A. R. Tel
June 30 – July 11, 1987
Exhibition
About the Program
A. R. Tel is a collection of Arthur Simmons' rebuilt and customized phones, which take on strange and wonderful personas. Some are built into radios, some into toy trucks, some onto long planks, and one called Don't Hang Up has the receiver cradled in a noose. The humorous offerings from your telephone repair man transcend the phones' practicality through wit and whimsy to comment on society's love affair with the phone. Inside the humour is a reflection on the nature of communication, both in the artistic sense and in the practical sense. By externalizing and dressing up the internal components of our low-tech familiars (i.e. phones), Simmons brings to light their artistic possibilities.Artist
Arthur SimmonsIdentifier
1987.0630 ARTCollection
grunt gallery Programming ArchiveLocation
grunt gallery (first location)209 E. 6th Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 1J8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations
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