Dissonance Studies, Keith Langergraber, dimensions variable; kit bashed models, 3D printing, spray foam, wood, crystals and acrylic paint; 2021; photo: Thomas Nowaczynski
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Exhibition Catalogue
The Overburden: Geology, Extraction and Metamorphosis in a Chaotic Age catalogue is designed by Keiko Lee-Hem, produced by Hall Printing, and features an essay by exhibition co-curator Genevieve Robertson.
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@ Oxygen Art Centre
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Dissonance Studies, Keith Langergraber, dimensions variable; kit bashed models, 3D printing, spray foam, wood, crystals and acrylic paint; 2021; photo: Thomas Nowaczynski
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Dissonance Studies, Keith Langergraber, dimensions variable; kit bashed models, 3D printing, spray foam, wood, crystals and acrylic paint; 2021; photo: Thomas Nowaczynski
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Dissonance Studies, Keith Langergraber, dimensions variable; kit bashed models, 3D printing, spray foam, wood, crystals and acrylic paint; 2021; photo: Thomas Nowaczynski
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Dissonance Studies, Keith Langergraber, dimensions variable; kit bashed models, 3D printing, spray foam, wood, crystals and acrylic paint; 2021; photo: Thomas Nowaczynski
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Tusks, Tara Nicholson, dimensions variable, 100 pieces, raku and pit fired porcelain, 2021, photo: Thomas Nowaczynski
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Tusks, Tara Nicholson, dimensions variable, 100 pieces, raku and pit fired porcelain, 2021, photo: Thomas Nowaczynski
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Tusks, Tara Nicholson, dimensions variable, 100 pieces, raku and pit fired porcelain, 2021, photo: Thomas Nowaczynski
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Rock Piece (Ahuriri Edition), Asinnajaq, 4:02 minute digital video, 2015, photo: Thomas Nowaczynski
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Rock Piece (Ahuriri Edition), Asinnajaq, 4:02 minute digital video, 2015, photo: Thomas Nowaczynski
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Mineralogues, Randy Lee Cutler, digital print, 40”x90”, 2018, photo: Thomas Nowaczynski
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MiniMineralogues, Randy Lee Cutler, small take away posters, 11” x 17” each, photo: Thomas Nowaczynski
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MiniMineralogues, Randy Lee Cutler, small take away posters, 11” x 17” each, photo: Thomas Nowaczynski
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Rock Album, Randy Lee Cutler, audio work, 2020, photo: Thomas Nowaczynski
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installation view: Overburden: Geology, Extraction & Metamorphosis in a Chaotic Age, Jun 01-Jul 10, 2021, Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson, BC, photo: Thomas Nowaczynski
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installation view: Overburden: Geology, Extraction & Metamorphosis in a Chaotic Age, Jun 01-Jul 10, 2021, Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson, BC, photo: Thomas Nowaczynski
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installation view: Overburden: Geology, Extraction & Metamorphosis in a Chaotic Age, Jun 01-Jul 10, 2021, Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson, BC, photo: Thomas Nowaczynski
@ Kootenay Gallery of Art
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Dome, Tara Nicholson, 1.7m x 2m diameter, cyanotypes and wooden dowels, 2021, photo: Thomas Nowaczynski
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installation shot: Dome and photos, Tara Nicholson, 2021, photo: Thomas Nowaczynski
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detail: Dome, Tara Nicholson, 1.7m x 2m diameter, cyanotypes and wooden dowels, 2021, photo: Thomas Nowaczynski
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Mineralogues, Randy Lee Cutler,
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take-home posters, Randy Lee Cutler,
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Tāłtān for Reclamation 2 with projection on wall, Tsēmā,
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Tāłtān for Reclamation 2 with projection on wall, Tsēmā,
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detail: Tāłtān for Reclamation 2, Tsēmā,
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detail: Tāłtān for Reclamation 2, Tsēmā,
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detail: beartooth star ii, Sarah Nance, 2.24m diameters, quilted mylar, 2021, photo: Thomas Nowaczynski
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detail: beartooth star ii, Sarah Nance, 2.24m diameters, quilted mylar, 2021, photo: Thomas Nowaczynski
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Trilobites Above the Fog, Jim Holyoak & Darren Fleet,
