Knowing Everything Turns Out To Be Slightly Boring placard
- RBSC-ARC-1643-167-02
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- August 2011
12 有数字对象的结果 显示有数字对象的结果
Knowing Everything Turns Out To Be Slightly Boring placard
That Sickening Feeling When You Realize You've Lost Your Cell Phone Will Soon Be Permanent placard
A Fully Linked World No Longer Needs A Middle Class placard
You Know The Future Is Really Happening When You Start Feeling Scared placard
Lives Are No Longer Feeling Like Stories placard
Slogans for the Early Twenty-first Century placards
Series contains 12 artist’s proof placards of Coupland’s Slogans for the Twenty-First Century. Six sets of the slogans were created in early 2011, two of which are artist’s proofs.
The content of the slogans was developed to be featured on the Waldorf Hotel’s marquee in Vancouver as advertisement for the Coupland-McLuhan-YouTube event that occurred on May 26, 2011. Hosted by Douglas Coupland, the event consisted of an interactive presentation on Marshall McLuhan and YouTube. Posters were created out of the placard sets and wheat pasted throughout Vancouver.
Series contains 86 collages created during Coupland’s book tours from the 1990s to 2009. Collages were created in order to include a visual dimension to Coupland’s daily tour diary entries that were published to his website. Upon creation the collages were mailed to Vancouver, BC were they were then scanned and posted to Coupland’s blog with the accompanying 400-500 word entry.
Coupland describes the collages as embodying both high-tech and low-tech aspects of the early 2000s due to the nature of their creation, transportation and dissemination.
Subsequent exhibition of the collages featured floating the pieces in vitrines (glass paneled-display cabinets) with a ½ inch neutral background while nearby computers displayed the corresponding diary entries. Graphic moments from the collages were made into limited prints and sold at the show venues.