Another of my favourite Canadian artists is Bill Burns (earlier post). He has an unusual, oblique attitude to today's natural world. I also like that he maintains his performative stance, and stays in character at all levels of the project. Which probably means that the word "character" is wrong, even though the story is pseudo-fictional. The image above is titled Artist as a Boy, Anyhow, he has a show opening at the MOMA this weekend ... all you NYC readers, go see it! Here's the scoop:
for Immediate Release:
from Bill Burns, Director
Safety Gear for Small Animals in Safe: Design Takes On Risk at Museum of Modern Art in New York
When Safety Gear for Small Animals incorporated in 1993 our goals were twofold. Firstly, to protect animals from degraded habitats and slip shod scientific research and, secondly, to provide a decent living to our dedicated workers. Exhibiting our safety gear was never part of the plan. Be that as it may, I am surprised and delighted to have been invited to display our prototypes and models of safety, rescue and relocation equipment and supplies. Never, even in our most secret dreams, did we think that our project would be celebrated by curators and art museums all over the world. We are extremely proud to be showing twenty-four prototypes from our collection in Safe: Design Takes On Risk at The Museum of Modern Art in New York from October 16, 2005 to January 2, 2006. The exhibition of more than 300 objects is organized by Paola Antonelli, Curator, and Patricia Juncosa Vecchierini, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art.
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