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Teresa Tam / artist
teresa.tam@hotmail.ca
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彈蛋
Seasons End Liquidation Shop
2022
Esker Foundation Project Space
188 Receipts of ritual
memories, intentions, stories of the object being taken
Linger with Calgary Chinatown
2021
The New Gallery / City of Calgary Public Art
54 Slips neon zip-tied to green fencing
wish slips
Our Heart’s Delight Capsules
2020
Stride Gallery & Contemporary Calgary
200 two toonies
cold hard coins
2 cents cart
2019
M:ST Performative Art
124 two cents forms collected
names; 20 opinions on topics such as tradition, labour, conformity and what delights the heart; comments
an ordinary hole-in-the-wall along macleod before the railway underpass
2019
Stride Gallery
141 food order forms Collected
signatures, answers to questions regarding their preferences in mouth feel and why they eat
Trial Mode Instant Vacations
2019
EMMEDIA Particle + Wave Festival
45 visa applications Collected
photos, signatures, answers to questions regarding their sense of agency
PSEUDO CAFÉ
2018
Wreck City
167 property ownership contracts collected
signatures, initials, last 4 digits of their current debit and/or credit card
Stand-in Tourism
2018
IKG Live 2
57 vacation postcards collected
names, preferred fantasy fake vacation in the middle of winter, physical likeness
Perfect Memory: Authentic Gift Shop
2017
The New Gallery
251 Sales Agreements Collected
1 ~ 10 identities & fingerprints. names
[net.café ]
2013
Marion Nicoll Gallery
136 Printed selfies & saved digital files collected
webcam selfies, web browsing history, miscellaneous computer data, MS paint drawings