Delving deeper into Debord than many contemporaries dared, Jeremy makes art with his conversation. His excessively generous energy influences alot of artists who know him I think... Significantly, he directed the Helen Pitt during the exhilarating last years of it's time on Homer St. Jeremy hosted us there for the first Intermission Collaborative Drawing exhibition and auction, July 6 2003. He continues active artist-run-center involvements, teaching at UBC and operating the RAG as interim Director/Curator. Jeremy also maintains a prolific art, text, and musical practice...
I met Jeremy at UBC circa 1998 - he'd just arrived from York for his studio MFA, and I was just leaving with my art history BA - we had a really fun and boozy music jam at his studio, and kept an eye out for each other as the years rolled on...
Notably, and well known, he held the loose helm of the Weather - Vancouver's funnest art-rock band, for a solid stretch of time in the mid 2Ks... he still continues to enliven stages with Payday Millionaire. Another renaissance-creative triple threat in our ongoing series, he entirely exemplifies the restless polymath Bachelor Machines exists to celebrate... Jeremy seems at times gifted and cursed with such surplus vitality and vision that I've sometimes seen him tremble with the energy of his cascading insights, shaken in the breadth and implications of his study's survey... Impressive cat, I enjoy this guy. Imagine you will too.
I responded strongly to this series, Missing Links: An Archive After History, presented at Xeno in January of 2004. Accompanying poster sized framed prints, Jeremy printed up a towering stack of 4x6 copies of this collage series, a repro-graphic archology of anthopology, made free to gallery-goers. I loved them, and his impressive generosity with the medium. Payday Millionaire, indeed... Having always wanted to re-present them, he's now given the go-ahead to scan my copies and show them here, compounding the mediated re-membering, on which the work comments: his riff on the aged but enduring schemata of hit me like an adze in the shoulderblades - without a word, these pictures delivered an elegant post-colonial coup-de-grace... Gladly, giddily, I reproduce and recommend their historification, again again, here...
***UPDATE*** In wishing it so, Jeremy has swiftly furnished us with the means to expand the JTodd Archive... True to form, Jeremy delivers, especially for BMorg, for the first time anywhere, a Bachelor Machines exclusive, hot from the laptop of Jeremy Todd --- "Vanity Mechanics", September 2008. The sad joke is not lost.
Jeremy Todd - Vanity Mechanics
Jeremy also recently extended invitation for contributions to his new online project The Graphic Tales of Mr. Todd & Associates Concerning the Ongoing Pursuit of Meaning & Understanding. Some cartoons by BMorganizer Steve Calvert, among dozens of others, are posted there now.
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Also a filmmaker, take steps to invite Dear Guy or the newly released Easter Everywhere to your local film festival, or order a copy for your home collection -- keep watch for screenings near you.
Jeremy writes prolifically and enigmatically, running an illustrious streak for Front magazine, and his blog Not Sent Letters...
He has worked administratively with multiple artist-run and institutional galleries in the Vancouver Lower Mainland, including the Helen Pitt and the RAG.
He produces musically as himself, The Payday Millionaire.
The Weather, were fantastic...
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