Idea Art Seminars - TBA - all master class research & development seminars are organized by & for professional artists but open to the general public 




                ICA•RDI/Lunenburg As Figure/Ground Relationship
                    on containing heritage: the new environment always encompass the old
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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.
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Bluenose II Rebuild Levitation
Heritage versus Current Art - heritage (“poor project management”) receive disproportional amount of support annually from the Nova Scotia Government's Cultural Funding Budget.  Re. Lunenburg Heritage funding: 20+ million to rebuild a "heritage" fishing schooner, 7.5 million to rebuild a "heritage" church, plus other heritage funding e.g. Fishing Museum, Lunenburg Academy, Lunenburg Waterfront Development, etc.













'Old School' Lunenburg Heritage Levitation
Lunenburg Heritage Levitation R & D - ICA•RDI Summer Program 2015


A few empirical levitation investigations:
an early attempt at levitation



















Marianne Levitates into the Frame at Le Louvre (2010)
(banned on Facebook, February 2015)









beach levitation sand pit as Faraday Cage


ICA•RDI LEVITATION INVITATION: Crescent Beach, Nova Scotia, last weekend in August bring your levitation R&D (devices and techniques).
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Coup d'etat by Artists - Thematic Exhibition for Lunenburg proposition

ICA•RDI Thematic Exhibition for Lunenburg - "Coup d'etat by Artists", summer 2015
Harper's government has moved Canada to the right. Where is the left in Canada? Where are Ottawa's "young revolutionaries"? Perhaps the revolution has to begin in the Provinces, or perhaps here in Lunenburg with the overthrow of the local status quo, a coup d'etat by artists.

Heritage/Current Art Dialectic
Using the majority of Provincial Cultural Funding for heritage tourism (e.g. Bluenose II & Nova Star boondoggles) rather than supporting Current Art Research & Development has gone on too long in Nova Scotia.  The “Ivany Report” suggest Nova Scotia break down the walls of entrenched paradigms.

The Lunenburg waterfront as beachhead...   view ICA•RDI Proposition for the Lunenburg waterfront.



Status of the Artist - Thematic Symposium for Lunenburg proposition 2016

ICA•RDI Congress:  Art After Situational Aesthetics & Institutional Critique