This photo series and accompanying text tracks a conversation over the course of a day between the artist and their parents. It explores the idea of how a city may benefit from urban farming, and how farming has evolved to include urban projects. The artist is interested in whether government bodies can be more supportive and promotional of urban farming.
Photos by Max Gross
The artist of this scrapbook uses the meduim to reflect on their love affair with the popular outdoor clothing brand. They reflect on the sites and stimuli which have led to their strong emotions for the brand. The work explores branding that centres around good ethics, companies that build their image around being considerate of the natural world, people and animals included.
Video by Max Gross
This is a film project created in October of 2021. It contains script, storyboard, digital film, and project summary. It is about ethical issues in the film industry, such as the adoption of unions for workers in that field.
See the film below! Along with pictures of the accompanying work…
These gorgeous pysanky eggs were created for Rebecca Johnson’s Business Associations class in 2018. They are based on J.K. Gibson-Graham, Jenny Cameron, and Stephen Healy’s book Take Back the Economy. As you can see in the following video and photos, the text and images on these eggs address taking back work, the market, property, business, and finance.
Video and photos by Max Gross
This book of poems was prepared for Rebecca Johnson’s Business Associations class in 2017. It reflects broadly on concepts behind the institution of the corporation.
Listen and watch an abridged reading of the book:
Photo and Video by Max Gross
This box and the medicines contained, were created and gathered in 2018 for Rebecca Johnson’s Business Associations course. The artist wanted to learn more about First Nation’s connections to plant medicines and the economy around them. The artist gathered the medicines on a trip to Salt Spring Island. The contents are licorice fern, juniper berries, madrone leaves and bark, grand fir pine needles, and heather flowers. The box is made of birch bark.
Photos by Max Gross
Photo by Max Gross
This project, produced for Rebecca Johnson’s Business Associations class, reflects on the common passive style of investing many of us do through mutual funds and other conventional diversified investment methods. It goes “inside the box” to look at ethical problems behind these conventional investing methods. It looks at how one can end up investing in projects that can hurt life on earth.
Inside the boxes of the artwork, the artists take you into the violent aspects of certain companies which many of us unkowingly invest in. They artists also make a pledge to begin divesting their own money from these kinds of destructive projects.
The following unboxing video is split into two parts:
Video and photos by Max Gross
This board game centres around the supernatural being Shu Shu Cum (Open Mouth) which is connected to Octopus Point by the Sansum Narrows, for Cowichan Tribes. The game repurposes the mass produced Catan board game and adjusts it with new texts and symbols overlayed on the Catan texts. I also includes a new figurine of the monster itself.
This game was made for Rebecca Johnson’s Business Associations course.
Rebecca Johnson on the project:
“This is such an interesting project. I liked the way you treated it as a palimpsest, where the traces of the old game remain visible behind/underneath. Such a nice way of keeping the new game in conversation with the old one, rather than just inventing anew. So many of the changes were thought provoking (both to reflect Coast Salish land/territory, and the story; and to shift gender). Making space of the agency of the resources is quite brilliant. Both fun AND serious at the same time, adding on the ability of the resource to either give or keep itself, as well as to require its sharing with others. This must have been so interesting to play through. And, quite a bit of work to do the modifications on the cards.
The four reflections pieces were also a pleasure to read. Each of the reflections brought something to the project (including reflections on the business of developing the direction, and playing).”
Photos by Max Gross
This PullBook was created by PIERS based on J.K. Gibson-Graham, Jenny Cameron, and Stephen Healy’s book Take Back the Economy. This project was submitted for Rebecca Johnson’s Business Associations class.
Watch an interactive two-part video of the book in action:
Video by Max Gross
