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15 Minutes of Fame is an interactive installation featuring:
a bare prison bed; blanket, sheet & pillow; and a standard-issue prison suitcase containing assorted personal items . . .
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photos by: Jordan Ellis; Randolph Croft; & Cat McPherson
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Visitors are invited to:
- open the suitcase; consider, select and arrange items upon and around the bed to create a new installation - a personal artistic statement about incarceration...
- present and discuss their installation with other visitors
- write about their installation in the Book of Fame - on site and open for everyone to read.
- Other visitors are invited to write comments about
any installations in the Book of Fame.
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After creating an installation, visitors discuss their work with the audience. The ensuing discussions and exchanges were fascinating.
Visitors explained why they had chosen to place an object in a given place, what they were trying to convey, how they felt about the prison bed, what role they themselves played within the installation and how the work affected them personally.
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The original intention was that each installation remain on display for a maximum of 15 minutes. However, audience response was so enthusiastic that many participants garnered far more than 15 minutes of fame . . .
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Installations are documented through digital photos
and posted subsequently online.
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presented
Amanta Scott
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an interactive syncretic art installation
Curated by
Wayne Baerwaldt
October 4th 2008
330 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Visitor response to this work was amazing.
15 Minutes of Fame and Parallel Lines
garnered over 2400 visitors
throughout the evening.
People were lined up around the block
all night long.
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Artist's Statement:
Parallel Lines is an ongoing series of photo-based encaustic paintings exploring the lines between the actual and the possible; the inner and the outer world; imprisonment versus freedom; and choice as a defining moment in our lives.
Parallel Lines is the third project in a series of works featuring prison beds reclaimed from the former Kingston Penitentiary for Women. This rather unique opportunity arose through an art commission in which I was invited to create art utilizing waste from government buildings. Correctional Services Canada proposed I utilize discarded prison beds and I was intrigued with the challenge.
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