Sporting Protest
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68097
Description: from the Series 1933, 1968, 2003 - Art in the Face of the Project for The New American Century, 2003 - ongoing.
Sporting Protest [Popperfoto, Mexico City, October 1968: Tommie Smith and John Carlos give the Black Power salute at Olympic Games, 1968 // Arnold Skolnick, 3 days of peace & music, 1969].
Measurements: various
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Work by Dick Averns
Operation Indian
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68141
Description: Clandestine billboard installation (multi-site), London, UK, 1993.
Measurements: various
Collection:
Date Made: 1993
Materials: billboard installation (work in progress)
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Operation Indian (Let This Smoke Signal be a Warning)
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68142
Description: Clandestine billboard installation (multi-site), London, UK, 1993.
Measurements: various
Collection:
Date Made: 1993
Materials: billboard installation
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Operation Indian (Dont Let Cigarettes Take Your Scalp)
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68143
Description: Clandestine billboard installation (multi-site), London, UK, 1993.
Measurements: various
Collection:
Date Made: 1993
Materials: billboard installation
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Operation Indian (Here Rides the Ghost of the Marlboro Man)
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68144
Description: Clandestine billboard installation (multi-site), London, UK, 1993.
Measurements: various
Collection:
Date Made: 1993
Materials: billboard installation
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Luxury Avenue:
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68139
Description: from the Series Luxury Avenue, 1998.
Measurements: 50.8 x 76.2 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 1998
Materials: Duratrans & lightbox
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Earth Moving
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68135
Description: from the Series Luxury Avenue, 1998.
Measurements: 50.8 x 101.6 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 1998
Materials: Duratrans & lightbox
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Gulf Island Logging Access
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68133
Description: from the Series Luxury Avenue, 1998.
Measurements: 50.8 x 101.6 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 1998
Materials: Duratrans & lightbox
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Zero Avenue
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68140
Description: from the Series Luxury Avenue, 1998.
Measurements: 50.8 x 101.6 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 1998
Materials: Duratrans & lightbox
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Human Overspill
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68136
Description: from the Series Luxury Avenue, 1998.
Measurements: 50.8 x 101.6 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 1998
Materials: Duratrans & lightbox
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Footprint
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68137
Description: from the Series Luxury Avenue, 1998.
Measurements: 50.8 x 101.6 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 1998
Materials: Duratrans & lightbox
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Tract
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68134
Description: from the Series Luxury Avenue, 1998.
Measurements: 50.8 x 101.6 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 1998
Materials: Duratrans & lightbox
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Critically Framed
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68138
Description: from the Series Luxury Avenue, 1998.
Measurements: 50.8 x 101.6 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 1998
Materials: Duratrans & lightbox
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Illuminating Language
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68122
Description: from the series of Neon Sculpture Works, 1999 - ongoing.
Measurements: 25.4 x 304.8 x 15.24 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 1999
Materials: Neon, chromed steel
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Exercising Desire (detail)
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68124
Description: from the series of Neon Sculpture Works, 1999 - ongoing.
Measurements: 106.68 x 157.48 x 20.32 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2000
Materials: Neon, powder coated aluminum, custom flasher
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Exercising Desire
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68123
Description: from the series of Neon Sculpture Works, 1999 - ongoing.
Measurements: 106.68 x 157.48 x 20.32 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2000
Materials: Neon, powder coated aluminum, custom flasher
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Illuminating Language
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68125
Description: from the series of Neon Sculpture Works, 1999 - ongoing.
Measurements: 60.96 x 609.6 x 30.48 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2001
Materials: Neon, brite aluminum checker plate, steel
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Utopia Pkwy chez Joseph Cornell
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68107
Description: from the Series Ambivalence Blvd, 1999 - ongoing. New York City, 2002.
Measurements:
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: sculpture, performative events & photographic prints (edition of 7)
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Seats of Power – the Armchair Terrorist
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68110
Description: from the Series, Seats of Power - the Armchair Terrorist, 1999 - ongoing.
Measurements: 50.8 x 71.12 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: concept drawing, graphite on mylar
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Seats of Power – the Armchair Terrorist
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68111
Description: from the Series, Seats of Power - the Armchair Terrorist, 1999 - ongoing.
Measurements: 50.8 x 71.12 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2002
Materials: concept drawing, graphite on mylar
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Seats of Power Mk2 – the Armchair Terrorist
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68121
Description: from the Series, Seats of Power - the Armchair Terrorist, 1999 - ongoing. Location: LIVE: Vancouver Biennial of Performance Art, Vancouver, 2003.
Measurements: various
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials: custom chair, suiting, harness, artist
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Comrades, Its Never Over!
