exhibition • Disrupting Currents

Disrupting Currents

by: Ruth - February 16th, 2011 Filed under: exhibition, Uncategorized Add Comment

The projection “Disrupting Currents” displays ocean current patterns derived from real-time audio and other data such as measurement of current, temperature and oxygen from the nearby ocean historically rich in salmon. These dynamic interactive visualizations are visually and metaphorically “disturbed by ” by viewer presence and movement not unlike geological formations that change the course of water.

Geologically Inspired Sculptures

by: Ruth - February 15th, 2011 Filed under: exhibition, Uncategorized Add Comment

Geo Forms, polyurethane, metallic paint, steal and interactive LED lights

At the Gulf of Georgia Cannery Historic site, in the middle of the space, the five geologically-inspired polystyrene sculptures were clustered with a projection of water rings shining downwards onto the forms and reverberating out onto the wooden floor planks of the Cannery.

Multi Channel Video – Stories

by: Ruth - February 15th, 2011 Filed under: exhibition, Uncategorized Add Comment

This multi channel video reflects the non-linear and artistic approach taken towards researching salmon, the ecological and economic catalyst of Canada’s West Coast region. It presents individual stories, and a collage of video excerpts culled from the interviews with Lleanna Clark, a reflexologist who worked as a cannery line worker at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery in high school; Jim Hart, a Haida Gwaii carver; Gerald Worobetz, a chef, fishing guide and home economics teacher at a local high school; Jeff Mikus, a commercial fisherman and restaurant owner; Kathryn Ricketts, an interpretative dancer and educator; Dr. Anthony (Tony) Farrell, Professor of Biology at UBC; Una McPherson, Head Interpreter at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery, who lived in cannery housing; Neil Jensen, a sports fisherman who worked on commercial fishing boats as a youth and grew up in Steveston; and Ben and Elli Answerth, young tourists from Australia. People of various cultural and professional backgrounds were sought out to create a complicated and kaleidoscopic view of the region.