January 2010 Saltwinning: Equal to or Greater Than Max Liboiron (New York City / Winlaw BC) Artist’s Statement: My artwork takes different ecological narratives to their logical extreme to create speculative spaces, futures, and relations of human-ecology interactions. I use the trope of the diorama and walk-in installations to be formally appropriate to the “world making” practice of environmentalisms. Using cast salt, water from snow and Kootenay Lake and local litter and trash, Cast Out will be comprised of a white, snow-like landscape inspired installation whose landforms will be made from cast salt and garbage. The garbage, as orgami-based assemblage, set in sparkling cast salt, will be transformed into something of worth and beauty. The last week of the show will involve viewers finishing the piece by allowing them to take their favourite pieces of the salt trash garden away with them enacting a landfill that slowly erodes into people’s personal spaces as opposed to the circulation of garbage away from people and into landfills. Max Liboiron grew up in northern Canada in a small rural community, she holds an MFA and a certificate in cultural studies from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and BFA with Distinction from Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada. She is currently pursuing a PhD at New York University in Visual Culture with a focus on environmentalism. August 2010 Smoke Signals Terrance Houle (Calgary, AB) www.terrancehoule.com Artist’s Statement: I am proposing to create a series of Photo, Performance and video works based on the research of the book “Indian Signals and Sign Language" by George Fronval and Daniel Dubois which was published in 1985. "Photographs and text describe non-verbal signals used by the Indians of the Great Plains, including more than 800 signs, smoke signals, picture writing, and the language of feathers and body paint." – book description.  The Book will serve as a reference point for a series of works I would like to develop at the residency and in the community of Nelson B.C. I am Blackfoot/Ojibway and often find when talking with many First nations people from my communities they often use signals and sign language to strengthen and animate their stories through gestures of the hands. I use to work in a gas station/ convenience store on my reservation the Kainai Nation, many of the customers would come in and tell stories to me about their daily things, or sexual exploits and even tragic stories. Through these stories they would always incorporate Hand gestures and signs to imitate people’s actions or a certain word or sexual image or body part. I will use my research to create works that use a combination of the gestures and signs to create sentences and small stories that will be humorous and tragic. I will also like to include other people from the area to participate and use some of my traditional regalia as props in the works. In the end I would like to have started a series of Photo works, a video and possibly a performance. http://www.terrancehoule.comshapeimage_1_link_0
residencies
  1. •Artist Residencies in all disciplines including visual, media, performance and theatre are available July, August and January.
  2. •Oxygen Art Centre is especially interested in supporting collaborative, cross-discipline, experimental and community-based work. We are not a commercial gallery.
  3. •Residencies include full access to an 850 sq ft studio in the heart of Nelson, B.C. Billeting for out of town residents can usually be arranged for little or no cost but is not guaranteed.
  4. •An artist stipend of $500 to $1000 is provided pending funding. Artists are encouraged to apply for their own project funding to support their residencies, travel and housing expenses.
  5. •Residents are expected to participate in some form of community activity such as studio visits, open studios, open rehearsals, lectures or public viewings. The terms of community participation will be agreed to with Oxygen Art Centre prior to the residency.
  6. •Deadline for proposals is Aug 1st, for residencies in the following year. This is a postmark deadline.
  7. •Application Guidelines
      patrick thompson, BOOM! Residency, 2008
 
 
                
 
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