Blim presents:
Teh
New works by Patrick Cruz and Simon Redekop
Opening: 8-11 PM, Saturday July 2 | Runs July 2nd – 30th
Blimited (limited edition T-shirts) designed by Patrick Cruz and Simon Redekop. The price is only $35.
While intuition is independent of any reasoning process due to its direct perception and action. Both Patrick Cruz and Simon Redekop’s one year collaboration resulted in an accumulation of works that explored and investigated the role of intuitivity and play in the process of making and planning art. Consisting of video, performance, painting and sculpture the installation is manifested in a collage`esque manner where the idea of layers are deliberately and literally used as a tool to simultaneously change the perspective of a static state. TEH proposes the possibility of an uncertain future while allowing the viewer to freely associate meaning within its scatological manifestation which produces a non-linear reading of the work.
Teh is an Internet slang neologism most frequently used as an English article, based on a common typographical error of the. Teh has subsequently developed grammatical usages distinct from the.[1] It is not common in spoken or written English outside technical or leetspeak circles, but when spoken, it is pronounced /tɛ/ or /tə/.[2]
Teh is one of the words in the auto-correct lists of spellcheckers in word processing applications such as Microsoft Word, OpenOffice. org Writer, Pages, and Corel WordPerfect. T and E are typed by the left hand on adjacent fingers in Qwerty, while the H is typed by the right, and in rapid typing, the T and E are often typed by the left hand in a drumming motion before the right can get the H in between the two. Overcompensating with the right hand can result in the misspelling hte, which is also found in auto-correct lists.
Born and raised in Manila Philippines, Vancouver based artist Patrick Cruz studied Painting in the University of the Philippines Diliman and finished his BFA degree studies from Emily Carr University Art + Design with a major in General Fine Arts. Cruz has been featured in Lab Magazine online, Fundamentalist zine and W00 magazine, He recently had a solo show at the W00 gallery called “MADE IN THE PHILIPPINES”. He has also recently collaborated with the STOREFRONT by Denver Lynxleg, WHOSE MUSEUM by Laura Hatfield and the TIN CAN STUDIOS where he hosted a talk called “INTUITIVE BBQ” His artistic practise is focused around the ideas of alienation, color, displacement and post-identity. He currently uses Facebook as a platform for social intervention.
Simon Redekop is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. He studied General Fine arts at Kwantlen University College and Received a diploma in Graphic design and Illustration from Capilano University College in 2000. Redekop has worked on collaborative projects and exhibitions since his graduation, primarily with Vancouver based artist collective Humanfive.
From 2000-2007 the collective had solo shows in Vancouver, Calgary, Portland, San Diego, Tokyo and Barcelona. To date he has had 3 solo exhibitions of his work in Vancouver at the Crying Room, Parking Spot and Jeffrey Boone Gallery. Simon’s work explores the imagination and often investigates themes of consciousness, paradox, social activity, individual perception and detachment.
More over intuition, reprocessing, humor and play strongly influence his approach and process of making art. Initially working with painting, drawing, collage and sculpture, more recently Redekop has focused his efforts on incorporating video, animation and sound into his practice.
[1] ^ Ross, Nigel (July 2006). “Writing in the Information Age”. English Today 22 (3): 39–45.
[2] ^ a b LeBlanc, Tracy Rene (May 2005) (PDF). “Is there a translator in teh house?”: Cultural and discourse analysis of a virtual speech community on an internet message board. University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
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