Tableau Vivant
1995
Gallery SAW, Ottawa, Canada
Supported by Gallery SAW, Ottawa, Canada. A site specific piece where invitations were issued to the patrons of the National Gallery Canada and the Ottawa Art Gallery to attend the opening of Tableau Vivant: Another Piece of Fine Art by Jim Grant. Drinking champagne, and eating canapés, the patrons viewed a large steel dumpster placed in a car park. Images filmed on security cameras were displayed on a bank of monitors located on a busy city intersection.
Funding: Gallery SAW, Ottawa, Canada
View of monitors located on busy intersection in the centre of Ottawa, Canada
View of steel dumpster, placed in carpark near the National Gallery of Canada
Waiter serving champagne to invited guests
Film still from monitors
Waiters serving champagne and canapés