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SEDIMENT - January 13 – February 26, 2012
Barbara Balfour, Bill Burns, Hyang Cho, Céline Condorelli, Joel Cottrill, David Court, Dave Dyment, James Gardner, Xan Hawes, Shane Krepakevich, Tiziana La Melia, Karl Larsson, Yam Lau, Micah Lexier, Laura Marotta, Michelle McGeean, Parker Branch, Roula Partheniou, Marek Rudzinski, Stephanie Shepherd
An exhibition of books, artist books, book works and support structures, Sediment features six book-support pairs involving the efforts of two artists, one book-less support structure and four artist books, all integrated with an exhibition-scale support structure based on a written proposal.
Who Invented the Desk? - Gareth Long, Liam Gillick, Michael Gallagher, David Court.
An on-going text with the question 'Who invented the desk?' as the starting point for a discussion about the current location of work. It uses the desk as a cypher to the recent movements from studio to study; artisan to administrator. Post-studio practice, globalization, leisure, the location of production are all touched on in this ever-changing essay. New and edited versions of this text will shortly follow, with additional authors, edited and changed texts, showing the 'work-in-progress' nature of this series of books. Added in version 3 are contributions by David Court about, among other things, inaction.
CAFKA.11 - Survive.Resist, Sept 16 - Oct 2, 2011
David Court’s work for SURVIVE. RESIST. is a set of flags installed in the plaza outside of Kitchener City Hall and numerous other points throughout the city. The work consists of a simple gesture, replacing official flags with images of the sky taken from City Hall. Spreading out and taking place on the margins of sight and attention, this work sets out to effect a subtle shift in urban space, fluttering and dangling in a flux between abstraction and representation.
David Court & Josh Thorpe - AROUND YYZ
A year-long project, part of YYZ's YYZUNLIMITED programme, consisting of a series of audio tours of the built environment around YYZ. These tours are informal, meandering conversations, offering a casual but analytic inquiry, beginning at YYZ and moving out from there. Each lasts approximately an hour and can be encountered in three ways: 1) on an MP3 player borrowed from YYZ (allows the listener to walk the tour while listening), 2) over a set of speakers at the threshold to YYZ, and 3) on the YYZ website. Taking YYZ as the point of departure, the walks extend the mode of attention of the gallery into its surrounding contexts, seeking to draw attention and add complexity to the experience of public space.
Gordon Lebredt: Nonworks 1975-2008
Known for its rigorous conceptualism and ambitious materiality, the work of Gordon Lebredt is among Canada's most challenging and gratifying. Alongside Lebredt's significant record of exhibitions, publications and interventions is a parallel body of unrealized work-a sprawling hypothetical topology of surfaces, abutments, expanses and disjunctions in which words, objects and images struggle to find and mark their place.
Gordon Lebredt: Nonworks 1975-2008 collects Lebredt's unrealized proposals from a thirty-three-year period —a major retrospective of a body of work that exists only as possibility. Designed and typeset by Lebredt himself, and edited by Lin Gibson, the book contains more than 125 works presented as drawings, schematics and sketches rendered in pencil, ink, spray paint and type, as well as texts by Ian Carr-Harris, Gary Michael Dault, Lin Gibson, Andy Patton, Yvonne Lammerich and Yam Lau and a prologue by David Court and Josh Thorpe.
-Josh Thorpe + David Court