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| Curator: | Anton de Groot |
ELEVATIONS - Canada + Québec
The Elevations – Canada + Quebec PQ'15 Student Exhibition was organized by University of Calgary MFA Theatre Design candidates Anton de Groot, Jennifer Lee Arsenault and Michael Sinnott with the assistance of faculty members Patrick Du Wors, April Viczko and the Associated Designers of Canada.
Music. Weather. Politics.
In Canada, music, weather and politics are tied together only insofar as they are impossible to generalize. We cannot point to one storm and say THIS is Canadian weather. One thing that can be said about Canadian Music, Weather and Politics, is that across the country, they vary.
In Canada, music, weather and politics are tied together only insofar as they are impossible to generalize. We cannot point to one storm and say THIS is Canadian weather. One thing that can be said about Canadian Music, Weather and Politics, is that across the country, they vary.Variety is a catalyst for unification: a place to begin a conversation. How do these three sizeable elephants-in-the-room affect our art? The weather will affect artists drastically from Iqaluit to Antigonish. Music will have drastic morphologies from Regina to St. John‘s. And Politics - though we may all be able to gripe equally about funding challenges - it is the landscape that inspires us. That helps define our aesthetic, region to region. And the Canadian landscape is vast.
For every artist that finds the above statements true, there will be others that disagree. And in that difference of opinion lies tension. And within that tension lies conversation, art, and the potential for change. The work of the next generation of artists will shake this conversation. Through our work, we create the fault lines in the bedrock that spark thought, creativity, and open up fissures for new perspectives to be seen.
The Elevations exhibit speaks to this. While the landscape is vast, artists can be found entrenched within it from the Pacific to the Atlantic. And here in Prague we elevate our voices together to show a part of who we are and what theatricality means to us.
Fault Lines
A wall-to-wall installation that is part map, part geological cross-section depicting the actual land elevation from Victoria to St. John’s. Each school will have its students and designs showcased within the cross-section as a continuous fault line showcasing the next generation who will cause the ground to move.
A wall-to-wall installation that is part map, part geological cross-section depicting the actual land elevation from Victoria to St. John’s. Each school will have its students and designs showcased within the cross-section as a continuous fault line showcasing the next generation who will cause the ground to move.Totem
Displayed at the very center of the exhibit room, Totem is a collaborative group installation. Each school will be given a volume of space wherein they will create a unique section of the piece based on the PQ 2015 theme of Music, Weather, Politics. An infrastructure has been designed that will display the work; it is loadbearing and allows power for lighting. As the centerpiece of Elevations, the Totem installation will be a unified piece that shows off the varied nature of our art.
Displayed at the very center of the exhibit room, is a collaborative group installation. Each school will be given a volume of space wherein they will create a unique section of the piece based on the PQ 2015 theme of Music, Weather, Politics. An infrastructure has been designed that will display the work; it is loadbearing and allows power for lighting. As the centerpiece of , the installation will be a unified piece that shows off the varied nature of our art.