ICA•RDI - 2002 (Est.) 2009 (Inc.)
Agency: Dialectic - Local Heritage / International Current Art
ICA•RDI signage 2005 - 2009 - proposition to create The International Zone on the Lunenburg waterfront (ICA•RDI est. 2002, Incorporated as non-profit society 2009)
Coming Soon! - ICA•RDI Lunenburg proposition, est. 2002 - three years before NSCAD arrived with an undergrad residency program
Montague Street, Lunenburg
Montague Street building side view (ICA•RDI banner hanging on back corner)
view from the back window
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Montague Street interior presentation space
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ICA•RDI as news 2005
ICA•RDI in Second Life, 2007
The creation of Art Administrations' Birthday, an annual celebration *see 'Art Administrations' Birthday, February 19th' page, or link below http://virtualartistsalliance.blogspot.ca/2007/02/february-19th-is-art-administrations.html
Exchange Agreement, 2008
On display in the administrative office of the Khyber ICA from January 17th (Art's Birthday) to February 19th (Art Administrations' Birthday) 2008 was a work by BL MacNevin. The piece consists of two buckets linked together, a bucket of dirt and the sponge in a bucket of water from the Birth of Art and the Birth of Art Administration.
The bucket of dirt refers to the work by Allan Kaprow in which he exchanged the dirt in his bucket, i.e. he offered you his bucket of dirt to be replaced by your dirt, each new dirt held a story, the bucket functioned as a container for exchange like an art gallery. This bucket of dirt is a representation of Allan Kaprow's bucket of dirt and is linked to a representation of Robert Filliou's 'art object' from the Birth of Art.
As fundraiser for the Khyber Arts Society, this work is entitled Exchange Agreement; the value required for this work is $10,000, the amount now needed by the society to cover a deficit in this year's budget. The Khyber Arts Society can offer a non-profit association charitable status tax receipt for the patronage. (BL January 2008) PS - The dirt in the bucket, which I still have, was from the basement of the Khyber building, gathered from the dirt floor along the basement wall (so this dirt has small pieces of brick in it that fell off the Khyber's basement brick wall over time)... the sale price of this work still stands, the money will go to the Khyber towards their exhibition programming budget. (BL February 2014) The Blue Boy Art Administrations' Birthday, February 19, 2014 |
Art Administrations' Birthday
Robert Filliou believed that art was a "verb", he said that art's birth occurred a million years ago "when a dry sponge was dropped into a bucket of water". This "action", the dropping the dry sponge into the bucket of water, was art's beginning, he dated it on a January 17th. Art administration deals mainly with art as a "noun" (i.e. the objects). A few years ago being involved in art administration I thought it would be a good idea to celebrate 'Art Administrations' Birthday'.* It of course occurs after "Art's Birthday", a little over a month after "Art's Birthday" on February 19th (my son Emmett's birthday) I declared was 'Art Administrations' Birthday', it was the day a million years or so ago when the saturated sponge was found floating in a bucket of water by an art administrator. So began 'Art Administration', which celebrates art, the "noun" (like the saturated sponge floating in a bucket of water) and so a little over a month after “Art’s Birthday” (January 17th) just under a million years ago, the object (the sponge in a bucket of water) from the “Birth of Art” was discovered, labeled artwork, acquistitioned, evaluated, documented, conserved/cared for, placed on exhibit and pedagogically interpreted. 
Exchange Agreement, 2008
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Working 'The International Zone', ICA•RDI Bunker Lunenburg waterfront, summer 2009
ICA•RDI on the Lunenburg waterfront with the Zwickers, Adams and Knickles
The International Zone The Naming of the Lunenburg Waterfront
before "Zwicker Building" signage & ICA•RDI bunker's new roof, spring 2009
ICA•RDI signage was on the ICA•RDI bunker before the “ZWICKER & Co Ltd” signage appeared on the building next door. the ICA•RDI bunker signage painted out |
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Heritage as Culture gets exaggerated in Nova Scotia where mythologies are sustained and perpetuated by Governments’ Public Cultural Funding Revenues that prioritize Heritage as tourist entertainment over Current Art. What if the majority of this revenue was not siphoned off into the "Tourism Industry" on projects like the Bluenose II, but instead disseminated to individual artists and small arts & cultural groups in Nova Scotia?
Raising the UN Flag and ICA•RDI signage The International Zone on the Lunenburg waterfront. ICA•RDI is the first to raise the UN Flag on the Lunenburg waterfront.
