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Geoffrey Farmer

Exhibition

Universal Picture: Geoffrey Farmer, Ron Terada, Myfanwy Macleod as part of the Melbourne International Biennale: Signs of Life

Presented as part of the 1999 Melbourne International Biennial: Signs of Life this selection of contemporary Canadian art was made by Vancouver curator Kitty Scott and included artists who shared a conceptual interest in mass culture and irreverent humour.
Guest curated by Kitty Scott
PublicationUniversal Pictures information sheetQuick Responses: 9 Commentaries on the 1999 Melbourne International Biennale
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International Biennale, installation view, 1999. Courtesy ACCA ArchiveMany will remember seeing Geoffrey Farmer’s intricate and beguiling installation (Leaves of Grass, 2012) at the last documenta13. A long table of puppet-like figures cut from...
Publication

Universal Picture: Geoffrey Farmer, Ron Terada, Myfanwy Macleod as part of the Melbourne International Biennale: Signs of Life

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Glimpse into the archive—

The artist stood before two piles of white paper arranged side by side on a table. As Robert Douglas’s radiophonic tape composition Alpha Solstice began to be heard, Lewis began to scribble on the top sheet of the left-hand pile…

Ruark Lewis: Transcription Drawings 1988-1992 (1992)

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