Document: An Invitation to An Infiltration

Jonathan Middleton

Jonathan Middleton is an artist and curator based in Vancouver. His practice examines the relationships between language, failure, and the structure of comedy. Middleton has collaborated on a number of quasi-institutional projects since 1991, including the Sheep Are Mammals Too Association, and the Bodgers and Kludgers Co-operative Art Parlour. His artwork has been exhibited in Vancouver at the Western Front, Or Gallery, and Tracey Lawrence Gallery, and in film festivals across North America. He has curated and co-curated projects at the Western Front, Skol, Montreal; Consolidated Works, Seattle; Parasite, Hong Kong; Sparwasser HQ, Berlin; and West Space (Melbourne). He is a founding member of the Fillip Review, and has been the Director/Curator of the Or Gallery since 2007.

Monument to the Gallery Worker, 2010
Documents of a performance: Graphite, wood, metal, synthetic rubber.
Monument to the Gallery Worker, 2010Documents of a performance: Graphite, wood, metal, synthetic rubber.
Cannibalism, 2010Vinyl lettering
Strange, the First TIme I've Known a Piano with Four Legs, (Hey! I Keep Fallin' Down), 2010New Exhibition title, and its means of dissemination
Proposal for the renaming of An Invitation for an Infiltration based on dialogue from the Goon Show episode Napoleon\\\\dimensions variable
Record of the Undead, 2006Installation view at Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Photo: Jesse Birch
Type Experiment 1 (Canada backwards, British Columbia backwards), 2009dimensions variable