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Damien Worth’s work concerns the dying of urban centers and coming to terms with “dead spaces” in our social settings.

Friday, July 18, 2008
Corner Brook-based artist focuses on the dead spaces

Worth’s work concerns the dying of urban centers and coming to terms with “dead spaces” in our social settings.

As a memoriam to local businesses that have forcefully been “killed” by Big Box stores, Worth will be visiting select sites in Corner Brook (Broadway and West Street) that have “passed on” while dressed in funeral attire. He will perform small rites at these sites, leaving behind small clay sculpted coffins that will decay over the week. His pilgrimage will be on an elusive schedule throughout the week (July 21 – 27) as to reflect the insidious nature of urban decay.

This project is a continuation of a previous installation exhibited in 2003 in Charlottetown, PEI. This current performance serves at once as a memorial and a resurrection of the faux graveyard of the initial exhibit.