Great North Development Group
January 6 - February 5, 2005
Mike Yuhasz

Opening Reception January 6, 6-8 pm

Mike Yuhasz, Receiver Station, 2003

Great North Development Group is an innovative and multidisciplinary artist’s project that employs various strategies including aspects of performance and public intervention, which serve to heighten the ambiguity surrounding the authenticity of the corporation. Through public forums and actions – regional newspapers, Internet, and the booth rental at two regional Trade Shows, where Great North was situated amongst legitimate companies – the project engages the general public outside of a traditional gallery context. Great North – a veneer of believability – while parodying and critiquing assumptions, tactics and promises of development corporations, remains illusive and explores complexities and contradictions in our relationship to the land and in the activities that signify it.

Mike Yuhasz has lived in Dawson City, Yukon since 1996 and works as Odd Gallery and Residency coordinator for the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture. He also maintains a multi-disciplinary practice, which explores and provokes a rethinking of the familiar romantic images of the North, and presents an alternative vision of our relationship to the land and the activities that signify it.

The artist gratefully acknowledges the support of the Advanced Artist Award Program through Lotteries Yukon.


Visit Great North online at www.greatnorthdev.com