Endnotes
1 Daniel Baird is an American writer living in Toronto. This quote is from an article titled “Aristotle Got It” page 69, The Walrus Magazine, October 2012. The article explores issues of funding surrounding contemporary art.
2 Ihor Holubizky, in his 2006 curatorial project titled “Radical Regionalism: Local Knowledge and Making Places” explores the local, as researched by artists whose sense of place informs their creative practice that is juxtaposed with the binary of regionalism and globalism.
3 The Faculty for this 2012 Winter Thematic Residency was Abbey Shaine Dubin, with her guest speakers Theaster Gates, Christopher P. Heuer and Matthew Jesse Jackson.
4 Dr. Sarah Thornton has a BA in art historian and a PhD in sociology. Dr. Thornton published “Seven Days in the Art World” in 2008. It is an articulate and informed account of the upper echelons of the art world from auction houses to the Turner Prize.
5 Ken Lum is a Canadian artist with an international exhibition record. He writes for many publications and organizes many biennials. “Something’s Missing” was published in Canadian Art, Winter 2006, Volume 23, Number 4, p.54.
6 I attended a Curator’s talk at the Vernon Public Art Gallery where the curator Lubos Culen gave a gallery tour of the current exhibitions in May 2012.
7 Boris Groys, in his book “Art Power” published in 2008, explores how the art commodity intersects with global politics, and as such, continues to be a tool of political propaganda.
8 Conversation with Nora Curiston in Grand Forks August 26, 2012.
9 Jacques Rancière, in his book “The Emancipated Spectator” published in 2009, discusses the ideas surrounding the politics of perception, and how these ideas can inform the viewer to become an active participant in the work.
10 Thomas McEvilley, in his book “The Triumph of Anti-Art Performance and Conceptual Art, in the formation of Post Modernism, published in 2005 discusses how Duchamp and his thinking underwent a radical shift when encountering the ideas of Pyrrhon Ofelis (365-275 BCE) who became interested in “The Law of the Excluded Middle” a principal of Aristotelian logic. Pyrrhon stated that there was a space, an excluded middle, which occupied the place between opposing thoughts, a place where it was neither one nor the other, for example, a space between yes and no.
11 Kenneth Goldsmith examines methods of “found language” from the Internet and the Digital Age that allow us to rethink concerns of creativity and authorship.
12 Rancière discusses the binary relationship expected of the viewer. The viewer must be allowed to have some distance, and at other times he must participate directly. The viewer is expected to refine his gaze, and at other times be expected to have no position at all regarding a work or idea.
13 Herbert Marcuse was a German philosopher, sociologist and political theorist. He was concerned with the de-humanizing effects of consumer capitalism and modern technologies.
14 Conversation with the artist in Grand Forks on August 26, 2012.
15 Conversation with the artist in Grand Forks, BC, August 26, 2012.
16 Conversation with the artist in Kelowna, August 25, 2013.
17 Conversation with the artist in Kelowna, August 25, 2013.
18 Conversation with the artist in Kelowna, August 25, 2013.
19 Conversation with the artist in Kelowna, August 25, 2013.
20 Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) was Russian theorist whose ideas regarding literature, language and culture became highly influential in Western schools of thought.
21 Conversation with the artist in Kelowna, August 25, 2013.
22 Tors Nørretranders is a Danish scientist and mathematician who writes about realizing our human potential through our contemplation and execution of our compassion.
23 Tors Nørretranders book titled “The User Illusion” published by Viking in 1998 investigates aspects of the Margulis’ theory of evolution through endosymbiosis that states each me is made up of other me’s.
24 Conversation with the artist in Kelowna, August 25, 2013.
25 The book “Printmaking: History and Process” states that with the development of papermaking in China circa 105 AD, new opportunities to create text and images became available
26 Conversation with the artist in Kelowna on October 2, 2012.
27 Conversation with the artist in Kelowna on October 2, 2012.
28 Judith Butler, in her 2005 work “Giving an Account of Oneself” discusses issues of identity that gives us language that adds to our understanding of the things that make us human.
