Michael Fernandes

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Michael Fernandes is Canadian experimental artist.

Fernandes is a Nova Scotia-based artist whose practice combines linguistic and performance events catalyzed by humour. Through public interventions and text-based installations, Fernandes creates social situations that actively solicit viewer participation. His work explores the intersection of private life with public space, and the relationship between art and everyday life. Michael Fernandes is an instructor in intermedia at NSCAD University, and has exhibited and performed throughout Canada and internationally.[1]

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Régimbal, Christopher, "Whose life are we talking about anyway? Michael Fernandes' One potato, two potato...it's your life...", Fuse Magazine, 2008, 31, 44-46.

Cronin, Ray, "Who, who, who is Michael Fernandes?" C International Contemporary Art (28 July, 2005)

Horne, Stephen, "The Everyday Escapes," Third Text, winter 1997-98

Horne, Stephen, "The Everyday Escapes," Abandon Building, 11 Press, Montreal 2007

Michael Fernandes: Room of Fears and Fixing Room, MSVU Art Gallery [2], 18 March - 14 May, 2006.

Wark, Jayne and Peter Dykhuis, Michael Fernandes: Room of Fears, Art Gallery Mount Saint Vincent University (09/2006) 72 pp 23 ill. 5 x .5 in 1-894518-34-9 [3]