Neighbourly Benediction, Peace on Earth, Happy New Year - limited edition postcard print from my apartment Calgary, Alberta, December 2001 
"CFA" - Come from away
2001 - At that time I taught in Calgary September through April each year, but summers I would always return to the south shore of Nova Scotia. So regarding the ICA•RDI idea, it wintered out west from 2001 to 2007 becoming active again each summer. The winters 2007/08 and 2008/09 were spent in Halifax working at the Khyber as Artistic Director, but again in the summers ICA•RDI actions occurred in Lunenburg. ICA•RDI has remained on the south shore of Nova Scotia since the winter 2009/10, which was spent at Dawson House, Bridgewater and since then, winters 2010/11 to the present, ICA•RDI has occupied the first floor of a heritage house on King Street, Bridgewater where it continues the ongoing promotion of the ICA•RDI proposition for Lunenburg. |
The International Zone, Reversed Panorama "unnamed"
ICA•RDI/Lunenburg As Figure/Ground Relationship An ICA•RDI Bunker Levitates Over The Lunenburg Waterfront 
Lunenburg Academy
ICA•RDI early development: The proposition was first conceived in 2001, with the first draft proposal presented at a formal meeting with Lunenburg Academy officials, that took place at the Lunenburg Academy summer 2002. The proposition in its early stages was developed with the assistance of Ian Murray, Pictou/Toronto artist, David Jones, Halifax art consultant and Iain MacLeod, Halifax writer. ICA•RDI was Incorporated as a Nova Scotia non-profit Society 2009 
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While working at the Khyber in Halifax I lived at the corner of Birmingham Street & Spring Garden Road second floor studio. Moving in, I always travel with my file boxes, they contain my fetishized diary.
Dawson House, Bridgewater 
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with my files... - Vancouver B.C. July 5, 1996
ICA•RDI superintendent, studio/office @ Dawson House Video @ Dawson House Winter in the woods - ICA•RDI studio/office 2009 - 2010 |
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White Shirt & Tie Wall (for Garry), ICA•RDI Dawson House studio, 2009
I use to work at the Khyber as Artistic Director, to give a sense of professionalism to the position I wore a white shirt and tie. So every time I visited a 2nd hand clothing store I would purchase one or two 100% cotton white shirts and ties. The White Shirt & Tie Wall (for Garry) is 27 of the purchases that I made and wore while working at the Khyber. |
totally moved out of the Dawson House studio spring 2013
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King Street, Bridgewater
King Street, Bridgewater, Art's Birthday, January 17, 2012
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King Street, Bridgewater, Art Administrations' Birthday, February 19, 2012
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King Street, Bridgewater, winter 2012 - 2015
ICA•RDI Residency - Flags, summer 2012
ICA•RDI Artist-in-residency, summer 2014/2015 Work the ICA•RDI claim - Artists As Gold Diggers - south shore of Nova Scotia next summer, if interested write ICA•RDI, Box 99, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada, B0J 2C0 for more information 
ICA•RDI Intro Levitation Master Classes, summer 2015
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ICA•RDI Residency - Pirate Ladders (Triptych), summer 2013
Artists As Gold Diggers, summer 2014
ICA•RDI Artist-in-residency, summer 2015 ICA•RDI/Lunenburg As Figure/Ground Relationship on containing heritage: the new environment always encompass the old - McLuhan ICA•RDI Intro Levitation Master Classes 'ICA•RDI Intro Levitation Master Classes' on Crescent Beach, South Shore Nova Scotia, August 2015. Crescent Beach is chosen as the site for this R & D, because the ICA•RDI Embassy (Camera Obscura / Art Chamber / Studio Office) can be installed right on the beach, Crescent is a “drive-on” beach, vehicles are allowed on this beach. ICA•RDI plans to conduct ‘Intro Levitation Master Classes’ next summer on Crescent Beach… sunny day, lay back on your beach towel, sink into the sand and concentrate… sign up soon, limited enrolment. Bluenose II Rebuild Levitation Lunenburg Heritage Levitation R & D - ICA•RDI Summer Program 2015 |
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ICA•RDI @ Town Hall - Status of the Artist - August 11, 2015 Lunenburg Town Council Meeting
Agenda item 6.(b)(ii): Civic laws & code re. “Home-based business…”
Agenda item 6.(b)(ii): Civic laws & code re. “Home-based business…”
ICA•RDI Proposition
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International Movements that had their beginnings in small town Nova Scotia, e.g. :
- The Pugwash Conferences, Pugwash, Nova Scotia - International Peace Movement
- The Coady Institute, Antigonish, Nova Scotia - International Co-op Movement
- ICA•RDI, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia - International Artistic Freedom Movement (Status of the Artist)
