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Zin Taylor: The Bakery of Blok.

Publication: C: International Contemporary Art
Publication Date: 22-SEP-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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ZIN TAYLOR: THE BAKERY OF BLOK

Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto

At turns haunting and hilarious, Zin Taylor's recent exhibition The Bakery of Blok explores the production and promotion of a television series about making bread in an abandoned bakery. The installation consists of a single-channel video showing several "pilot" episodes, photographs of the starring actors and a series of baking tools displayed on three plinths. Everything is for sale, either as a total package that could be bought by an entertainment industry studio, or separately, perhaps as merchandising material. The video, Eight Pilot Episodes for The Bakery of Blok (all works 2009), however, features eight remarkably unmarketable characters: all are blocks of wood, which the artist "cast" instead of...

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