Life of a Craphead is the performance art group of Amy Lam and Jon McCurley since 2006. LOAC live and work in Toronto, Canada.
Life of a Craphead have presented work nationally and internationally, including at The Art Gallery of Ontario; and performed at many comedy shows including at the UCB Theatre, Los Angeles & New York City. They have also been artists-in-residence at the Macdowell Colony; the Banff Centre; Wunderbar, Newcastle, UK; and Flux Factory, NYC.
Musical Road
Musical Road (2007) was a project that involved Lam and McCurley dressing as construction workers and using an industrial concrete saw to cut a series of lines into the surface of Yonge Street, in Toronto. They claim that the vibration produced by cars driving over this obstruction creates music, and that thereby the work is a public service.
Drugs in Our Stuff
With Drugs in Our Stuff (2032), LOAC alienates almost all potential markets for its works by adding illegal substances to all costumes and props from past performances. Anyone wishing to buy these artifacts will have to sign a legally binding document that simultaneously acknowledges they are purchasing drugs and so guarantees they will be punished by law.
Free Lunch
Free Lunch (2007) was a project in which LOAC used money from a small grant to purchase of one of each item on the menu of a Toronto Chinese restaurant and provided free lunch for anyone who saw their classified listing or visited by chance.
Doored
Doored (2012-2015) was a monthly performance art & comedy show. Over the course of four years, there were 30 Dooreds held at Double Double Land — a venue located in Toronto’s Kensington Market — with occasional shows at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Past shows are streamable here.