Life of a Craphead

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| data1 = Amy Ching-Yan Lam & Jon McCurley

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| data2 = 2006 - 2020

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| data3 = Performance, comedy, conceptual art

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Life of a Craphead was a Toronto-based performance artist duo made up of Amy Ching-Yan Lam and Jon McCurley.{{cite web|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/what-is-life-of-a-craphead-and-is-it-funny/article10568138/|title=What is Life of a Craphead? (And is it funny?)|last=Krishtalka|first=Sholem|date=29 March 2013|work=The Globe and Mail|accessdate=17 May 2013}} Lam and McCurley began working together in 2006 as a sketch comedy troupe after meeting at a zine fair.{{Cite web |title=Life of a Craphead: Fifty Year Retrospective |url=https://ago.ca/exhibitions/life-craphead-fifty-year-retrospective |access-date=2025-03-15 |website=Art Gallery of Ontario |language=en}} They continued to expand their practice which is noted for experimenting with performance, film, installation, theatre, and sculpture.{{Cite web |date=2013-12-20 |title=Life of a Craphead Has Fun with Fiction at the AGO - Canadian Art |url=http://www.canadianart.ca/reviews/2013/04/19/life-of-a-craphead-ago/ |access-date=2025-03-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220073742/http://www.canadianart.ca/reviews/2013/04/19/life-of-a-craphead-ago/ |archive-date=20 December 2013 }} They have shown widely across Canada, including at the Art Gallery of Ontario, The Power Plant, Gallery TPW, Centre Clark, Dazibao, AKA, Truck Gallery, and the Banff Centre.

Life of a Craphead was the Art Gallery of Ontario's Artist-in-Residence{{cite web|url=http://www.ago.net/life-of-a-craphead |title=Life of a Craphead |work=ago.net |publisher=Art Gallery of Ontario |accessdate=17 May 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130707152931/http://www.ago.net/life-of-a-craphead |archivedate=7 July 2013 |url-status=dead }} from January to March 2013. In April they were selected to organize and curated an artistic seminar and performance event for Trampoline Hall at the Garrison, Toronto.[http://ossingtonvillage.com/2013/04/monthly-series-trampoline-hall-at-the-garrison/ "Monthly Series: Trampoline Hall at The Garrison" by Melinda M, on April 19th, 2013"]. Ossington Village.

Every Sunday from October 29 until November 29, 2017, Life of a Craphead performed King Edward VII Equestrian Statue Floating Down the Don, floating a replica of an equestrian sculpture of King Edward VII down the Don River.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/visualarts/2017/11/03/king-edward-down-a-river-without-a-paddle-courtesy-of-craphead.html|title=King Edward, down the Don River without a paddle|last=Whyte|first=Murray|date=2017-11-03|work=The Toronto Star|access-date=2017-11-15|language=en-CA|issn=0319-0781}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/dumping-statue-in-the-don-river-a-statement-about-colonialism-performance-artists-say-1.4376266|title=A replica of this Queen's Park statue is being thrown in the Don River ... and you can watch|work=CBC News|access-date=2017-11-15|language=en}} The original 15-foot bronze sculpture was erected in India in 1922 to commemorate the Edward VII's reign as emperor.{{Cite news|url=https://nowtoronto.com/art-and-books/art/a-king-edward-vii-statue-will-float-down-the-don-river-this-/|title=A statue of King Edward VII will float down the Don River this weekend|date=2017-11-03|work=NOW Magazine|access-date=2017-11-15|language=en-us}} Toronto businessman Harry Jackman paid to have the bronze figure moved to Toronto from India, where it had been placed in storage after the India became independent in 1947. It was installed in Queens Park in 1969.{{Cite news|url=http://www.metronews.ca/news/toronto/2017/10/24/toronto-artists-are-using-a-floating-king-to-dump-on-colonialism.html|title=Toronto artists are using a floating king to dump on colonialism {{!}} Metro Toronto|work=metronews.ca|access-date=2017-11-15|language=en}}{{Cite news|url=https://torontoist.com/2014/12/historicist-here-comes-the-equestrian-statue/|title=Historicist: Here Comes the Equestrian Statue|last=Torontoist|date=2014-12-06|work=Torontoist|access-date=2017-11-15|language=en-US}}