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detail: Trilobites Above the Fog, Jim Holyoak & Darren Fleet, ink and lamp black on paper, 2021, photo: Thomas Nowaczynski
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Animal Bridge, Pleistocene Park, Sakha Republic, Russia; Permafrost Tunnel, Melnikov Permafrost Institute, Yakutsk, Russia; and Water Samples, Dam Site, Northeast Science Station, Russia; Tara Nicholson; editioned archival pigment prints; 2019; photo: Thomas Nowaczynski
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Nelson Batholith, Carol Wallace,
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detail: Nelson Batholith, Carol Wallace, ink and thread on silk organza, video projection of photomicrographs, 2020, photo: Thomas Nowaczynski
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What We Have Left Behind, Gabriela Escobar Ari, aerial and digital photographs, 2019, photo: Thomas Nowaczynski
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installation shot: Overburden exhibition, West Gallery, Kootenay Gallery of Art, 2021, photo: Thomas Nowaczynski
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installation shot: Overburden exhibition, East Gallery - Near Pod, Kootenay Gallery of Art, 2021, photo: Thomas Nowaczynski
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installation shot: Overburden exhibition, East Gallery - Far Pod, Kootenay Gallery of Art, photo: Thomas Nowaczynski
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Programming Documentation
CURATORS INTERVIEW / Carol Wallace
KEYNOTE / Patti Bailey, qʷn̓qʷin̓x̌n̓
PANEL TALK #1 / Documenting Change / Tara Nicholson, Carol Wallace, Sarah Nance, Gabriela Escobar Ari
PANEL TALK #2 / Speculative Imaginaries / Jim Holyoak & Darren Fleet, Randy Lee Cutler, Asinnajaq, Keith Langergraber
Marseille Tidal Gauge Aria / Sarah Nance
in-person
Exhibitions
Jun 01 – Jul 10
Oxygen Art Centre
Jun 18 – Aug 18
Kootenay Gallery of Art
Sat Jun 19, 2021
10:45 – 11:00 am
Opening words / from curators Maggie Shirley and Genevieve Robertson
11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Keynote speaker / Patti Bailey
Patti Bailey, qʷn̓qʷin̓x̌n̓ is a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation sn̓ʕay̓čkstx (Sinixt), in Inchelium, Washington and practices traditional and contemporary weaving. The last twenty years of her career were spent working as an Environmental Planner for the Colville Tribal government to develop and implement strategies and cooperative working relationships to deal with decades of impact to river communities, Tribal people, and natural resources from Columbia River pollution sources in Canada. Patti Bailey shares this story through a discussion of downstream toxicity, environmental advocacy through citizen science, and lack of corporate accountability.
1:00 – 2:30 pm
Panel Talk #1 / Documenting Change: Place-based knowledge, resource extraction and shifting climate patterns
w/ artists Tara Nicholson, Carol Wallace, Sarah Nance, Gabriela Escobar Ari
2:45 – 4:30 pm
Panel Talk #2 / Imaginaries: Speculative and embodied ways of relating to rock, mineral and mountain
w/ artists Jim Holyoak & Darren Fleet, Randy Lee Cutler, Asinnajaq, Keith Langergraber
4:30 – 4:45 pm
Closing remarks
Sun Jun 20, 2021
11:15 am
Open room
11:30 am – 12:00 pm
Marseille Tidal Gauge Aria / performed by Sarah Nance
Marseille Tidal Gauge Aria is a vocal performance composed from tide level data collected over the past 130 years from a tidal gauge in the bay of Marseille, France. The artist converted each yearly average tide level into a note within her vocal range and set the resulting atonal composition to a poem from Rasu-Yong Tugen’s Songs from the Black Moon. Sarah Nance performs the piece operatically, drawing on the genre’s propensity for magnified human emotion; the rising sea levels in the bay can be heard in the increasingly higher pitches of the aria.
1:00 – 2:30 pm
Writing Workshop / Listening to the Stones with Randy Lee Cutler
This writing workshop with Randy Lee Cutler engages with mineral specimens for the purposes of condensation and displacement. What this means is that we will listen to a collection of geological formations through a series of responses, writing genres and breathing exercises. By collapsing these approaches together, our aim is to connect with deep time, unknowing as well as those informal knowledge practices that might shift our thinking to one of interdependence in a more than human world.
2:45 – 4:30 pm
Comic Workshop / Storytelling Across Deep Time with Jim Holyoak & Darren Fleet
After introductions and a brief presentation, participants will be guided through the process of an ‘856’ writing circle, with an aim of generating spontaneous, free-associative creative writing. Selections of this will be used as material for dialogue and narration within comics, drawn in the second half of the workshop. This drawing segment of the workshop with Jim Holyoak & Darren Fleet will also include stretching, warm-up exercises focusing on mark-making, line weight and techniques for drawing comics. Please come prepared to share, with several sharpened pencils and a pad of paper.