Public Artwork
Intersections: Places, General Regulations, and Memories
Location:
Campus Mount Saint Vincent University , Bedford Highway, Halifax, NS, B3M 2J6 , Canada
See map: Google Maps
Artwork creator(s):
Creates, Marlene
Text author(s):
Creates, Marlene
Installation year:
1998
Remarks on location:
Formerly Mount Saint Vincent Academy
Description:
This is a series of eight markers installed on the campus of what is now Mount Saint Vincent University, formerly Mount Saint Vincent Academy, founded in Halifax, Nova Scotia by the Sisters of Charity 125 years ago. The markers present two kinds of text superimposed over black & white photographic images. Each marker includes an excerpt from one of the Mount's official publications—either an early Academy prospectus or the current University calendar (the General Regulations in the title), intersecting with a quote (the Memories) from a conversation I had with a present-day student at the University or one of the elderly Sisters of Charity who were once students or teachers at the Academy.
Dimensions:
Height:
0.56m
Width:
0.74m Note(s):
"I took the photographs of the locations (the Places) referred to in their anecdotes during 1997-1998. The markers are installed in relation to these same locations (for example: beside a parking lot—formerly the site of the rhubarb patch; at the entrance to the campus near the train tracks along the shore—the former sea-bathing spot, etc.) In this way, the institutional voice intersects with the first-person memories, and both of these intersect with images of the locations—which, of course, will continue to change and offer a visual comparison to what is (and will be) there.
Marlene Creates's Web site (2008) Marlene Creates.
<http://www.marlenecreates.ca/works/1998intersections.html>
Artist's biography:
marlene creates
Owner(s):
Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax Document(s):
Syndicate
