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SETTLING THE TABLING and THE FABRIC OF CULTURE were presented in the exhibition THINKING TEXTILES, curated by Deborah Koenker in 2003-4 at the Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond BC.
SETTLING THE TABLING grew out of a small piece done for the Faculty show at Emily Carr University of Art and Design the previous year (first two images). I was involved in contract negotiations that year, and became interested in the protocol of the process - the overlays of domestic and work related language; Labour. Tabling. Passing across the table... noting the poetics which ironically highlight both the formal division and the human connection between domestic and public politics.
During contract negotiations I took hand written notes in every meeting. At the conclusion of negotiations I photo-copied this entire written record, returning the copies to the Faculty Association Archive and shredding the originals (There is a lot of shredding in the negotiation process too).
I then constructed a table with one pair of Boardroom legs and another pair of Kitchen table legs and created a tablecloth made out of the shredded notes woven into foolscap paper. It was held together with paperclips and decorated with paper lace trim made out of hole punched foolscap paper.
In THE FABRIC OF CULTURE I began collecting all of the Newspapers available in Vancouver's Lower Mainland - or at least trying to - and weaving shredded strips from different papers into each other. The question asked in this work was: "Whose News is it anyway?" as well as acknowledging the plethora of languages spoken in the very international community of Vancouver.