The Great Journey of a Lifetime: Hold onto the Rope — an independent Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Toronto 2015 installation suitable for all ages presented by John Shipman and the Department of Household Sciences & Advanced Proverbs — on 3 October at St. Matthew's United Church, 729 St-Clair Avenue West.
Invitation · Joy Shipman
Delivered earlier this week: 600 feet of 1.5-inch line on a four-foot high reel for The Great Journey of a Lifetime's ten decades-long, braided and knotted StoryRope — photos and more here.
To see / learn more about kumihino braiding, start with this three-minute Michael Cook video (in Japanese).
Watch a short video clip on braiding StoryRopes for The Great Journey of a Lifetime.
Photos · Marcelle St-Amant
The Department of Household Sciences & Advanced Proverbs is pleased to announce its inaugural publication — an illustrated, 300-page first edition of The Endless Proverb, the ten-hour, 10,000 line-long sentence constructed from proverbs from around the world by John Shipman as part of his Nuit Blanche 2013 installation, Ten Models of the Universe — will be available later this summer.
To reserve / order your copies, please contact John.
ISBN: 978-0-9939789-0-6
5.25 x 9 inches
300 pages
Draft pages 58–59 with illustrations by Joy Shipman, 2013-2015
4 October 2014 was — by the numbers — a happy night with
For more, go to the project page for Dried Beans Models of the Universe.
The Department of Sciences & Advanced Proverbs is pleased announce the Summer 2015 publication of the print version of John Shipman's The Endless Proverb Model of the Universe, the ten-hour long, ten thousand line-long sentence constructed from proverbs from around the world as presented as part of Ten Models of the Universe (2013).
To become a subscriber and for more info, please contact John.
The relationship between science and the arts is fraught. Because the abstract mathematical language of theoretical physics intrigues and repels non-scientists we sometimes forget that astrophysicists also talk about peanuts. How can art bring forward a playful storytelling that includes all of us in conversations about the universe?
The Department of Household Sciences & Advanced Proverbs uses the methods of the kitchen, the basement workshop, and backyard play to nourish human understanding through touching, hearing, tasting, seeing and making.
Come explore ten hands-on models of the universe — search for the seven beanets of Beanetary System, play the giant bean-star game, take a bean bath, sound the bean rainsticks, taste seven bean chili, sew a bean bag — at my ninth independent project for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Toronto, Dried Beans Models of the Universe from the Department of Household Sciences & Advanced Proverbs, at St. Matthew's United Church, 729 St. Clair Avenue West, Toronto on 4-5 October.
