re: post-colonial setting.

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

it is week 9 of my video series promoting "A moon made of copper," and i have a book launch in my home town of Kamloops, BC.

i think hometown gigs are the toughest, because everyone is used to you and your schtick and i think take it for granted in some ways. "oh he's here, he'll be here next week," and so on. i did that once, when i was living in Austin, Texas and seeing Stevie Ray Vaughn. i was in Austin for just over a year and caught SRV in a show, but way too briefly and then he was gone. that haunts me to this day.

plus, people always want things for free at hometown gigs, hahaha, of which, i have nothing, because i can barely afford to pay attention these days. haha.

anyway, here's a no-frills video for this week, I've got to go put up posters for the reading and get some media love, which means this no make up video. hahahaha. kidding.

it's for the poem "post-colonial setting," on page 73 of my new book "A moon made of copper."

enjoy!

cheers,

chris bose.

click link here to video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfx8gtIHmmQ&list=PLrLZoyxEG0csuYFVXscOZ8mtjpQyKsjYy&index=1

and a link to buy the book here 

if you are so inclined:

http://kegedonce.com/bookstore/item/57-a-moon-made-of-copper.html

cover art by Bracken Hanuse Corlett

re: new video poem

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

here's my 8th video poem for my new book "A moon made of copper."

it's called "Snow and Slush," and is on page 92.

click on the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQZoYZvY4Dw&feature=youtu.be

published by Kegedonce Press

edited by Joanne Arnott

cover art by Bracken Hanuse Corlett

(thanks man!)

re a few close ups of the walls...

hello lovers,

a few close ups of the walls at the unit/pitt gallery in vancouver, bc. by now, all this work is long gone, sanded down and repainted by Brynn, one of the coolest gallery assistants i've ever met. 

don't ask about the art, i only know Take 5 did the cool wildstyle piece and Bracken did the cool ovoid looking alien things. not sure who did the thunderbird or ocm, but i was told it was the same person. very cool stuff.

it was really amazing to paint on the walls of an art gallery. liberating. the last few shows i've curated have been all about disrupting the played out and boring gallery rules. art should be visceral. dirty. not all clean and sterile white wall gallery standard shows. so done. so lifeless. so soulless. so lame. i'm from the streets, and the underground, and i want art to move from the confines of a canvas or a frame or a project and move along the walls and into your mind. 

street art is perfect for that in galleries, and it is here today, gone tomorrow and i love and loathe that aspect of it. it takes so much time, effort and MONEY to get good at it, and then some dumb ass toy comes along and wrecks it. or some graffiti task force jackass comes along and blands it out with monkey shit green, bored suburban house wife beige, and battleship grey......

anyways, happy monday people,

cb

OCM did this i believe.

kamloops own TAKE 5

did this, a legend in the graffiti scene

nationally even.

i think david wrote stuff on the walls.

cease wyss did this stencil

from the thunderbird restaurant. 

part of the original piece i did

fire is cleansing

it represents many things

in this piece.

bracken hanuse corlett

did the circular UFO things and 

left behind these two.

keith higgins

CEO, COO, CFO

and ruler of the Unit/Pitt domain

and you get a sense of the scope

and size of these works.

that's my kyoti throwie bomb

in front of Mt. Peter and Mt. Paul

in Kamloops, BC.

the green line represents the pulse

the heartbeat

and it got slower

as it left the land and the forest

and went into the city.

most of my work has visual metaphors

so if you  know that much

you can see that much more

in my work

i like to layer things 

and make people work for it.

i did.

until next time lovers,

cb

ps: it's nice when projects come together

my whole life people said

i'd never be where i am today.

fuck you

good thing i didn't listen. 

re: review of my latest video installation!!!

hello lovers,

it's been awhile, i've been rather busy, setting up and bring art down to vancouver, bc, for 3 exhibitions, major ones. the first is at the belkin gallery out at UBC, and was reviewed in the Georgia Straight here:

http://www.straight.com/arts/425066/witnesses-makes-palpable-impact-residential-schools

the next show is at 236 Pender, which is in Chinatown, at the Unit/Pitt gallery, and i curated this show, featuring Bracken Hanuse Corlett, Byron Steele and Nigel Zsigeti. it's called "God Save the Queen," 

and here's a photo of that show.

link is here:

http://www.helenpittgallery.org/exhibitions/current-and-upcoming/bracken-hanuse-corlett-byron-steele-nigel-z-god-save-the-queen/

and finally, the last show i'm involved with is at the Malaspina Printmakers down on Granville Island and is a group show as well, regarding truth and reconciliation. a question that looms over all of us.

and weblink here:

http://www.malaspinaprintmakers.com/

so, please do go check them out, 

as always, 

cheers,

cb

re: marvin strange......

Hello lovers,

meet marvin strange, he's in the current exhibition at Arnica Artist Run Centre and will be in the upcoming Vancouver, BC, exhibition at the unit/pitt show launching September 13, with Kast and Brack Amphibian! Come check them out! I've been working as a curator on this show for a year, so it'll kick ass!!

come say why don't ya?!

until next time lovers,

CB.

re: official denial: the art of the apology

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

you simply must go see this show. 

click on the photo for a larger version.

big thanks and hugs to everyone listed on the poster for making it happen. it's really strange when the things you dream about start to happen. it gives you faith, hope and some confidence.

cheers,

cb