Beastly Love

What is beastly love, you ask?
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Taxidermy and Art
Beaty Biodiversity Museum

The Beaty Biodiversity Museum at the University of British Columbia is a newly open research centre and museum focusing on all thing natural and all things naturally diverse.
Read more about the museum here +

Ravishing Beasts Exhibition
THE BREATHLESS ZOO IS COMING!

My book The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing is due out in July. Check it out here: http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-05372-1.html

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Tuesday
May122009

Moose Turnstile

DateTuesday, May 12, 2009 at 04:24PM | CommentPost a Comment | |

Old news but still good news...

In January 2006, BGL - the collective name of artists Jasmin Bilodeau, Sébastien Giguère and Nicolas Laverdière - presented the installationSe la jouer commercial (esthétique de présentation) at Montreal’s Art Mûr gallery.

Part commentary on consumer culture, part nod towards funfair extravaganza, visitors were required to enter the gallery through a turnstile. But no ordinary metal bar turnstile.  Hardly.  Nothing so drearily-trite as that.  This was a full bodied, real stuffed moose turnstile.  Visitors were required to grab whatever moose-part was closest and push the moose around.  

Read more here +
http://www.hour.ca/visualarts/visualarts.aspx?iIDArticle=8220

And also more about BGL in a Canadian Art article from 2006 here +
ttp://www.canadianart.ca/art/features/2006/09/01/through-the-looking-glass/

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