Micah Lexier

Harold Cohen, 1972. Thanks @perfectlives_

@offprint_projects highlight - A series of stickers, self published by Gabor Toth in the 1970s. Thanks @socco.chico

Two out-of-print zines published by @nievesbooks . Top is “My Morning Swim” made in 2019 with @shannon_gerard . The bottom is “Book Bag Drawings” published in 2022.

Box of cards.

Ai Weiwei’s Forever Bicycles is a revelation. It was made in 2014 out of 1254 stainless steel bicycles and is presently located on the grounds of The Forks in Winnipeg. I saw a glimpse of it from a distance and was very drawn to it. My first impression was just how dematerialized it was. I thought my eyes were unable to focus, but it’s just the visual result of the bicycles being so closely spaced to one another. It’s a truly sensational sculpture. The artwork is in the collection of the @natgallerycan and is on extended loan to @theforkswinnipeg who have installed it in this very dramatic setting. Congratulations to everyone involved. 10/10 There are numerous other iterations of this artwork in different cities across the world.

Here are three examples of Things of Science boxed sets. Things of Science was an educational program of the nonprofit news syndicate Science Service that ran from 1940 to 1989. The program consisted of a series of kits available by subscription and sent by mail monthly. The instructions were written by Science Service staff and the kit materials were donated by various companies. Each kit was based on a single theme or lesson. Some of the kits give off artist’s multiple vibes. They’re still available pretty inexpensively on EBay.

🗝 Inside Art Nest:⁠ ⁠ A Governor General’s Award–winning artist, Micah Lexier is known for exploring time, measurement, and the structures we use to understand our lives.⁠ ⁠ In One Day, Lexier has minted 23,980 aluminum coins—one for every day he has lived.⁠ ⁠ Beginning at #TOAF65, he will give them away, one per person, until they are gone.⁠ ⁠ A work that turns a lifetime into something tangible—and then lets it disperse.⁠ ⁠ See it at Art Nest, #TOAF65⁠ ⁠ Art Nest is TOAF's Public Art Program, this year curated by Rui Pimenta.⁠

Yesterday was the opening “Say The Word” my collaborative project with @may.kineyetums for @thesaag curated by @whitfor.dada.m . Since the project took place in Coffee News and at two locations around the city, we did a walking tour to visit the locations. When we walked into @nectarfinetattooing we were treated to the wholly unplanned sight of @harley_morman getting the very first free tattoo of the series, designed by @may.kineyetums (Image 5 is May on the left and Harley on the right). For more info about the project and how you could get one of the following week’s, tattoos or one of 12 different prizes at @analogbooksyql please check yesterday‘s post or go to SAAG’s website.

“Say The Word” made in collabaration with @may.kineyetums for @thesaag and curated by @whitfor.dada.m is the first of 4 exhibitions collected under the title Asterisms, presented in honour of the gallery’s 50th Anniversary. Each exhibition pairs an older artist with an emerging artist. Here is the gallery’s description: “For the first Asterisms exhibition, artists May Kineyetums and Micah Lexier take their project outside of the gallery space. Titled “Say the Word”, their exhibition engages with language-learning, sharing, vulnerability, and joy, in a trio of unexpected sites across the city. In developing their project together, Lexier brought his years of experience crafting artworks that incorporate letterforms, word games, and scavenger hunts while Kineyetums, who is currently learning to speak Blackfoot, brought their experience learning the original language of Treaty 7 Territory. During the exhibition, the artists share six, easy-to-learn Blackfoot words of positivity and kindness through Coffee News, a free weekly publication available at restaurants and businesses across the city. The wide circulation of Coffee News invites everyone to participate in the exhibition, while also playing a role in language revitalization as treaty people. Alongside each word is its definition and an invitation to “say the word” at @analogbooksyql in downtown Lethbridge. By speaking the word of the week to the staff at Analog Books, Blackfoot language learners will be rewarded with one of many rotating prizes in the form of artist-made multiples visualizing the spoken word of that week. May made charms and Micah made patches. Also within the Coffee News, nestled amongst the ad spaces, drawings by Kineyetums and Lexier alternate weekly. Each artist’s small line drawings connote the essence of that week’s Blackfoot word. The drawing is also an invitation. The first reader to visit @nectarfinetattooing that week, can receive the same drawing as a complimentary tattoo. For those that happen to stop in at Nectar, or for those who maybe do not want to commit to a tattoo, the artists have stocked Nectar’s capsule vending machine with temporary tattoos for purchase.”

I’m having some fomo seeing all the posts from Venice. The pavilion I’m most interested in seeing is Oriol Vilanova’s project- Los Restos at the Spanish Pavilion. The installation consists of 50,000 postcards selected from his larger collection. @oriolvilanova curated by @carlesguerra Photos taken from a variety of sources including @lapromessedelecran and Dani Issler. If I didn’t credit you please dm me.

Names of Shapes, 2022. As installed at @birchcontemporary . It’s a rather understated show but one of my favourites.