Rick Gibson was born on 1951 and is a Canadian sculptor and artist best known for his performance works.
21 Facts About Rick Gibson
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Rick Gibson lived in London, England from 1983 to 1989.
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Rick Gibson received a Master of Science degree in Interactive Art and Technology from Simon Fraser University, Surrey in 2004.
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Rick Gibson exhibited the results of this work in Vancouver at the Helen Pitt Gallery in June 1978 and again in Victoria at the Open Space Gallery in June 1979.
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Rick Gibson produced a series of sculptures that explored the ethics of using legally embalmed animals and humans as art supplies.
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Rick Gibson re-hydrated both fetuses, freeze-dried them and attached them as earrings to a female mannequin head.
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Rick Gibson did his first performance piece in Reading on 4 January 1986.
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Rick Gibson walked on the High Street with a dog carrying a sign which said: "Wanted: legally preserved human limbs and human fetuses".
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Rick Gibson tried to do the same piece again in Brighton on 25 January 1986, but he was arrested and convicted of behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace.
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On 23 July 1988, Rick Gibson ate the flesh of another person in public.
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On 28 December 1989, The Province newspaper in Vancouver, Canada, reported that Rick Gibson intended to crush a rat named Sniffy between two paint canvasses with a 25-kilogram concrete block in downtown Vancouver.
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Rick Gibson said he had acquired Sniffy from a pet shop which sold living rats as food for snakes and lizards.
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Rick Gibson told a crowd of over 300 people that he had returned the rat to the pet shop from where he had rented it.
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Rick Gibson encouraged the crowd to go to the pet shop and rescue Sniffy before it was sold as snake food.
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Rick Gibson later told CBC that he had full intentions of killing the animal.
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Rick Gibson managed the installation of fourteen site-specific installations in Stanley Park during October and November 1993.
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In 1996, Rick Gibson received a research position at the Centre for Image and Sound Research at Simon Fraser University to study anaglyph images.
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Rick Gibson exhibited some of these images at the 1995 Currents exhibition in Vancouver and in Victoria, BC.
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Rick Gibson gave a talk to the International Society for Anthrozoology at Cambridge University in July 2012 about the use of live insects in art and entertainment.
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On 8 February 2017 Rick Gibson walked naked in front of the Vancouver Law Courts in the middle of winter to protest Canada's ban of genetic engineering of the human genome.
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Rick Gibson walked nude in downtown Vancouver for 11 minutes, 45.75 seconds in a light rain and a temperature of 7 degrees Celsius.