seem to be) are the focus
of their affections.
28/9/05
Knowles Eddy Knowles began working together in Halifax, N.S. during
the Winter of 2004. Individually, we have exhibited in locations
including Halifax, Toronto, San Francisco, Manchester (UK), London
(UK), Kitakyushu (Japan) and Frankfurt (Germany). Last year we were
invited to participate in a major international residency and
conference at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta.
18/11/05
Knowles Eddy Knowles was established in early 2004 on the basis of the
members’ mutual interest in architecture, collaboration and found
situations. In September of 2004 we participated in the ‘Informal
Architecture’ Thematic Residency at the Banff Centre in Alberta. Since
then, we have been working mainly in the form of proposals and works
in correspondence, always with the parallel intention make work
together with materials, in person. We are currently based in
Manchester, Frankfurt and Montreal.
22/02/06
Knowles Eddy Knowles was formed in Winter of 2004 when each of its
members, Robert Knowles, Michael Eddy and Jon Knowles, were studying
together at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova
Scotia.
8/8/07
Knowles Eddy Knowles began working together in sculptural,
performative and quasi-architectural modes while studying together at
the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, N.S. during the
Winter of 2004.
19/2/08
Knowles Eddy Knowles formed in 2004. Our work has continually investigated the rudiments of collaboration with awareness to the dynamic forces of space, context, and the serendipity of chance circumstance and unforeseen contingencies. We make productive what most would deem a digression. Since meeting in Halifax Nova Scotia, all three members have dispersed to different locales (Jon Knowles to Montréal, Canada, Michael Eddy to Frankfurt, Germany, Robert Knowles to London, England), working remotely, and also coming together physically to engage research, commissions, residencies and exhibitions in Rotterdam, Frankfurt, London, Vancouver, New York City, Montreal and Banff.
25/3/08
Knowles Eddy Knowles formed in 2004 when all three of our members were studying together at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design(Halifax). Our work has continually investigated the rudiments of collaboration with awareness to the dynamic forces of space, context, and the serendipity of chance circumstance and unforeseen contingencies. We make productive what many would deem a digression.
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