Ryan Ferko
Delinquent History
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.