I've done this for you

Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present I’ve done this for you, a group exhibition investigating the artist/audience relationship. The works in the exhibition are propositional in nature, engaging the gallery and notions of contemporary art as sites of social interaction. Artists Artlab (Charlotte Cullinan and Jeanine Richards, London, UK), Geoffrey Farmer (Vancouver), Samuel Roy-Bois (Montreal/New York) and Curtis Grahauer (Vancouver) present a diverse set of situations for gallery goers to negotiate, ranging from doing laundry to singing Karaoke.

Artlab plays off of Edouard Manet’s Dejeuner sur l’herbe (1863) to present an interactive picnic installation while Geoffrey Farmer provides an in-gallery laundry service reminiscent of a communal wash house. Samuel Roy-Bois (Montreal/New York) creates a sound stage that is activated by the viewer and Curtis Grahauer (Vancouver) presents a short film and makes karaoke available to the public during gallery hours.

The exhibition takes its title from an utterance made by Vito Acconci in his notorious installation Seedbed (1972) “…I’ve done this for you. I’ve done this with you. I’ve done this to you…”

In I’ve done this for you, the body is present physically via the participation of the audience and their role in completing the work and theoretically through notions of the body and nature, the body and cleanliness, the body and sound and the body and performance.