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Ha Ha Oh No
February 8 to March 4 '00
Barb Webb resides in Toronto and is currently coordinating an interactive internet gallery for the 23rd Room Collective.
Selected Exhibitions
2000 23rd Room.org
1999 "Nasty
Girls", Saw Gallery, Ottawa
"heliozilla.com/barbsavers
1998 "Smells Like T.V.", Pleasure Dome, Toronto. "Graphic Knowledge", Womens' Art Resource Centre,Toronto. James Baird Gallery, St. John's.
1997 Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto.
1996
Window Installation, Mercer Union,Toronto.
Barbara Webb's drawings are vignettes of fantastic and imaginary scenes. The narrator is a loud mouth comic who has decided to take revenge on a culture of stuffy old boys. These drawings will be
applied to the production of a pop-up and pull-tab bookwork.
1. The two most sacred things in this life are - undoubtedly - books and trees. Only God can make a tree - but with books, His record's been less stellar, beginning and ending with
the dual stone tablets, both equally smashable.
2. There are two basic mechanisms in pop-up books.
3. The pop-up mechanism: the act of opening the book (or turning the page) causes the usually flat elements of the page to "pop-up",
become three-dimensional, little stages.
4. And: the pull-tab.
5. It must be awful to be a child.
6. Pop-up books, whether meant for children or not, belong in the realm of childhood.
7. The institution of
childhood is based on a conspiracy to keep certain types of information hidden from children. This is referred to as "protecting the innocence of childhood", and is considered to be of paramount importance. In return, childhood acts as a repository for
certain manifestations of whimsy, delight, enchantment and imagination.
8. In every box, a weasel.
--Steve Reinke--
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