Eerie's Funeral - 07/19/2006

Eerie Humming, a visionary, a revolutionary, and most importantly, a friend, was found dead from excessive disappointment. This is a man who is reserved but passionate about his ideal. This is a man who would rather eat crackers than soup. On July 19, we sent him on his way in an intimate funeral where he was cremated. To us, he is still alive: He's still here in my heart, and my heart will go on and on.

Related readings: Céline Dion

E Awards - 02/28/2006

Eerie Humming shows the Victoria art community how could someone so obscure be a runner-up in the Best Art Installation category at the 2006 M Awards: He does so by showing up in all of his glorious awesomeness. On February 28th, Eerie, Chris and Stephen attended the M Awards ceremony (and lost). Nevertheless, there is a good chance you may catch Eerie and Chris on the streets of Victoria in the upcoming months. Say hello, don't spit. Cardboard wrinkles.

UPIIDD - ONGOING

UPIIDD stands for Unauthorized Public Instalation and Internet Display and Distribution. The project is an experiment in the crossover between the virtual space and the analogue world. Ideas that begin in the analogue imagination, get created and disseminated in virtual space, then recreated for the "real" world in the form of toys and merchandise. I take that by-product, and re-establish it into an appropriate context in the analogue world, then redistribute via the virtual.

Another project from our Ottawa-bureau is Peoples, which involves gluing photographic portraits of peoples at random places. It is a way of capturing a moment in someones virtual echo, and letting it resonate a little more. It is also comforting to know, as any respectable free-thinker should, that everyone can participate the Peoples project, all you need to do is to request a kit by via the IUFT mail hub and start gluing!

Puppet City - 10/11/2005

... and Eerie said: "We must construct a new city far away from this dreaded town." Puppet City will be defined by its inhabitants, who will never be alone as they will always be accompanied by their Cardboard Buddies . No new buildings will be built, insteads new personae will emerge in a preexisting city (AKA New Smyrna Beach, Florida), as "the 'nuclear units' of new politics must be the citizen... it embodies the ideal of philia, autonomy, rationality, and above all, civil committment." [Clark: Municipal Dreams] The audiences and participants' ears and minds will be "educated unconsciously." [Leavis: Fictions and the Reading Public] Are we just a bunch of Utopian Socialists with delusions of grandeur?

Fuck no! After three weeks of intense transformation, we have proved that a cardboard community will work in today's society. Here are some photographic evidence in case you don't believe me.

Related readings: Buddy Manual, Atlantic Center for the Arts