“In November 2000, the Public Access Collective presented Being On Time, an extensive public
art project which brought ten professional artists into a working relationship with students
from Central Technical High School in downtown Toronto for a period of six weeks. With
the intention of provoking a timely discussion around the themes of technology, time, art and
education, installations were devised exclusively for the school’s Art Centre building. Conceived
as additions to the existing architecture, the installations lived unobtrusively among the student
works which permanently adorn the walls, seamlessly occupying washrooms, hallways, lockers
and even creeping into the sacrosanct domain of the teachers’ lounge. As is the nature of site-
specific installations, many of the works presented were ephemeral in nature and so particular to
the time of the exhibition that it would be difficult to imagine a life for them outside the context
of the school.” (Opening editors comments, Public 24 “Being On Time”)
Artists