(detail) 1994 installation. Recorded sound loop: crickets and the distant sound of 1970's sit-coms, complete with canned laughter. The room was wrapped in canvas and painted before plaster and bedroom elements were installed.
Exterior Duke of Connaught, Queen Street West, Toronto. Installation by Barb Webb
Duke-u-menta installation, 1991 . Some of the rooms above the tavern were rented by the hour. This installation is a meditation on the lives of the women who passed through this space. Plaster, metal screening, fabric and lace.
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(detail) 1994 installation. Recorded sound loop: crickets and the distant sound of 1970's sit-coms, complete with canned laughter. The room was wrapped in canvas and painted before plaster and bedroom elements were installed.
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Duke-u-menta installation, 1996. The room was a commemorative site honouring the life of Dorothy Dunbar, a waitress/healer who lived above the Duke of Connaught in the 1950s. A documentary was made following the exhibition (see below). 
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