15 Minutes of Fame is an interactive sculpture installation featuring: a bare prison bed; a blanket, sheet & pillow; and a standard-issue prison suitcase containing assorted personal items. Visitors are invited to: open the suitcase, consider, select and arrange items upon and around the bed to create a new installation - a personal artistic statement about incarceration; discuss their work with other viewers (explain why they placed an object in a given place, what they were trying to convey, how they felt, what role they played within the installation and how the work affected them personally). Visitors are then encouraged to write about their installation in the Book of Fame – on site and open for others to read. Other visitors are invited to write comments about any installations in the Book of Fame. Each installation is then documented through digital photography and subsequently posted on the Web site. After fifteen minutes the installation is dismantled and returned to neutral ready for the next visitor’s interpretation. BIO /AMANTA SCOTT Critically acclaimed as 'cutting edge', 'ground breaking' and 'strikingly innovative', Toronto-based artist Amanta Scott has exhibited and performed extensively in art galleries, museums, theatres, dance, concert venues and festivals throughout Asia and North America including: National Gallery of Canada; The Canadian Embassy in Tokyo; I-lan Cultural Centre Theatre, Taiwan; Singapore International Arts Festival; Royal Ontario Museum; Edmonton Art Gallery; The Robert McLaughlin Gallery; Music Gallery; Thunder Bay Art Gallery; Art Gallery of Algoma; Art Gallery of Ontario; Art Gallery of Peterborough; and Nuit Blanche Toronto. In 1996, reacting to discipline-based isolation of the arts in western cultures, Amanta and Peter Oldham (then-Political Consul, Canadian Embassy in Tokyo) coined the term “Syncretic Art” - the fusion of disparate elements: visual arts, music, theatre and dance. Amanta actively seeks to engage the public, questioning and empowering viewers to explore diverse and sometimes contradictory interpretations of a work. Her work is about exchange, interaction and connection. |
