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Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Trampoline Hall Lecture: The Statue of Liberty


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Originally uploaded by otinocorsano.
From his Zoilus blog, Carl Wilson writes:

Highlight moment from last night's [Mon. Sept. 19, 2005] Trampoline Hall:

After lecturer Otino Corsano's entertainingly meandering talk on the Statue of Liberty, someone in the audience asked what one would build as the Canadian equivalent. Otino rambled a bit and came around to this answer: The Canadian Statue of the Liberty would also be the Statue of Liberty, except that it would be so small you could hold it in your hand, and everybody would have one. (I love the idea that the Canadian symbol would just be an American symbol put through a kind of scale/attitude warp - it sums up reality in this country nicely.) ... And maybe she'd be black (as is falsely rumoured to have been the original French intent, a rumour the lecturer seemed to have swallowed - although it's possible there was an abolitionist subtext to the image, the model seems to have been caucasian.) (Mind you, the statue's original colour was a dark copper-brown.)

Monday, September 12, 2005

The New is Now


LIVE AND SILENT AUCTION
Canadian Art 10th Annual Gallery Hop
Koolhaus, 132 Queens Quay East
Thursday September 15, 2005



Otino Corsano and Pete Smith
All New Here Now, 2005
Multimedia on printed poster
24" x 30"
Courtesy of Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects