{"id":66057,"date":"2022-10-11T08:30:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T12:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=66057"},"modified":"2022-10-14T08:16:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T12:16:02","slug":"election-art-vs-art-when-artists-enlivened-a-walkover-campaign-by-a-dull-centrist-mayoral-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2022\/10\/11\/election-art-vs-art-when-artists-enlivened-a-walkover-campaign-by-a-dull-centrist-mayoral-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"ELECTION: ART vs Art &#8212; when artists enlivened a walkover campaign by a bland establishment mayoral incumbent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As far as Toronto mayoral elections go, 1982 was a snoozer. With no prominent competition, Art Eggleton was assured a second term. Utilizing his dull, amiable, centrist image, he campaigned on a platform of vague promises regarding affordable housing, keeping taxes low, job creation, maintaining social services, and reducing crime.<\/p>\n<p>Somebody had to inject colour into this race.<\/p>\n<p>Enter the Hummer Sisters, a satirical performance art trio who incorporated video technology into their work. From their base at the Cameron House, they poked fun at Eggleton and the city\u2019s political establishment and raised awareness of issues concerning artists. They called their campaign <em>ART vs Art<\/em> as a play on both Eggleton\u2019s name and 19<sup>th<\/sup> century philosopher Victor Cousin\u2019s belief that people needed \u201cart for art\u2019s sake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because only one member of the group could be listed on the ballot alongside the other 10 mayoral candidates, the Hummers adopted the name \u201cA. Hummer,\u201d with Deanne Taylor assuming that persona in public. The campaign unfolded through nightly cabarets at the Cameron House involving other performers under the umbrella title of <em>Artful Democracy<\/em>. The back room was filled with monitors depicting live and pre-recorded material. Performers might carry a camera on stage, or be in a second-floor studio and beamed to the audience via the monitors. The Hummers might appear in campaign mode, or as a variety of other characters commenting on the election.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-66061 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/10\/art-vs-art-2-600x366.jpg\" alt=\"Telidon image of back room of Cameron House\" width=\"600\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/10\/art-vs-art-2-600x366.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/10\/art-vs-art-2-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/10\/art-vs-art-2-768x468.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/10\/art-vs-art-2-940x573.jpg 940w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/10\/art-vs-art-2.jpg 1030w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Among the interactive items for the audience was a Telidon terminal. First developed in the late 1970s, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/arts\/this-canadian-dial-up-art-is-older-than-the-internet-and-was-long-thought-to-be-lost-until-now-1.4662086\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telidon<\/a> was a &#8220;videotex&#8221; service that delivered pre-internet information and graphics. The technology received a major rollout in 1981 via the VISTA program, a joint project of the federal Department of Communications, Bell Canada, and Infomart (a venture of Southam Press and Torstar), which placed 500 Telidon decoders into businesses and residences in Ontario and Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInformation providers\u201d were hired to create content, including Bill Perry, who produced <em>Computerese<\/em>, a videotex magazine covering electronic media. It was among the most popular offerings, sometimes receiving more hits than the other content providers combined. This made <em>Computerese<\/em>, along with the increasing use of videotex among local arts collectives and organizations, an ideal tool to cover A. Hummer\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p><em>Computerese<\/em> posted <a href=\"http:\/\/wmperry.ca\/telidon\/artvsart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">daily campaign summaries (now archived online)<\/a> that were viewed by remote users of the VISTA trial or on the Telidon terminal at the Cameron House. Perry received permission to use any part of the campaign, including script excerpts, for the summaries. The result reads like a notebook, containing portions of performance interviews and campaign statements.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-66062 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/10\/art-vs-art-4-600x391.jpg\" alt=\"Telidon image of TV presenter\" width=\"600\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/10\/art-vs-art-4-600x391.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/10\/art-vs-art-4-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/10\/art-vs-art-4-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/10\/art-vs-art-4-940x612.jpg 940w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/10\/art-vs-art-4.jpg 986w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The summaries include the Hummers\u2019 digs at Eggleton\u2019s ties to the establishment. In their version, Eggleton realized how lacklustre a candidate he was. \u201cI\u2019m not the smartest in the world, but I\u2019m a realist. To me the future is a beautiful blueprint and a balanced budget \u2026 no more and no less.