July 02- July 27, 2004

Blue Republic | Waiting Room – works from future | review

> opening Friday, July 02 | 4 - 8pm

from left “Look, this is a rabbit – or is it a duck?” | “Beautiful Infections”

installation view

“Shredded Studio” m/m, 2004

installation view

on the floor "Untitled" from “Limited Activities” ready-made, garbage,2003

“Middle Eastern League: Israel vs. Palestine, 0:0” from “Limited Activities”’ diptych C-print, painted wall, contact vinyl, 2002/2004

from left “Beautiful Infections” | “Beautiful Infections” (urban) | “Uncomfortable Truth”

“Beautiful Infections” from “Alterations” ready-made, blocks 2004

“It is generally known that the unicorn is a supernatural being and a good omen. So say odes, songs, biographies of famous men and other texts of indisputable authority. Even simple village folk know that the unicorn represents something positive. But it is not a domestic animal, it is hard to find and cannot be classified. The unicorn could be taken for a horse or a bull, a wolf or a deer. In these circumstances, we could be facing a unicorn and not know what it is. We know that a certain animal with a mane is a horse and another with horns is a bull. But we don’t know what is unicorn like.

Lacking an easy key we circle blindly around our aim. What’s more, with satisfaction, we collect keys and schemes hoping to get lucky and stumble upon the right one. Most of us, though, like comfort so much that we give up any aspiration to our own individuality and accept ready-made formulas wherein it is only possible to sign on the dotted line. (As long as we have the appropriately sounding name!) A signature seals the deal. Unfortunately, the last paragraph, often barely readable, contains essential information on copyright and the responsibility for all the facts, is seldom left up to the individual. The real world then becomes a ready made text, as we sentence ourselves to the role of spectators, helpless and incompetent readers that cannot manage without being directed.”
by Blue Republic

Blue Republic is participating in Canadian and international art scene and collaborating with other art groups and centres of independent artistic research around the world such as the Cultural Services Co-op and the Bucklein Institute. As a group, artist members are practicing multi-disciplinary art, performance and new strategies of artistic practice.

Selected projects and presentations: Shop, Public Access, York University, 20 hours Minneapolis – Tokyo, Flying Gallery, Officina America, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, (with Evan Holloway, Arturo Herrera, Lari Pittman, Louis Gispert, Karen Kilimnik, Fabian Marcaccio, Jeff Ono). Fields of Dreams, Siem Riep, Cambodia, Fields of Dreams, Rio de Janeiro. Blue Republic, Espace 502, in collaboration with Galerie Rene Blouin, Montreal, Rencontres 98, Gallerie Julio Gonzalez, Paris, France, Blue Republic, Oakville Galleries, Ideas Outside Ideology, Centre of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland, Die Andere Seite, Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Germany.

“Get to the point” from “Alterations” ready-made, 2004

“Cambodia” from “Limited Activities” ready-made, 2004

"Untitled" from “Limited Activities” ready-made, garbage,2003

“Look, this is a rabbit – or is it a duck?” from “Alterations” ready-made, Marcel Duchamp, “Bicycle Wheel”, 1913

“Beautiful Infections” (urban) from “Alterations” ready-made, drawing on paper 2004