The Roerich Symbol brings together the idea of nature and culture.I am using it in my garden piece as a temporary plant installation because it signifies protection. Used in WWII to prevent aerial bombing, this symbol is the cultural equivalent…
'Heart of Reeds' by Chris Drury ***** EXHIBITION CATALOGUES - Manières d'agir pour demain: Environ(ne)ment: Approaches for Tomorrow. Gilles Clément and Philippe Rahm. - Arch. Andy Goldsworthy and David Craig. - Song of the Earth. Mel Gooding and William Furlong.…
Sprout Out Loud! is an on-growing gardener's ensemble that seeks to support and develop the relationship between residents and the land around them.Our current project — the Roerich Garden — is a site-specific earthwork located in the Maguire Meadow, one…
The Roerich Garden is a temporary community-collaborative earthwork. It was created in November 2007 to oppose the 9M$ development plans in the Mile End. The arrondissement du Plateau-Mont-Royal plans involve extending St-Viateur further east towards Henri-Julien, expropriating and demolishing several…
Photo by Nick Thayer'comBATTONS' Street performance on Ste-Catherine and Bishop, Outside the Dep't of National Defense. Mtl, March 2007.
photo by John Naccarato*****The focus of this paper's inquiry is in the connection of art to the environment and its multiple living systems. In studying specific artistic groups and individuals who integrate a response to land into their practice, I…
photo by Melissa Campbell'Taste the Source (while supplies last)' Corner of Mackay and Ste-Catherine, Mtl, Nov'06.An anonymous freshwater mermaid makes a rare appearance amid bustling people legs, offering water samples from her favourite endangered rivers and lakes of various regions…
****photo by Marc VincentI just recently installed a large grass tapestry outdoors beneath a city viaduct in Montreal on an abandoned lot occupied by an artist-run centre named Dare-Dare (www.dare-dare.org). It was composed of a patchwork of burlap coffee bags…
*****I watched a documentary film yesterday called 'TableLand', which was being showcased as a part of Pop Montreal's yearly movie series: For more info: http://www.p1-productions.com/tableland.html. The movie's focus was on small-scale food production, and the leaders of the movement towards…
'Home Free' by Diane Cox*****- Viktor Papanek ('Design for the real world') (Friends with Buckminster Fuller. Wrote manifesto calling on designers to quit profit seeking to design simple things that people need).- Janine Benyus (Book called 'Biomimicry'. About mimicking biological…
***** Project Synopsis: This will be an academic paper, so I plan to do research and writing over the entire academic year on artists working with land. The first part of the semester, leading into mid-Decemebr will consist mostly of…
ART*LIFE: nature.body.community; Intentions are clarifying around my theme for the paper now, as I consider my motivations for my performative/visual art. For the last year, I've been driven to bridge mediums in my art practice as I explore a way…