Image Coming Soon No.1
Image Coming Soon #1 re-stages the late American composer John Cage鈥檚 groundbreaking composition for a museum, titled museumcircle (1989-1995). Informed by Marcel Duchamp鈥檚 first musical work Erratum Musicale (1913), Cage鈥檚 work entails the use of chance operations to determine the spatial composition of an array of objects borrowed from over thirty museums in the Greater Toronto area, and an assortment of rocks, plants, books, chess tables and pieces of ephemera.
Image Coming Soon #1 juxtaposes Cage鈥檚 historical project with unannounced performances of Duchamp's Erratum Musicale, to allow a contemplation of the two scores, and more specifically, the consequences of Cage鈥檚 spatial adaptation of sound composition principles. Performers of Erratum Musicale include Ido Govrin, Martin Arnold, Ryan Driver, Doug Tielli, Christine Duncan, Michael Davidson and Patrick O鈥橰eilly.
Lending institutions: Art Gallery of Ontario, Blackwood Gallery, Campbell House, City of Toronto Museums & Heritage Services (Colborne Lodge Museum, Fort York National Historic Site, Gibson House Museum, City of Toronto Historical Collection, The Market Gallery, Spadina Museum, Todmorden Mills Heritage Site, York Museum), Design Exchange, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Gardiner Museum, Gendai Gallery, Hart House Collection, Museum of Inuit Art, The Morris and Sally Justein Heritage Museum at Baycrest, Malcove Collection, Mercer Union, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, MZTV Museum of Television, Open Studio, Ontario Science Centre, Royal Ontario Museum, Ryerson Image Centre, University College Collection, University of Toronto Collection.
The exhibition includes unannounced performances of Erratum Musicale (1913) by Marcel Duchamp. Performers include Ido Govrin, Martin Arnold, Ryan Driver, Doug Tielli, Christine Duncan, Michael Davidson and Patrick O鈥橰eilly.
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Image Coming Soon #1 re-stages the late American composer John Cage鈥檚 groundbreaking composition for a museum, titled museumcircle (1989-1995). Informed by Marcel Duchamp鈥檚 first musical work Erratum Musicale (1913), Cage鈥檚 work entails the use of chance operations to determine the spatial composition of an array of objects borrowed from over thirty museums in the Greater Toronto area, and an assortment of rocks, plants, books, chess tables and pieces of ephemera.
Image Coming Soon #1 juxtaposes Cage鈥檚 historical project with unannounced performances of Duchamp's Erratum Musicale, to allow a contemplation of the two scores, and more specifically, the consequences of Cage鈥檚 spatial adaptation of sound composition principles. Performers of Erratum Musicale include Ido Govrin, Martin Arnold, Ryan Driver, Doug Tielli, Christine Duncan, Michael Davidson and Patrick O鈥橰eilly.
Lending institutions: Art Gallery of Ontario, Blackwood Gallery, Campbell House, City of Toronto Museums & Heritage Services (Colborne Lodge Museum, Fort York National Historic Site, Gibson House Museum, City of Toronto Historical Collection, The Market Gallery, Spadina Museum, Todmorden Mills Heritage Site, York Museum), Design Exchange, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Gardiner Museum, Gendai Gallery, Hart House Collection, Museum of Inuit Art, The Morris and Sally Justein Heritage Museum at Baycrest, Malcove Collection, Mercer Union, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, MZTV Museum of Television, Open Studio, Ontario Science Centre, Royal Ontario Museum, Ryerson Image Centre, University College Collection, University of Toronto Collection.
The exhibition includes unannounced performances of Erratum Musicale (1913) by Marcel Duchamp. Performers include Ido Govrin, Martin Arnold, Ryan Driver, Doug Tielli, Christine Duncan, Michael Davidson and Patrick O鈥橰eilly.
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