Disrupting Currents: Trading Routes (Fraser River)

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Artists: Miles Thorogood and Ruth Beer

Producer: Fraser River Discovery Centre

This interactive artwork presents the Fraser River as an important route for trade and transport as well as a poetic inspiration. Viewers mirrored in the artwork become integral with it to underscore that their actions impact the life and sustainability of the river. 

The artwork represents the river’s height derived from real-time numerical data from Coast Guard sensors situated in the hut adjacent to FRDC. It also consists of images from nearby industries as well as text from poems referencing rivers. Visitors’ movements disrupt the projected image creating new configurations, associations and meaning to highlight the dynamic nature of the river that is so central to the sense of “place” in the city’s history and the present.