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Image credit: Lloyd Wong Unfinished, by Lesley Loski Chan (2025)
Hiccup #1 (Toronto) - 200030 day public performance/intervention7-channel video installation: 15 minutes each, silentCommissioned by Public for the exhibition Being on Time at Central Tech. Toronto, 2000Video credit: Marc PiccinatoThis 7-channel video entitled Hiccup is based on a 30 day performance that took place daily… ⊕
A cat is presented with a sequence of everyday items to sniff.Single-channel videoEdition of 10Exhibition History:1999 Zsa Zsa Gallery (Toronto ON); 1999 Art Gallery of Hamilton -Photophobia Film Festival (Hamilton ON); 1999 Art Chicago 99 (Chicago IL); 1999 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery (Halifax NS); 2000 Platform… ⊕
A staring competition with a video camera lasting until my eyes began to dialate and I could no longer focus.Collection of Justina M Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of TorontoJessica Wyman: "Performing Generations" Lola #4, PP 54-55. Summer 1999Exhibition History:1997 Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto ON); 1999… ⊕
2021, 04:13 minutes, colour
tapecode 2173.01
Soapbox Construction: 101 was filmed in the Mile End neighborhood of Montréal in summer 2021. Holly Timpener and Tess Martens worked in a garage and rummaged through the alley to find materials to build a soapbox to eventually race. Presented at the Lots of Love Festival in Montreal, Martens and Timpener challenged and… ⊕
2024, 10:04 minutes, colour
tapecode 698.04
Via augmented reality, Google’s ready-made 3D animals, once promoted as the “perfect quarantine activity,” are juxtaposed with hand-drawn depictions of holes in the Earth. Animals stand tentatively at the edge, tread water in, or seem trapped within these crevasses. Some of these holes are moulins —… ⊕