Notes to Stephen Collis ” A Show of Hands” on The Commons

-An article in the Mainlander, quite critical of the easy idea of “hand vote” as democracy, mentions several public art works which seem to register a local anxiety about common space, power, development, etc. in tension.

http://themainlander.com/2012/02/14/review-kota-ezawas-hand-vote/

Kota Ezawa Hand Vote, 2008 Althea Thauberer Ecce-Homo, 2011

Stan Douglas Abbot and Cordova, 2009

Links to Canadian Art article about 2010 Olympics and images of Ken Lum’s, Monument for East Vancouver