“The Saskatchewan Maritime Museum Presents, La Ligue Gourmand” consists of fake artifacts, museological props, and didactics outlining (my invented) histories referencing lore of innovation. At the fifty fifty gallery, I present an unusual meal in the “museum” with the pretense of promoting flamboyance, humour, and absurdity as important stratagies to elaborate on histories true and invented.

Todd Gronsdahl is an artist from Saskatchewan working in sculpture and installation. Gronsdahl’s making is a practical act, involving repurposed materials and vernacular objects. These materials, coupled with an intuitive approach to design, lead to work with a pragmatic aesthetic, like a prototype or prop. Through the use of humour and narrative, each project emerges as an inventive allegory with colorful characters that speak to themes of hubris, distrust of power, and utopian counterpoints. Gronsdahl’s artwork is an enactment of these elaborate fictions with his sculptures, in particular, functioning not unlike museum replicas or artifacts.

I made this work in 2020 as my in person food performances were being shelved. Instead I built a 5G cell tower in the gallery and provided this tongue in cheek didactic for the sculpture.
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“A flu pandemic is as predictable as the migratory patterns of the majestic Canadian goose. However it quickly became clear that this pandemic was man-made, distributed via 5G tower and through an astronomical scale of organization, all scientists politicians the vulnerable population and community leaders all bandied to pull an emperor‘s clothes tape gag on the trusting unwitting general population of “sheep”

Generally I think conspiracy theories are fun, but it turns out that only applies to when there isn’t any real world support.