Ryan Ferko
Graduate Gallery, OCAD University, Toronto, April 2014
Delinquent History, sees three site-specific projects temporarily
residing together in the same space of the gallery. As site-specific works, they are
all generated from a deep relationship to a common site – The Leslie Street Spit –
but each exists in a different orientation to it. “Watson, come here I want to see you!”
uses the site as a venue for the dislocation of the first phone conversation, which is
then relocated into a video installation. The Outer Harbour East Headland Phone
Company is on its way from the gallery to become a permanent part of the site –
an intervention with a site-specific future. A Monument in Transition, inversely, is
rendered from the material of the site, and is now dislocated permanently from it
– a monument with a site-specific past.
Delinquent History, exhibition documentation, 2014
Images 1-4: A Monument in Transition
Image 5: Delinquent History for the Leslie Street Spit
Images 6-8: The Outer Harbour East Headland Phone Company
Images 9-10: “Watson, come here, I want to see you!”
“Watson, come here, I want to see you,” 4-channel video installation, from Delinquent History, 2014
ADDITIONAL INFO
- “A Monument in Transition,” included in Showroom, curated by Sarah Robayo Sheridan, Art Museum at University of Toronto, January 21–March 5, 2016: https://artmuseum.utoronto.ca/exhibition/showroom/
- “Delinquent History for the Leslie Street Spit” presented at This is Paradise: Art & Artists in Toronto conference, Jessica M. Barnicke Gallery / University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada: https://artmuseum.utoronto.ca/program/paradise-art-artists-toronto/
- “Delinquent History (For the Leslie Street Spit)” in Interventions Journal, Columbia University, New York, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2014: https://web.archive.org/web/20151018101126/http://interventionsjournal.net/2014/07/03/artist-project-delinquent-history/
- Delinquent History, MFA solo thesis exhibition, Graduate Gallery, OCAD University, Toronto, April 2014