Dave Dyment | Pop Quiz

Dave Dyment [Emily Falvey, Lucy MacDonald, Geordie Miller]

Pop Quiz

Sackville, Canada: Owens Art Gallery, 2019

16 pp., 23 x 15 cm., staplebound

Edition size unknown

A booklet published on the occasion of a solo exhibition showing of the video (and bookwork) Pop Quiz, a project which collects every question from every lyric in my music collection. This slim volume features a foreword by Director Emily Falvey, a text by curator Lucy MacDonald and an interview conducted by poet Geordie Miller (whose questions also come from pop lyrics).

Pop Quiz was presented at the Owens Art Gallery in January of 2019. The three-hour work played on a continuous loop inside the gallery during opening hours, and on the exterior of the building in the evenings. 

“Jan Peacock once described Dave Dyment’s practice as “weird rigor” and his project Pop Quiz is a brilliant example of what she may have meant. Combining a playful interest in pop culture with a commitment to process-oriented creative strategies rooted in structured repetition, the project a restrictive formula  - every question from every song in the artist’s music collection - and uses it to generate a peculiar, at times poignant narrative of perplexity, doubt and yearning.”

- Emily Falvey, forward