Linnet Lake
Watch the video footage here The impermanent return: Photography, protected areas and the matter of Linnet Lake. This is a film still from Lake Linnet, in Waterton Lakes National Park. The film still shows…
Linnet Lake
A line in process by Jenaya Webb, an open water swimmer, anthropologist, and librarian, who I work with in parks and protected areas. This is experimental feminist praxis, fieldwork that prioritizes lake swimming as a way to explore the ‘thick description’ of embodied gestures, lines, abstraction in film and photography, the social life of rumours, and ‘swimmer’s itch’.
Digital Cultures
Fall 2017. Invited scholar, Digital Cultures and Creativity, University of Maryland. Workshop on respiration and photography with the Breath Camera. Students are part of the Seminar Fleshy Futures: Technologies and the Body.
Pup Tent Camera Obscura
Pup Tent Camera Obscura is a repurposed 1970s/80s McKinley A-frame tent modified to be completely dark inside and fitted with a set of simple lenses on one end. Inside the room the lens projects the world outside onto the walls of the room and onto hand-held paper.
Imagine Our Parks Press Release
I have been working on a collaborative project with Krista Caballero alongside invited artists Rebecca Clark, Hali Felt, Katie Hargrave, Sharon Mansur, Emily Nilsen, Ebony Rose. This week, we launch our traveling experimental installation along…
Pup tent camera obscuras
Pup tent camera obscuras. Two pup tents with knapsacks for solo trips: recovered vintage materials, darkout fabric, a set of simple lenses for close up and distant views. Tent footprint each 1.5 m x 2.1 m. Created for Imagine Our Parks, installations with selected participants in summer 2016.
Blogging at “The Perfect Moment”
Krista and I are writing about on our upcoming experiment over at Imagineourparks.org. In our first post, we write about how “The Perfect Moment” started as a tongue-in-cheek response to the US’s NEA/NPS call for…
Conduit: Open Space
Using the central skylight in a gallery as a starting point, Jamie Drouin and I direct frequencies into the Open Space Arts Society space using simple lenses, mirrors and antennae. (2011-2013).
Conduit
A modified swing-lens Kodak Panoram broken and rebuilt to reconsider the interface between time and space in photographic embodiments.
Finding Aid
An ongoing performed archive and exhibitions (2009-) documenting the productive failure of re-enactments of photographs in mountain environments of Canadian National Parks.