Cultural Olympiad | CODE.lab

Submitted by Dina Tracy on Mon, 2010-02-01 14:13
“Whoo” by Karen Garett-De Luna
Friday, February 5, 2010 - 9:00am - Sunday, February 21, 2010 - 5:00pm

In the Fall of 2009, while Emily Carr prepared to host CODE Live, students in a directed studies course with Emily Carr’s artists-in-residence Jer Thorpe and M Simon Levin considered the implications and opportunities of observing, and being observed, in one of the most photographed locations in the city. During the 2010 Games, Granville Island, already a photo-saturated environment, will be shot from every angle: images from tourists’ cameras and cell-phones mix with surveillance and media images to document every moment from every conceivable perspective.

The product of this residency and months of dialogue and research with students from across Emily Carr programs, CODE.lab is a publicly-sited art project that asks visitors to consider questions of surveillance as they are met with a set of performances, constructions and interventions on the Island.

CODE.lab
February 5 to 21, 2010
Opening Reception | 6-8pm, Thursday, February 4, 2010