Steve's Vinyl, Cathy during installation process, wall-painting installation and event, Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, 2011.
Steve's Vinyl, event promotional material, wall-painting installation and event, Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, 2011.
Steve and Cathy, 1986.
Steve's Vinyl, Steve's record collection, wall-painting installation and event, Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, 2011.
Steve's Vinyl, painting the Khyber ballroom gallery, wall-painting installation and event, Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, 2011.
Steve's Vinyl, prepping the Khyber ballroom gallery, wall-painting installation and event, Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, 2011.
Steve's Vinyl, prepping the Khyber ballroom gallery, wall-painting installation and event, Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, 2011.
Steve's Vinyl, prepping the Khyber ballroom gallery, wall-painting installation and event, Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, 2011.
Steve's Vinyl, installation view, vertical coloured stripes correspond to album cover art, wall-painting installation and event, Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, 2011.
Steve's Vinyl, installation view, vertical coloured stripes correspond to album cover art, wall-painting installation and event, Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, 2011.
Steve's Vinyl, party-goers choose albums at event, wall-painting installation and event, Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, 2011.
Steve's Vinyl, party-goers choose albums at event, wall-painting installation and event, Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, 2011.
Steve's Vinyl, MC as Glenn Hughes from the Village People, wall-painting installation and event, Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, 2011.
Steve's Vinyl, party-goers choose albums at event, wall-painting installation and event, Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, 2011.
Steve's Vinyl, party-goers leave their mark at Steve's Vinyl, wall-painting installation and event, Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, 2011.
Steve's Vinyl, party-goer with album, wall-painting installation and event, Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, 2011.
Steve's Vinyl, detail of each album's stamp: From the Collection of Stephen Busby, wall-painting installation and event, Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, 2011.
Steve's Vinyl, party-goers at event, wall-painting installation and event, Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, 2011.
Steve's Vinyl, party-goers at event, wall-painting installation and event, Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, 2011.
Steve's Vinyl (2011)
The Steve’s Vinyl book (2013) documents this event. Currently out of print, previously available at Printed Matter, New York.
Steve’s Vinyl was an art installation and performance giveaway of the nearly two-hundred albums left to me by my late brother, Steve Busby (1953-1993). It took place at the Khyber Centre for the Arts. Steve was a gay man who died of AIDS-related illness. I planned Steve’s Vinyl for Dec 3, 2011 to coincide with World AIDS Day.
I had kept these record albums in cardboard boxes, neither playing nor looking at them. After 18 years, I orchestrated this celebration to activate the albums, dispersing them and turning the weight of this collection into lightness. It was a tribute to Steve and his varied tastes in music, men, and identities.