\u201d He summed up \u201cthe pillars of urban life\u201d as \u201cPlanning. Progress. Profit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reviewing the summaries reveals moments when the Hummers turned serious. Via an \u201celectronic position paper,\u201d they promoted a policy of converting empty commercial and industrial space into co-op residences and workplaces for artists and small business. \u201cA. Hummer believes that the creation of affordable housing is an industrial priority, as well as a social right,\u201d the statement declared. \u201cThe job begins at home.\u201d When Metro Council voted to deny funding to three artistic organizations under pressure from Borough of York mayor Gayle Christie (who was offended by recent exhibitions depicting excrement and discussing incest), the Hummers urged voters to write to Metro Toronto chairman Paul Godfrey to protest. Taylor felt the lesson artists needed to learn from Christie\u2019s complaints was that funding could be cut out from under them at any moment. (In the end, Christie lost a close race to future Metro Toronto chairman Alan Tonks on election night).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-66063\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/10\/art-vs-art-5-600x384.jpg\" alt=\"Telidon message about withdrawl of arts funding\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/10\/art-vs-art-5-600x384.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/10\/art-vs-art-5-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/10\/art-vs-art-5-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/10\/art-vs-art-5-940x602.jpg 940w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/10\/art-vs-art-5.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Hummers drew mainstream media attention throughout the campaign, highlighting their promise to offer \u201c24-hour mayor service\u201d and offerings of \u201cdevilled Eggletons\u201d to hungry reporters. They also held a penny-a-plate fundraising dinner to cover their $3,000 campaign cost. It was inspired by Eggleton\u2019s decision early in the campaign to hold a $150-per-plate meal for over 900 business elites. \u201cIf he has to spend $100,000 to tell people who he is,\u201d Taylor told the <em>Globe and Mail<\/em>, \u201cmaybe he\u2019s the fringe candidate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At that same fundraiser, Eggleton made an awful joke about all of his potential competitors, observing that they should \u201cstay at home, get some rest and take Extra-Strength Tylenol.\u201d This was in the wake of several deaths from Tylenol laced with cyanide in the Chicago area.<\/p>\n<p>Despite criticism that they occasionally took themselves too seriously or failed to build bridges with other political activists, the Hummers finished second. While Eggleton captured 75% of the ballots on November 8, A. Hummer\u2019s 11,721 votes weren\u2019t shabby, even winning one poll on Ward\u2019s Island. They celebrated at the Cameron House, where mock results placed them only three votes behind Eggleton. Taylor declared the result \u201ca victory for art.\u201d She also declared that \u201cwe will act as though we were elected. We will be the ideal mayors of the ideal city. This is too important a job for the politicians.\u201d Eggleton\u2019s communications advisor Bill Marshall was spotted at the party. As for the re-elected mayor, he suggested that a deposit in the range of $500-$1,000 should be implemented to keep cranks, entertainers, and self-promoters out of future mayoral elections.<\/p>\n<p>Telidon tests continued until federal support ended in 1985. The art of the technology survived on floppy disks and videotapes, which were recovered in recent years through Perry\u2019s work, with the collection being passed on to the Art Gallery of Ontario. The <a href=\"http:\/\/wmperry.ca\/telidon\/artvsart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ART vs Art summaries can be viewed online<\/a>, and may be viewed as a prototype for how an election campaign could be covered online. Taylor remained a key figure in Toronto\u2019s theatre scene through her work with VideoCabaret\u2019s <em>The History of the Village of Small Huts <\/em>cycle, and passed away in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Summarizing A. Hummer\u2019s campaign in 1982, <em>Now<\/em> writer Susan G. Cole observed that it was an \u201cattempt to galvanize artists into the understanding that they play an important role in the life of the city and to make the ordinary citizen aware of his or her potential for art.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"\" style=\"font-family: rooney-web, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><i class=\"\">The first exhibition and sale of <span class=\"\" style=\"color: #00a3d7;\">Wm. Perry\u2019s <\/span><\/i><\/span><\/span><span class=\"\"><em><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/lostandfoundtelidonart\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #00a3d7;\">Lost &amp; Found Telidon Art of the Early 80s<\/span><\/a><span class=\"\" style=\"color: #00c7fc;\">\u00a0<\/span>happens\u00a0<\/em><\/span><em><span class=\"\">a<\/span><span class=\"\">t the Cameron House, every Thursday, Friday &amp; Saturday in November, from 4 to 7 p.m. <\/span><span class=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>All images from Bill Perry&#8217;s Telidon &#8220;ART vs Art.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As far as Toronto mayoral elections go, 1982 was a snoozer. With no prominent competition, Art Eggleton was assured a second term. 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