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Mezzanine 2025

Two-channel video animation, silent,
duration: 4 min,
overall dimensions vary with installation

Synopsis

Mezzanine (2025), is a 3D digital animation inspired by three unidentified photographs Hubbard / Birchler discovered in the Baldessari files at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University Archives. The work reconstructs NSCAD’s now-demolished Coburg Road campus, in mid-April 1971, when two exhibitions overlapped in uncanny proximity: the final day of Baldessari’s Punishment Piece upstairs and a soon-to-open display of radio-controlled model airplanes downstairs. Hubbard / Birchler’s speculative reconstruction moves between day and night, inside and outside, staging an encounter between these unlikely neighbors —the procedural rigor of conceptual art above and the devoted enthusiasm of amateur craft below.

Credits

Major Support
Pro Helvetica/Swiss Arts Council, Zürich
Alturas Foundation, San Antonio

Additional Support
AGNS: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax
Contemporary Calgary
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University Archives, Halifax
College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin

Preview

Introduction by Andrea Karnes, Chief Curator
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth , USA.
September 5, 2021 – January 16, 2022