{"id":9914,"date":"2012-02-11T07:51:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T12:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=9914"},"modified":"2012-02-11T10:41:47","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T15:41:47","slug":"performance-at-canada-to-nite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2012\/02\/11\/performance-at-canada-to-nite\/","title":{"rendered":"~Performance at CANADA to-nite !!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GERALD FERGUSON’S – CHORAL READING . . . is being presented to-nite at CANADA
\nSAT, FEB 11, 2012 – the performance begins at 7 PM & a reception will follow.<\/p>\n

In 1972 GERALD FERGUSON scored a reading of his Standard Corpus of Present Day English Language Usage Arranged By Word Length in 20 units for a chorus of 26 voices. (seriously !!)<\/em>
\nIt was performed at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design that same year.
\n. . . Ferguson considered the ‘Corpus’ one of his most important works, once describing it as “a variable serial sculpture through time”.
\nread: the complete GALLERY NOTE <\/a><\/p>\n

this performance coincides with the current gallery showing of an on-point survey of Mr. Ferguson’s works on canvas, ‘GERALD FERGUSON. WORK. STENCIL THROUGH FROTTAGE FROM 1968’ – curated by LUKE MURPHY.
\nthe show opened on Jan 7, 2012 and runs thru Feb 19, 2012.<\/p>\n

see: PIX FROM THE GERALD FERGUSON OPENING – artloversnewyork<\/a><\/p>\n

ART FAG CITY\/PADDY JOHNSON has just posted an extensive interview with LUKE MURPHY & PHIL GRAUER regarding the show.
\nsee: GERALD FERGUSON’S BLUE COLLAR CONCEPTUALISM . . . AFC<\/a><\/p>\n

p.s<\/strong>. I really like that term, Blue Collar conceptualism<\/strong>. even though he was an academic, as in teacher (?) it still fits the bill, though it would take a better, or at least more patient scribe than I, to lay it down for ya. maybe I’ll try to get some thoughts on that – from the show’s curator, and long-time Ferguson associate and student, Luke Murphy. (check back later.)<\/p>\n

some talking points from the interview: <\/strong><\/p>\n

1. “Some people who went to school in the Maritime provinces have a special bond. The weather is extreme, the landscape rugged, the population poor and hardworking.” ~ PJ\/PADDY JOHNSON<\/p>\n

2. “Gerry [Gerald Ferguson] showed at MoMA in 1970 in The Information Show, and a lot of his contemporaries of course went on to build what is Conceptual Art .” ~ PG\/PHIL GRAUER<\/p>\n

3. “Gerry’s line – and he said it a couple of times – was really the ‘dematerialization of the Art Object’. That was really his thing, we’re going to make something impossible to buy . . . [we don’t want you to buy stuff] because all the people that are buying stuff are supporting the Vietnam War.” (!!) ~ PG<\/p>\n

4. “OCCUPY”. ~ LM\/LUKE MURPHY<\/p>\n

5. “When JOSEPH BEUYS landed in North America, he landed in Halifax.” ~ LM<\/p>\n

6. “When [Gerald Ferguson] saw [Lawrence] WEINER . . . go off to [Leo] CASTELLI, he couldn’t believe it. ‘What? You’re selling out?’ ” ~ LM<\/p>\n

7. “Lawrence Weiner has a much bigger view of the art world in some ways than Gerry.” ~ LM<\/p>\n

8. “[Gerald Ferguson] stuck to the original plan, which was making conceptual art and resisting the dominant systems.” ~ LM
\nnancy: street art – has some of the same issues.<\/em><\/p>\n

9. and that’s what he did . . “until 1990, when he said, “you know what, maybe I do like painting. I’m going to start painting again.” And that’s what he did.” ~ LM<\/p>\n

10. “He did a lot of language work . . . he did his ‘Standard Corpus’ of the English language [being performed to-nite], organized by word length (!!)I mean, what else are you going to do in your French<\/strong>village in Nova Scotia – which is really way bleak<\/strong>.” ~ LM <\/p>\n

11. “It’s funny the work doesn’t feel all of this was made yesterday . . . ” ~ LM<\/p>\n

12. “. . . like, that dot<\/strong> painting on the wall” (!!) ~ PG <\/p>\n

13. “but the paintings don’t have a good international marketplace – that’s the conundrum<\/strong>. . . ” ~ PG<\/p>\n

CANADA<\/a> – 55 CHRYSTIE \/ BTWN HESTER & CANAL – LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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