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Dave Dyment: Pop Quiz

Ongoing

11 January 2019 - 20 February 2019

Details

Start:
11 January 2019
End:
20 February 2019

Works by

Dave Dyment

Curated by

Lucy MacDonald

Dave Dyment: Pop Quiz

About this exhibition

Pop Quiz is a collection of every question posed in the lyrics of every song in the artist’s music collection.

Originally intended as a bookwork, the piece first existed as a looped video. Each time the work is exhibited it is updated to include new questions from more recent additions to the collection. At first just twelve minutes, the video is now almost four hours long.

Pop Quiz will be presented in a near continuous loop, activating the gallery’s picture window and projecting outward onto campus from dusk to dawn. The work will be on view in the gallery during daylight opening hours along with the bookwork version published in 2010.

In conjunction with his exhibition at the Owens, Dyment presented a special online project titled On This Day as a “takeover” of the Owens’ social media accounts (@OwensArtGallery). This project inaugurates a new initiative that approaches social media channels and online spaces as venues for the presentation of new work.

About the Artist

Dave Dyment is a Toronto-based artist whose practice includes audio, video, photography, performance, writing and curating, and the production of artist’s books and multiples. His work mines pop culture for shared associations and alternate meanings, investigating the language and grammar of music, cinema, television and literature, in order to arrive at a kind a folk taxonomy of a shared popular vocabulary. Recent projects include ’Ere Long Done Do Does Did, a bookwork compiling source material for Smiths songs, and a remake of Night of the Living Dead using footage of the horror classic being watched in other films.

Dyment’s work has been exhibited across the country and sits in many private and corporate collections, and in the libraries of the AGO, the National Gallery of Canada, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Examples of his work can be seen at www.dave-dyment.com, or heard on the YYZ Anthology Aural Cultures and the Art Metropole disk New Life After Fire, a collaboration with Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. He is represented by MKG127.

Image gallery

Dave Dyment on Pop Quiz

Visiting Artist Talk with Dave Dyment

Catalogue

Foreword by Emily Falvey
Curatorial statement from Lucy MacDonald
Interview between Geordie Miller and Dave Dyment

Design by Robert Tombs
Published by Owens Art Gallery

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Visual Descriptions