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Biographical note
Knowles Eddy Knowles formed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, during the winter of 2004, and have continually investigated the rudiments of collaboration with an attentiveness towards the dynamic forces of space, context, the serendipity of chance circumstance, and unforeseen contingencies. They make productive what most would deem a digression.
In 2004, Robert Knowles (b. 1983, Manchester, UK), Michael Eddy (b. 1981, New York, NY), and Jon Knowles (b. 1980, Oshawa, ON) dispersed to various points on the globe, and are now currently based in London, Beijing, and Montreal.
As a collaborative group they work remotely from each of their own particular localities, and periodically come together to produce exhibitions, commissions, research projects, performances and other discursive situations in venues such as: Informal Architectures residency and publication (Banff Centre), TENT (Rotterdam), Portikus (Frankfurt), Apex Art (New York City), Presentation House Gallery (Vancouver), Form/Content (London, UK), Fabbrica del Vapore (Milano), Centre de Recherche urbaine Montréal (MTL), R O O M (London, UK), Museo Studio del Tessuto (Como), Vitamin Creative Space (Beijing), Next Wave Festival (Melbourne), Galérie Séquence (Chicoutimi), Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Montreal), and Plug In ICA (Winnipeg).
Knowles Eddy Knowles' piece stems from a project we have been working on for several years, and which has taken the form of an archive of art works and documents, a series of performances and sculptures, and a perpetually unrealized curatorial proposal. Plainly stated, it is about the culture of tobacco consumption. Meanwhile, it also folds in some of the specific and real anecdotal aspects we have experienced around these various iterations, which in turn can be observed as generic art world relations (artists, institutions, and their gatekeepers).