Collaboration
Screen Test: Tom
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The Screen Tests are a pair of videos of canine collaborators, Tom and Sugi. The title quotes the series of films by Andy Warhol depicting close-up living portraits of his friends. As in Warhol’s works, the Screen Tests are slow-motion studies detailing minute changes of expression, and the subject’s self-consciousness in front of the camera. Each Screen Test provides a view of interspecies intimacy through the gaze of the canine looking back at the human. The viewer has an opportunity to witness the subtleties of dog perceptual sense. Each dog’s extreme concentration and steadfast observation returns the viewer’s similar attention.
Screen Test: Sugi
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The Screen Tests are a pair of videos of canine collaborators, Tom and Sugi. The title quotes the series of films by Andy Warhol depicting close-up living portraits of his friends. As in Warhol’s works, the Screen Tests are slow-motion studies detailing minute changes of expression, and the subject’s self-consciousness in front of the camera. Each Screen Test provides a view of interspecies intimacy through the gaze of the canine looking back at the human. The viewer has an opportunity to witness the subtleties of dog perceptual sense. Each dog’s extreme concentration and steadfast observation returns the viewer’s similar attention.
Bikeride
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In Bikeride, the canine point of view is presented in relation to the urban landscape of Vancouver. Bikeride is informed by the everyday activities with dogs, Tom and Sugi. The project details the canines’ actions in relation to urban geography as they run through the city beside the artist riding her bike. Bikeride emphasizes the dog as an urban animal in landscape continuously in flux. The soundtrack is composed from sounds of the city and dogs recorded during the rides.
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Aria
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For Aria Andreyev worked with canine collaborators, Sugi and Tom, to explore an archetypal Canadian landscape—Banff National Park. The narrative climaxes with Tom pictured singing a canine aria, a sonic expression of emotional connection to the environment.
Rockstar
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Canines primarily investigate the world through scent-perception. Human noses have six million scent receptor sites, while dog noses have about three hundred million. Dogs have more genes for coding olfactory cells, more olfactory cells, and the receptors in the nose connect directly to olfactory bulbs. This combination of more and differing types, and quicker connections, affords dogs an estimated million times more sensitivity to scent than humans.
Polyhedra
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An installation to transform the retail space of the lululemon lab in Vancouver. Polyhedras are representing designers coming together to connect ideas with the community of Vancouver. The Simple black lines and shapes were put throughout the retail space of the store as well as on the window. In combination takeways for the guests of the store were also printed and put on display.
This installation was a group collaboration of Thrice. Neil McMillan | Katherine Pihl | Nicola Fuller
GEVA drawings
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The GEVA drawings were made with Rhonda Neufeld between – September and December, 2010 – on early morning walks to Emily Carr to teach our GEVA 313/ Visual Art Projects: Collaborations course. There are fourteen drawings all on Revere paper, each measures 20” X 15”.
