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Room of Fears
Room of Fears

Room of Fears

Date1995 and ongoing
Artist Michael Fernandes
MediumChalk
ClassificationsInstallation
Credit LinePurchased by the Hart House Art Committee with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisitions Assistance program, 2008
Object numberHH2008.012
DescriptionA text installation piece, with a participatory call-and-response aspect where the artist gathers emails and responses collected from ordinary people, finishing the phrase "I am afraid of...". Then transcribing the responses, handwritten using white chalk, on three rectangular blackboards/black walls, that form an enclosed box-like space.
Collections
  • Hart House Collection
Memory's Melodies
Memory's Melodies
William Wood
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The Sum of All Parts: 1. Yusra Khogali, fist raised in front of Queen’s Park after a two week encampment at Toronto Police headquarters.
Jalani Morgan
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The Sum of All Parts: 2. Hashim Yussuf of Black Lives Matter Toronto poses for a portrait after they ‘ran up’ on Mayor John Tory.
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Jalani Morgan
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Jalani Morgan
2017
The Sum of All Parts: 4. Frontline protesters at the BLMTO action that closed down the Allen Road in response to the murders of Jermaine Carby and Andrew Loku.
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Jalani Morgan
2017
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Image Not Available for Purgatorio, A Drinking Bout (Panel #2)
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Image Not Available for Title: Auto Biography (Thought and Work)
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1967...1975
Dormition of the Virgin
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Unidentified Artist
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Portrait of Fear
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Ken Lochhead
1961
Image Not Available for Fear Management (individually titled: a. Cornucopia: The Birth of the Red, White and Blue; b. Dr. Brute Shield; c. The Honeymoon is Over; d. Passion over Reason; e. Nine Lives; f. Down the Drink; g. Eyeyeye; h. The Hand of the Spirit of Miss General Idea.)
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General Idea
1987