NO FIXED ADDRESS

DYAN HATANAKA

Dyan Hatanaka uses subversion and humor in her suitcase. She has filled a plain black suitcase with photocopies of altered Canadian currency. She transforms the portraits on the money into Elvis and Spock, adds ink splatterings, uni-horned birds and mystical rainforest mushrooms to the Canadian landscape depicted on currency.

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KHALM H’ERBIN

“Objects as catalysts for memories and feelings. Memories and feelings as catalysts for stories. Stories expressed according to the teller’s memories filtered by their feelings. Stories experienced according to the relatable memories and feelings of the voyeur.” KHalm H’erbin acts as storyteller, and has assembled common objects, and offers insight into their personal significance.

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DONNA KOSTER
artist statement

For her suitcase, Donna Koster, has deconstructed a vintage suitcase. She uses the suitcase as an artistic medium itself for experimentation, stripping the object of its original intentions. The suitcase is filled with empty boxes, until they consume the suitcase itself.

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DAVE KURUC + ERIN WARNER

Dave Kuruc (of Mixed Media art supply store) and local artist Erin Warner work together to assemble a mobile zine library. This allows visitors to browse and read independently produced magazines and literature.

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MATTHEW MCINNES
artist statement

Matt McInnes has constructed a portable printmaking kit, allowing visitors to borrow his stencils for creative expression. “Cardboard silhouettes resembling animals flowers and stars, have been attached to wooden dowels creating simple, handheld mechanisms that are designed to leave a mark when traced, inked and stamped, or sprayed.”

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ANDREW MCPHAIL
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Andrew McPhail has filled his suitcase with organic-looking objects, which pour out of the suitcase. These objects vary in size and shape, and are assembled out of repetitive layering of medical band-aids. McPhail responds to issues of medicine, skin, and HIV.

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JESSICA VELLENGA
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Jessica Vellenga, co-organizer of No Fixed Address, has created physical manifestations of the “emotional baggage” people carry with them, communicated in the form of a suitcase filled with notes on luggage tags of submitted emotional baggage.