Public Artwork
Uncoverings
Locations:
Vancouver, BC, Canada
See map: Google Maps
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See map: Google Maps
See map: Google Maps
Artwork creator(s):
Anholt, Jill; Ockwell, Susan
Text author(s):
Anholt, Jill; Ockwell, Susan
Installation year:
1998
Remarks on location:
4 different sites: Beatty & Robson, Burrard & Dunsmuir, Burrard & Georgia, Burrard & Smithe (all 4 projects are flush with sidewalk, near the curb and incorporate an underground heating plant's ventilation shafts)
Description:
Four round glass and steel covers are inset into the sidewalk over the ventilation shafts of an underground heating system. They are lit from underneath at night and steam may be seen to escape around them. The words "collected/dispersed" and one other site-specific word is etched into the glass at each site. The words refer to the systems of exchange in the underground heating plant as well as the communities of exchange within the city itself.
Text of the artwork:
Collected
Memory
Dispersed
Collected
Money
Dispersed
Collected
Power
Dispersed
Collected
Visitor
Dispersed
Artwork theme:
Interrelationship between above- and underground city networks Note(s):
Budget: $60,000
Artist's biography:
Jill Anholt
Author's biography:
Ockwell, Susan
Owner(s):
City of Vancouver Document(s):
Syndicate
