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Recreation: Queen Elizabeth Park
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Queen Elizebeth Park
Vancouver, Canada
The installation Recreation includes 10 independent audio channels spread around the old quarry in Queen Elizabeth Park, Vancouver. Each of the audio channels is a separate soundscape composition referencing to the various utilities of the site since colonization. These compositions are generated by Audio Metaphor from excerpts of text related to the moments in time. Below is the artist statement and excepts from the 10 texts.
Sounding Posts: Riverscape Routes (Echoes of the River)
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Artists: Miles Thorogood and Ruth Beer
Producer: Fraser River Discovery Centre
This interactive sculpture, like a pylon in the river that traces its flow and activity along its shore presenting the beauty and utility of the Fraser as it joins the coast and inland cultures and economies. It consists of sounds and images from Surrey Docks, Fraser River Pile driving and recorded during a Seaspan tugboat journey along the river - places that have a significant impact on the city. These auditory and visual elements provide a portrait of place.
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.
AUME (MUMEWE)
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Exhibited at the MUMEWE as part of ISEA 2013
Sydney, Australia.
