INTRODUCTION BY ISTVAN KANTOR Press Release Installation Photographs Performances, Sept. 1, 2005 THE BLOOD MUST CONTINUE TO FLOW is an instant exhibition which I initiated less than two weeks before the actual opening in close collaboration with director David Liss of the MOCCA. Totally broke, I asked David if I could do a yard sale of my art works in MOCCA's courtyard. Three days later I opened my weekend long yardsale and made enough money to pay my rent and other bills. This exhibition is the continuation of the initial yardsale. Conceived as a garage sale between two exhibitions when the museum would be otherwise empty and closed, the initial idea evolved fast into a monumental and demonstrative Queen West group show open to anyone for participation, presented in an anti-institutional, no curators, no rules, no jury style. With the help of Miklos Legrady in design and Napoleon Brousseau as artistic director we launched the idea immediately. But that was still not enough. There was a need to put the exhibition into a socio-political framework that opens up a much larger territory to explore. I therefore took again the initiative to add to the design a taste of blood and a sensation of riot under the flag of the Queen West community. With this move the original garage sale transformed into a final collective palyground involving a new perspective for revolutionary experimentation, for having lots of fun and of course for making tons of money. The title of the exhibition THE BLOOD MUST CONTINUE TO FLOW is not only an obvious reference to the controversy surrounding my own work but a title I plundered from an introductory essay of the infamous SENSATION exhibition that took place in London, in 1997. Welcome to the 2005 Queen West Art-Scum Garage Sale. Long Live the Best and the Worst!     artistic director: Napoleon Brousseau media disturbance: Miklos Legrady produced by Istvan Kantor and MOCCA (416)516-3688 amen@interlog.com www.istvankantor.com Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art MOCCA 952 Queen Street West Toronto On M6J 1J8 (416)395-0067 mocca@toronto.ca