Best bad joke award goes to Kevin Radigan. The third year OCAD sculpture student proved that just one person can create massive change...(heh). His installation of giant arrow and nickels is a welcome intervention on the AGO's "Massive Change" signage (which I already complained about here). While I was down there today taking pictures, passersby were laughing and stopping to chat. Lots of media interest too, and apparently the AGO are talking about making the installation permanent. I guess everyone is getting pretty sick of that big friggin sign!
Howdy!
Please let me know if the AGO does make it permanent. While I'm not certain if you'd want the sign and the giant nickels 24/7, it's nice to see that they at least seem to understand things.
May kevin's reign of infamy commence ;)
Here's the bit I wrote for print media (which didn't get used):
Big Nickels Make Massive Change
Kevin Radigan has proven that one individual can create massive change. Literally. Under cover of darkness early Friday morning he made a clandestine ambush on the facade at the Art Gallery of Ontario, scattering giant nickels on the ground beneath the signage for Bruce Mau's Massive Change exhibition. He also affixed a huge white arrow beneath the lettering, co-opting the phrase as punch line for his own sassy art pun. The timing is good. People are tiring of Bruce Mau's portentous (some might say oppressive) street presence, and the massively ambitious exhibition has fallen short of expectations. The public are ready to poke fun. Curly, a busker who plays bagpipes on the corner at Yonge and Dundas, is a case in point. Passing by, he pauses amidst the giant coinage to heap some praise on Kevin. "You did this? I just gotta tell you it's brilliant! As a busker, I know how to appreciate massive change. I wasn't that impressed with the display inside. That was more like long slow change. But, this is massive change. The sign makes sense now." Kevin, who is a third year student at the Ontario College of Art and Design, wasn't that keen on the exhibition either. "Bruce Mau makes some huge assumptions. There is good stuff in there about new energies and ecology, but a lot of it is old news, the kind of thing that's been published in National Geographicover the past few years." Even the Art Gallery of Ontario seems ready to welcome this fresh take on Massive Change, and plans are in the works to fix Kevin's illicit coinage permanently to the gallery facade.
way to go Kevin Radigan!!!!! Best 25cent chuckle I've had in a while......
Nice work my rowdiest of friends!
All right Kev! This is severely awesome.
Woo! Wicked awsome job. :D
really they should bring over the big nickel from Sudbury
yup. Although I think Sudbury might get mad if Toronto took their landmark.
The machine strikes again!
I am fine with this.
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Best bad joke award goes to Kevin Radigan. The third year OCAD sculpture student proved that just one person can create massive change...(heh). His installation of giant arrow and nickels is a welcome intervention on the AGO's "Massive Change" signage (which I already complained about here). While I was down there today taking pictures, passersby were laughing and stopping to chat. Lots of media interest too, and apparently the AGO are talking about making the installation permanent. I guess everyone is getting pretty sick of that big friggin sign!
- sally mckay 4-15-2005 10:47 pm
Howdy!
Please let me know if the AGO does make it permanent. While I'm not certain if you'd want the sign and the giant nickels 24/7, it's nice to see that they at least seem to understand things.
- Zeke 4-17-2005 5:40 am
May kevin's reign of infamy commence ;)
- Go kev! (guest) 4-17-2005 8:03 pm
Here's the bit I wrote for print media (which didn't get used):
Big Nickels Make Massive Change
Kevin Radigan has proven that one individual can create massive change. Literally. Under cover of darkness early Friday morning he made a clandestine ambush on the facade at the Art Gallery of Ontario, scattering giant nickels on the ground beneath the signage for Bruce Mau's Massive Change exhibition. He also affixed a huge white arrow beneath the lettering, co-opting the phrase as punch line for his own sassy art pun. The timing is good. People are tiring of Bruce Mau's portentous (some might say oppressive) street presence, and the massively ambitious exhibition has fallen short of expectations. The public are ready to poke fun. Curly, a busker who plays bagpipes on the corner at Yonge and Dundas, is a case in point. Passing by, he pauses amidst the giant coinage to heap some praise on Kevin. "You did this? I just gotta tell you it's brilliant! As a busker, I know how to appreciate massive change. I wasn't that impressed with the display inside. That was more like long slow change. But, this is massive change. The sign makes sense now." Kevin, who is a third year student at the Ontario College of Art and Design, wasn't that keen on the exhibition either. "Bruce Mau makes some huge assumptions. There is good stuff in there about new energies and ecology, but a lot of it is old news, the kind of thing that's been published in National Geographicover the past few years." Even the Art Gallery of Ontario seems ready to welcome this fresh take on Massive Change, and plans are in the works to fix Kevin's illicit coinage permanently to the gallery facade.
- sally mckay 4-17-2005 8:12 pm
way to go Kevin Radigan!!!!! Best 25cent chuckle I've had in a while......
- anonymous (guest) 4-18-2005 12:51 am
Nice work my rowdiest of friends!
- j (guest) 4-18-2005 9:11 am
All right Kev! This is severely awesome.
- Caitlin (guest) 4-18-2005 11:24 pm
Woo! Wicked awsome job. :D
- Megs (guest) 4-19-2005 12:43 am
really they should bring over the big nickel from Sudbury
- sandy (guest) 4-21-2005 12:53 am
yup. Although I think Sudbury might get mad if Toronto took their landmark.
- sally mckay 4-21-2005 1:24 am
The machine strikes again!
- lexx (guest) 4-21-2005 11:20 am
I am fine with this.
- cHRIS (guest) 5-02-2005 10:45 pm