Ghost Chorus – Dirge for Dead Slang, 2009

Katie Bethune-Leamen - Toronto, Canada

Installation

From the dead centre of Larry Sefton Park the sights and sounds of Ghost Chorus – Dirge for Dead Slang rise up into the trees and into the ears of onlookers, rubberneckers and passers-by. These ghostly apparitions raise their voices to the driving melancholic baseline from the beyond to revivify outmoded slang of the long and recent past. See the dead rise to life! Hear the dead rise to life! Sing. Sing. Sing.

Katie Bethune-Leamen is an artist, writer and sometime-curator. Commissions include Mushroom Studio for the Toronto Sculpture Garden in 2008/2009 and work for Goodbye to Romance at Mercer Union in 2009. She has participated in residencies including I Wanna See You in Eindhoven, NL, and YYZ Artists’ Outlet in 2008, and in 2009, Reverse Pedagogy II in Venice and Why Are Conceptual Artists Painting Again? at the Banff Centre. Bethune-Leamen curated The Way I Are at the University of Toronto's Blackwood Gallery in 2009.

Suitable for all ages