Skwat Doc (a.k.a. squat doc)

Artist/Creator: Tom Burrows (Artist)
Date: 1981-1982
ID #: BG2170

Physical Description

Medium: coloured photocopies, attache case, folder, wood board, stickers, ink, Letraset, coloured pencil, graphite
Support: –
Dimensions: 10.5 cm 44 cm 31 cm (Object)
Object Description: This "portable exhibition" is contained in an attache case and consists of 71 coloured xeroxes and 16 text panels organized into 12 groupings. The hanging (roughly 50 running feet) is subject to the particular architectural space. Apart from the drawings, the attache case also holds a painted wood-board with the text 'SWAT DOC - the exhibition - travels in this case and has a flexible display format that fits most locations' and a folder which contains: hanging/grouping instructions (hand-written in English); didactics to accompany each grouping; interviews with Geoffrey Peyne, Hans Haacke, and John F. C. Turner; and a Statement of Esthetic Principles (typed in German).

History

Collection: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection
Credit Line: Gift of the artist, 1999
Related Exhibitions: Tom Burrows

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