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New Public Art Project in Saskatoon Features Terry Billings and Stacia Verigin
Terry Billings, a sessional lecturer in the Department of Art and Art History, and Stacia Verigin, who received her MFA from the department in 2006, have been chosen to participate in aneco: new public art. A project of the City of Saskatoon, aneco features the work of seven Canadian artists. Projects include video and light projections, multi-channel sound, sculptural installations and photography in outdoor and indoor, civic and public sites throughout the city. Curated by artist/curator, Ellen Moffat, works will be installed from October 2007 to September 2010.
Billings’ contribution, Tender, is a rear video projection installation that examines the relationship between nature and culture and the boundaries between public forms of understanding and subjective experience. It will be on display in the windows of the Travel Resources Reading Room, Frances Morrison Library, 311 23rd St E.
Verigin’s video installation Sightings 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, and 10 can be seen in the passenger waiting area of the Saskatchewan Transport Company, 50 23rd St E. Her practice is largely sculptural, with a pseudo-scientific focus on questions about nature, environment, evolution, and observation.
In addition to Billings and Verigin, who are both Saskatoon residents, participants include: Charlie Fox (Regina), Jen Hamilton & Chris St. Amand (Regina), Micah Lexier (Toronto/New York City), Wendy Peart (Regina), and Arthur Renwick (Toronto). Sites include the Frances Morrison Library, the fly tower of the new Persephone Theatre, the new Shaw Centre, the downtown Transit Mall, the InterCity STC bus depot, and the lawn of City Hall.
The curatorial focus of aneco is the evolving urban space of Saskatoon as a dynamic interface of natural and constructed factors: organic, economic and cultural elements intersect. Works explore themes of sustainability, cultural history, the body, subjectivity and collectivity.
“Saskatoon is at a juncture of growth and prosperity,” says Moffat. “Included within this growth is the blossoming of new public art projects, illustrating the community’s creativity and the city’s commitment to the future urban space. Projects in aneco participate in this process of Saskatoon’s development through animating civic and public space, engaging with new audiences, and reflecting diversity within the city.”
In conjunction with aneco and other new public art projects, a 3-day event—Exposed, a Forum for New Public Art—will bring together artists, administrators and curators from western Canada with extensive experience in public art to discuss new public art, public art policy and urban development from November 14–16. Events will be held at the Mendel Art Gallery and at TCU Place.
aneco is presented through the cooperation of: Government of Canada through the Cultural Capital of Canada Program 2006 of the Department of Canadian Heritage; City of Saskatoon Community Development Branch, Parks Branch, Leisure Services Branch, and Saskatoon Transit; Persephone Theatre; Saskatoon Public Library; and the Saskatchewan Transportation Company.
For more information, contact:
Ellen Moffat, Curator, aneco, 664-6173
Kathy Mooney, Cultural Capitals Project Assistant, City of Saskatoon, 975-2518
Billings’ contribution, Tender, is a rear video projection installation that examines the relationship between nature and culture and the boundaries between public forms of understanding and subjective experience. It will be on display in the windows of the Travel Resources Reading Room, Frances Morrison Library, 311 23rd St E.
Verigin’s video installation Sightings 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, and 10 can be seen in the passenger waiting area of the Saskatchewan Transport Company, 50 23rd St E. Her practice is largely sculptural, with a pseudo-scientific focus on questions about nature, environment, evolution, and observation.
In addition to Billings and Verigin, who are both Saskatoon residents, participants include: Charlie Fox (Regina), Jen Hamilton & Chris St. Amand (Regina), Micah Lexier (Toronto/New York City), Wendy Peart (Regina), and Arthur Renwick (Toronto). Sites include the Frances Morrison Library, the fly tower of the new Persephone Theatre, the new Shaw Centre, the downtown Transit Mall, the InterCity STC bus depot, and the lawn of City Hall.
The curatorial focus of aneco is the evolving urban space of Saskatoon as a dynamic interface of natural and constructed factors: organic, economic and cultural elements intersect. Works explore themes of sustainability, cultural history, the body, subjectivity and collectivity.
“Saskatoon is at a juncture of growth and prosperity,” says Moffat. “Included within this growth is the blossoming of new public art projects, illustrating the community’s creativity and the city’s commitment to the future urban space. Projects in aneco participate in this process of Saskatoon’s development through animating civic and public space, engaging with new audiences, and reflecting diversity within the city.”
In conjunction with aneco and other new public art projects, a 3-day event—Exposed, a Forum for New Public Art—will bring together artists, administrators and curators from western Canada with extensive experience in public art to discuss new public art, public art policy and urban development from November 14–16. Events will be held at the Mendel Art Gallery and at TCU Place.
aneco is presented through the cooperation of: Government of Canada through the Cultural Capital of Canada Program 2006 of the Department of Canadian Heritage; City of Saskatoon Community Development Branch, Parks Branch, Leisure Services Branch, and Saskatoon Transit; Persephone Theatre; Saskatoon Public Library; and the Saskatchewan Transportation Company.
For more information, contact:
Ellen Moffat, Curator, aneco, 664-6173
Kathy Mooney, Cultural Capitals Project Assistant, City of Saskatoon, 975-2518