John G. Boehme [Canada]
"FORE MIEN"

performance 15.00 - 18.30
Saturday 5th May 2001

installaction exhibition
6th - 21th May 2001

Boehme’s durational work continues his fascination and investigation of men and their leisure pursuits. Over a period of three and a half hours the artist drives 600 golf balls into an aluminium clad wall of the gallery.
Boehme’s work is a co-mingling of conceptual considerations with pure aestheticism.

The viewer is drawn to the visual seductiveness of the piece and through this sustained interaction the conceptual aspects are revealed. This disclosure is often a simple statement of fact or of humour which presents itself without anger or defensiveness.

Boehme gained his inter-media degree at Emily Carr Institute of Art, Vancouver and has recently been awarded an MA at the University of Victoria BC. He has produced installation exhibitions throughout Canada & the USA and has recently been awarded residencies at Banff, Canada and CAMAC, France. He also curates performance art events in Victoria and Vancouver and represents an emerging generation of performance artists from the north west Pacific rim.

John Boehme’s work at trace has been supported by The Canada Council for the Arts.