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the research mode

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became

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came out of my involvement with

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a group in vancouver

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and i don’t know whether the name we

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called it specific research i think we

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did because it was but it wasn’t

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specific it was kind of general and it

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was more again a parody of a real

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research thing

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and i decided that it would be

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interesting since one of the questions

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that has come at me about my work is but

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is it art

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is this really art that what you’re

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doing is

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banana events and things

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so it seemed like a good

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pointed question

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and

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i selected 30 images of art

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that included

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some banana art

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that arts the theme of bananas in their

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art and from classical to contemporary

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um and the idea was to

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get people to complete a form i love

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getting people complete forms i like

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designing these forms to these sort of

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research things

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and so the one side of the form

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asked them to decide is it is this image

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art or not yes or no and then to check

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whether it was because it was beautiful

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or showed skill or you know different

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qualities that you might make help you

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decide if something is art or not

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and then on the other side was the name

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and address and also questions that i

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was asking them

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what did i have on the other side i had

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a section where they i asked them to

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complete there would be a couple two or

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three images and then equals such and

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such so it was asking them to become

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involved

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um

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with

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you know creating

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creating a little bit of art and

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was much more again about

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challenging the idea of what art is

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and also

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the my art being about getting people to

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respond and interact with me

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and so

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and and of course wearing the parody my

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lab coat and my specific research and

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you know being the professor so to speak

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professor banana

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so um that was but is it art and i

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toured it in europe twice

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and

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i think i had to come to the council to

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support the first tour i don’t know

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about the second one

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and i did come up with a completed

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report on the research which of course

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was completely

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bananas what can i say

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