29 Conversation with the artist in Kelowna, August 25, 2013.
30 Conversation with the artist in Kelowna, August 25, 2013.
31 An email conversation with Widmer August 27, 2013.
1 Daniel Baird is an American writer living in Toronto. This quote is from an article titled “Aristotle Got It” page 69, The Walrus Magazine, October 2012. The article explores issues of funding surrounding contemporary art.
2 Ihor Holubizky, in his 2006 curatorial project titled “Radical Regionalism: Local Knowledge and Making Places” explores the local, as researched by artists whose sense of place informs their creative practice that is juxtaposed with the binary of regionalism and globalism.
3 The Faculty for this 2012 Winter Thematic Residency was Abbey Shaine Dubin, with her guest speakers Theaster Gates, Christopher P. Heuer and Matthew Jesse Jackson.
4 Dr. Sarah Thornton has a BA in art historian and a PhD in sociology. Dr. Thornton published “Seven Days in the Art World” in 2008. It is an articulate and informed account of the upper echelons of the art world from auction houses to the Turner Prize.
5 Ken Lum is a Canadian artist with an international exhibition record. He writes for many publications and organizes many biennials. “Something’s Missing” was published in Canadian Art, Winter 2006, Volume 23, Number 4, p.54.
6 I attended a Curator’s talk at the Vernon Public Art Gallery where the curator Lubos Culen gave a gallery tour of the current exhibitions in May 2012.
7 Boris Groys, in his book “Art Power” published in 2008, explores how the art commodity intersects with global politics, and as such, continues to be a tool of political propaganda.
8 Conversation with Nora Curiston in Grand Forks August 26, 2012.
9 Jacques Rancière, in his book “The Emancipated Spectator” published in 2009, discusses the ideas surrounding the politics of perception, and how these ideas can inform the viewer to become an active participant in the work.
10 Thomas McEvilley, in his book “The Triumph of Anti-Art Performance and Conceptual Art, in the formation of Post Modernism, published in 2005 discusses how Duchamp and his thinking underwent a radical shift when encountering the ideas of Pyrrhon Ofelis (365-275 BCE) who became interested in “The Law of the Excluded Middle” a principal of Aristotelian logic. Pyrrhon stated that there was a space, an excluded middle, which occupied the place between opposing thoughts, a place where it was neither one nor the other, for example, a space between yes and no.
11 Kenneth Goldsmith examines methods of “found language” from the Internet and the Digital Age that allow us to rethink concerns of creativity and authorship.
12 Rancière discusses the binary relationship expected of the viewer. The viewer must be allowed to have some distance, and at other times he must participate directly. The viewer is expected to refine his gaze, and at other times be expected to have no position at all regarding a work or idea.
13 Herbert Marcuse was a German philosopher, sociologist and political theorist. He was concerned with the de-humanizing effects of consumer capitalism and modern technologies.
14 Conversation with the artist in Grand Forks on August 26, 2012.
15 Conversation with the artist in Grand Forks, BC, August 26, 2012.
16 Conversation with the artist in Kelowna, August 25, 2013.
17 Conversation with the artist in Kelowna, August 25, 2013.
18 Conversation with the artist in Kelowna, August 25, 2013.
19 Conversation with the artist in Kelowna, August 25, 2013.
20 Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) was Russian theorist whose ideas regarding literature, language and culture became highly influential in Western schools of thought.
21 Conversation with the artist in Kelowna, August 25, 2013.
22 Tors Nørretranders is a Danish scientist and mathematician who writes about realizing our human potential through our contemplation and execution of our compassion.
23 Tors Nørretranders book titled “The User Illusion” published by Viking in 1998 investigates aspects of the Margulis’ theory of evolution through endosymbiosis that states each me is made up of other me’s.
24 Conversation with the artist in Kelowna, August 25, 2013.
25 The book “Printmaking: History and Process” states that with the development of papermaking in China circa 105 AD, new opportunities to create text and images became available
26 Conversation with the artist in Kelowna on October 2, 2012.
27 Conversation with the artist in Kelowna on October 2, 2012.
28 Judith Butler, in her 2005 work “Giving an Account of Oneself” discusses issues of identity that gives us language that adds to our understanding of the things that make us human.
29 Conversation with the artist in Kelowna, August 25, 2013.
30 Conversation with the artist in Kelowna, August 25, 2013.
31 An email conversation with Widmer August 27, 2013.