Get a good sleep tonight

With In/stall/ed happening all day tomorrow in McCauley from 11-5pm, you’re going to want to be feeling fine in order to explore all of the seventeen installations scattered throughout the community.

Earlier today Gig City gave a sneak peek and tale about Amy Shostak’s contribution, featuring her Dido as a living art installation:

Amy’s piece, outside the Sacred Heart Centre, 10821 96 Street, is called “My Dido, the Orator.”

Her Dido (Ukrainian word for grandfather) got a chance to read the blurb: “My Dido’s done a lot of jobs in his life. My Dido speaks Ukrainian and Spanish. My Dido loves to cook and to talk politics. My Dido falls asleep in his recliner. Ask him about these things.”

To which he replied, she says, “Amy, I’m going to kill you.”

Too late to back out now!

The granddaughter explains, “He’s very much a patriarchal figure in our family. He’s always sitting at the head of the table and talking, or in his recliner telling stories. He’s one of the more colourful members of our family. I think so, anyway, so what I want to find out is if he’s interesting to others and not just me.”

Read the rest of the interview with Amy and her grandfather here and see you tomorrow!

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