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68096
Description: from the Series 1933, 1968, 2003 - Art in the Face of the Project for The New American Century, 2003 - ongoing.
Comrades, it's Never Over! [Eddie Adams, Saigon, February 1968: Chief of police executes Vietcong suspect, 1968 // Istvan Orosz, Tovarishi, Koniets! (Comrades, It's Over), Hungary, 1990].
Measurements: various
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Seats of Power Mk2 – the Armchair Terrorist
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68119
Description: from the Series, Seats of Power - the Armchair Terrorist, 1999 - ongoing. Location: Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2003.
Measurements: various
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials: custom chair, suiting, harness, artist
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Dog Police
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68100
Description: from the Series 1933, 1968, 2003 - Art in the Face of the Project for The New American Century, 2003 - ongoing.
Dog Police [Grabbed image, U.S. transport plane en route to Guantanamo Bay, 2002 // Joseph Beuys, Coyote: I Like America and America Likes me, 1974].
Measurements: various
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
United We Stand (Ambivalence Blvd)
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68104
Description: from the Series Ambivalence Blvd, 1999 - ongoing. World Exchange Plaza, Ottawa, 2005..
Measurements:
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials: sculpture, performative events & photographic prints (edition of 7)
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Exquisite Corpse
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68098
Description: from the Series 1933, 1968, 2003 - Art in the Face of the Project for The New American Century, 2003 - ongoing.
Exquisite Corpse [James Montgomery Flagg, I Want YOU for U.S. Army, 1917 // Anon, I Want YOU for U.S. Army, 1972].
Measurements: various
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Seats of Power Mk1 – the Armchair Terrorist
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68116
Description: from the Series, Seats of Power - the Armchair Terrorist, 1999 - ongoing. Location: union rally, Vancouver, 2003.
Measurements: various
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials: custom chair, canvas, straight jacket, leather, artist
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Seats of Power Mk2 – the Armchair Terrorist
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68120
Description: from the Series, Seats of Power - the Armchair Terrorist, 1999 - ongoing. Location: LIVE: Vancouver Biennial of Performance Art, Vancouver, 2003.
Measurements: various
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials: custom chair, suiting, harness, artist
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Opening Competition
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68092
Description: from the Series 1933, 1968, 2003 - Art in the Face of the Project for The New American Century, 2003 - ongoing.
Opening Competition [Albert Janesch, Water Sport, 1936 // Benno von Arent, Unter den Linden, 1937].
Measurements: various
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Seats of Power Mk2 – the Armchair Terrorist
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68118
Description: from the Series, Seats of Power - the Armchair Terrorist, 1999 - ongoing. Location: Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2003.
Measurements: various
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials: custom chair, suiting, harness, artist
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Seats of Power Mk1
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68112
Description: from the Series, Seats of Power - the Armchair Terrorist, 1999 - ongoing.
Measurements: various
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials: custom chair, canvas, straight jacket, leather
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Sporting Protest
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68097
Description: from the Series 1933, 1968, 2003 - Art in the Face of the Project for The New American Century, 2003 - ongoing.
Sporting Protest [Popperfoto, Mexico City, October 1968: Tommie Smith and John Carlos give the Black Power salute at Olympic Games, 1968 // Arnold Skolnick, 3 days of peace & music, 1969].
Measurements: various
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Seats of Power Mk1 – the Armchair Terrorist
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68115
Description: from the Series, Seats of Power - the Armchair Terrorist, 1999 - ongoing. Location: LIVE: Vancouver Biennial of Performance Art, Vancouver, 2003.
Measurements: various
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials: custom chair, canvas, straight jacket, leather, artist
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Repeat Performance
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68099
Description: from the Series 1933, 1968, 2003 - Art in the Face of the Project for The New American Century, 2003 - ongoing.
Repeat Performance [Alfredo Jaar, The Eyes of Gutete Emerita, 1996 // Alfredo Jaar, The Eyes of Gutete Emerita, 1996].
Measurements: various
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Fall – War is Clover
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68103
Description: from the Series 1933, 1968, 2003 - Art in the Face of the Project for The New American Century, 2003 - ongoing.
Fall - War is Clover [John & Yoko, War is Over, 1969 // Gilbert & George, Fall, 1987].
Measurements: various
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Seats of Power Mk1 – the Armchair Terrorist
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68114
Description: from the Series, Seats of Power - the Armchair Terrorist, 1999 - ongoing. Location: 'Live Action, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, 2005.
Measurements: various
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials: custom chair, canvas, straight jacket, leather, artist
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Formal Structures
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68093
Description: from the Series 1933, 1968, 2003 - Art in the Face of the Project for The New American Century, 2003 - ongoing.
