CV for Gordon Foster, BFA York 1996
Since December of 2001 Gordon Foster has been developing a living installation and interactive performance investigating cultural anomalies in South Korea and tentatively titled Where's Your Mother?
In March of 2005 he staged an intervention during the opening performance of A Suicide Site Guide to the City at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto, which was inspired by the collaborator in his work-in-progress who staged her own impromptu intervention during a Ballet Jorgen performance at the Premier Dance Theatre.
An extreme interdisciplinary artist, Gordon Foster has created a body of work that transcends disciplines, incorporating post post-modern theatre, dance, music, performance and visual art practices into his recurring interactive text-based installation sponsored by Kyungpook National University in Daegu, South Korea and entitled English 101.
During a brief stint in Toronto in the fall of 1998 he created a month-long work incorporating found-object multiples into a dissertation on consumerism entitled Stocking Shelves at Loblaws.
During a two summer residence in Poland in 1998 and 1999 Gordon Foster began incorporating more extensive language into his practice and was able to stage several conversations cycling around the theme Not Exactly Who You Think I Am. His favourite one-off remains to this day Csesc, Jestem Jez, Lubje Jablko i Borowki.
In March of 2006 he staged a one-and-a-half person protest outside the gates of an American military base, subtly taking the military-industrial complex to task for the ongoing occupation of Iraq entitled Nostalgia - Old School.
Actively participating in invigorating the cultural life of South Korea's third largest city, he has continued to perform songs of love and dismay interspersed with self-evasive comic monologues as The Suburban Cowboy and his Broken-Necked Round-the-World Guitar.
Enamored of Japan since his first visit there in February of 1998, Gordon Foster has consistently developed interventions and explorations on the islands of Kyushu and Honshu, most notably the cycle of walks in his 2002 Fukuoka exploration entitled Missing the Boat.
An avid naturalist and photographer, he has found himself concentrating increasingly on creating micro-nexes linking the natural environment, habitable space, and cyber reality. These have been accessible to several hundred million participants in the project since January of 2006.
His most recent traditional work, an intentionally unfinished acrylic, is an evocative pibroch to discarded and discredited materials, methods and subjects.
In the past month he has begun working in the film media, retracing its development from black-and white silent stills to its highest pinnacle, the music video.
In March of 2005 he staged an intervention during the opening performance of A Suicide Site Guide to the City at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto, which was inspired by the collaborator in his work-in-progress who staged her own impromptu intervention during a Ballet Jorgen performance at the Premier Dance Theatre.
An extreme interdisciplinary artist, Gordon Foster has created a body of work that transcends disciplines, incorporating post post-modern theatre, dance, music, performance and visual art practices into his recurring interactive text-based installation sponsored by Kyungpook National University in Daegu, South Korea and entitled English 101.
During a brief stint in Toronto in the fall of 1998 he created a month-long work incorporating found-object multiples into a dissertation on consumerism entitled Stocking Shelves at Loblaws.
During a two summer residence in Poland in 1998 and 1999 Gordon Foster began incorporating more extensive language into his practice and was able to stage several conversations cycling around the theme Not Exactly Who You Think I Am. His favourite one-off remains to this day Csesc, Jestem Jez, Lubje Jablko i Borowki.
In March of 2006 he staged a one-and-a-half person protest outside the gates of an American military base, subtly taking the military-industrial complex to task for the ongoing occupation of Iraq entitled Nostalgia - Old School.
Actively participating in invigorating the cultural life of South Korea's third largest city, he has continued to perform songs of love and dismay interspersed with self-evasive comic monologues as The Suburban Cowboy and his Broken-Necked Round-the-World Guitar.
Enamored of Japan since his first visit there in February of 1998, Gordon Foster has consistently developed interventions and explorations on the islands of Kyushu and Honshu, most notably the cycle of walks in his 2002 Fukuoka exploration entitled Missing the Boat.
An avid naturalist and photographer, he has found himself concentrating increasingly on creating micro-nexes linking the natural environment, habitable space, and cyber reality. These have been accessible to several hundred million participants in the project since January of 2006.
His most recent traditional work, an intentionally unfinished acrylic, is an evocative pibroch to discarded and discredited materials, methods and subjects.
In the past month he has begun working in the film media, retracing its development from black-and white silent stills to its highest pinnacle, the music video.
posted by kodeureum | 7:10 am
6 Comments:
:)LOVE it
and what's the deal with the clock on your blog? you keep it there to remind your american friends to stop calling you in the middle of the korean night?
What American friends? My Canadian friends don't even call me. They send their Christmas cards to my old address instead.
I saw the clock on BPG's blog and thought it was pretty cool. I wanted to see if I could set it up for Daegu time and it seemed to work, escept just now it read midnight while it's actually 6:15 am.
I guess I'll have to check it or chuck it.
Believe it or not, the clock just chucked itself!
And now it's back with the correct time. Bizarre.
Take a closer look and you'll notice that when it's a quarter after six the hour hand covers up the A in AM or the P in PM. What a piece of crap!
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