I Am The Coin

McCormack, Derek. I Am The Coin. Toronto, Ont.: BMO Project Room, 2010.

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Abstract (English)

I Am the Coin was a year-long installation consisting of thousands of coins mounted directly on one wall of the BMO "project room in 2010. Each custom-minted coin is imprinted with a single letter of the alphabet. What at first appears to be a random grid of letters reveals itself, upon closer inspection, to be a series of words and sentences uninterrupted by spaces or punctuation marks. The words and sentences combine to tell a story that was written specifically for this project by toronto writer Derek McCormack. The bottom half of the grid spells out the story, which can be read like a book, from left to right; the top half of the grid is a mirror image of the bottom. The story is all about coins, the installation itself, and the people behind it." - Official website.

Types:	Artists' publications ; Flyers, posters
All Contributors:	McCormack, Derek (Author)
Dossier:	410 - LEXIER, MICAH
Collation:	1 folded sheet ([24] p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Language of Publication:	English
Publishers:	Toronto, Ont.: BMO Project Room
Artists:	Lexier, Micah
Event Title:	I Am the Coin
Type:	Exhibition
Location:	BMO Project Room (Toronto, Ont.)
Dates:	4 Jan. - 30 Nov. 2010
Keywords:	STORYTELLING; MONEY; PUZZLE
Copyright Statement:	BMO Project Room
Official URL:	http://www.iamthecoin.com/installation.html
Notes:	The narrator is the "I" coin 20 rows from the bottom.
Deposited by:	Users 1 not found.
Date Deposited:	02 Nov 2010
Last Modified:	10 Mar 2016 16:08
URI:	http://e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/21641

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