Formal Structures [Soviet & German pavilions, Paris, 1937 // Anon, Madrid. The 'Military' Practice of the Rebels].
Measurements: various
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Seats of Power Mk1
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68113
Description: from the Series, Seats of Power - the Armchair Terrorist, 1999 - ongoing.
Measurements: various
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials: custom chair, canvas, straight jacket, leather, artist
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Erasure
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68102
Description: from the Series 1933, 1968, 2003 - Art in the Face of the Project for The New American Century, 2003 - ongoing.
Erasure [Grabbed image, Rachel Corrie, Palestine, 2003 // Robert Smithson, Glue Pour, 1970].
Measurements: various
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Pinnacle
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68101
Description: from the Series 1933, 1968, 2003 - Art in the Face of the Project for The New American Century, 2003 - ongoing.
Pinnacle [Grabbed image, Iraqi P.O.W. and son, Iraq, 2003 // Rebecca Horn, Unicorn, Rebecca Horn, 1973].
Measurements: various
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Bodily Clarification
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68094
Description: from the Series 1933, 1968, 2003 - Art in the Face of the Project for The New American Century, 2003 - ongoing.
Bodily Clarification [Josef Thorak, Monumental Group, 1934-6 // Willi Baumeister, Arno Breker's The Avenger with head drawn by Willi Baumeister, c. 1941].
Measurements: various
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Continental Shift
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68095
Description: from the Series 1933, 1968, 2003 - Art in the Face of the Project for The New American Century, 2003 - ongoing.
Continental Shift [Anon, Warsaw Ghetto, April 1943 // Art Workers' Coalition, Q. And babies? A. And babies, My Lai, Vietnam, 1970].
Measurements: various
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Seats of Power Mk2 – the Armchair Terrorist
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68117
Description: from the Series, Seats of Power - the Armchair Terrorist, 1999 - ongoing. Location: Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2003.
Measurements: various
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials: custom chair, suiting, harness, artist
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Making a Stand (Ambivalence Blvd)
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68105
Description: from the Series Ambivalence Blvd, 1999 - ongoing. Union Rally, Simon Fraser University, 2003.
Measurements:
Collection:
Date Made: 2003
Materials: sculpture, performative events & photographic prints (edition of 7)
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Benchmarks and Bookends
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68128
Description: The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, 2005.
Measurements:
Collection:
Date Made: 2005
Materials: performative lecture, mobile architecture (Seats of Power and Galley ©arts) sound
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Museological Stand
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68108
Description: from the Series Ambivalence Blvd, 1999 - ongoing. Canadian War Museum, 2005.
Measurements:
Collection:
Date Made: 2005
Materials: sculpture, performative events & photographic prints (edition of 7)
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Benchmarks and Bookends
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68130
Description: The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, 2005.
Measurements:
Collection:
Date Made: 2005
Materials: performative lecture, mobile architecture (Seats of Power and Galley ©arts) sound
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Global Stand (Ambivalence Blvd)
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68106
Description: from the Series Ambivalence Blvd, 1999 - ongoing. World Exchange Plaza, Ottawa, 2005..
Measurements:
Collection:
Date Made: 2005
Materials: sculpture, performative events & photographic prints (edition of 7)
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Benchmarks and Bookends
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68131
Description: The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, 2005.
Measurements:
Collection:
Date Made: 2005
Materials: performative lecture, mobile architecture (Seats of Power and Galley ©arts) sound
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Benchmarks and Bookends
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68132
Description: The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, 2005.
Measurements:
Collection:
Date Made: 2005
Materials: performative lecture, mobile architecture (Seats of Power and Galley ©arts) sound
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Benchmarks and Bookends
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68129
Description: The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, 2005.
Measurements:
Collection:
Date Made: 2005
Materials: performative lecture, mobile architecture (Seats of Power and Galley ©arts) sound
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Ambivalence Blvd (video still)
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68109
Description: from the Series Ambivalence Blvd, 1999 - ongoing. US Embassy, Ottawa, 2005.
Measurements:
Collection:
Date Made: 2005
Materials: sculpture, performative events & photographic prints (edition of 7)
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Benchmarks and Bookends (preset)
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68127
Description: The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, 2005.
Measurements:
Collection:
Date Made: 2005
Materials: performative lecture, mobile architecture (Seats of Power and Galley ©arts) sound
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
The Terms of Art are Endless
Artist: Dick Averns
Work ID: 68126
Description: from the series of Neon Sculpture Works, 1999 - ongoing.
Measurements: 5.08 x 182.88 x 7.62 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2006
Materials: neon
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
