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Marie-Claude Langevin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:36:34 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

Belanger, Lance; Mykka, Kitty

Artwork creator(s):

Belanger, Lance

Mykka, Kitty

Text author(s):

Belanger, Lance; Mykka, Kitty

Text author(s):

Belanger, Lance

Mykka, Kitty

Installation year:

2003

Artwork description

Source: Moore, William (éd.) (2003). Shore/lines : Responding to Place. Barrie : MacLaren Art Centre

Description:

Lance Belanger and Kitty Mykka have made a deceptively simple piece that divides the path into two branches by laying out a line of stones in the middle. The 'art path' they have created has three sections, one with the stone broken into fist-sized pieces, a second of smooth stone cut lengthwise, and a third of jute bags filled with small stone pieces.

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

[ producing a re-conciliation between ... ] opposite notions and/or incompatible elements thought and action movement and position human nature and natural environment exploitation and consciousness indigenous and imposed finding a pathway through dualities walking a fine line [ producing a re-conciliation between ... ]

Text theme:

Dichotomy of nature and culture

Artwork theme:

Local geology and geography, time, history, territory, duality

History

History:

Art Exhibition: Shore / lines: responding to place, Barrie, ON, May 1-October 30, 2003 (Coordinator: Mary Reid)

Dimensions

Height:

100m

Other information

Note(s):

Commissioned in Barrie Ontario through the McLaren Art Gallery as part of their ‘City of Art’ project.

Source:

1. Sarah BeveridgeCurator, Exhibitions and Public Projects Courriel personnel : sarah@maclarenart.comMacLaren Art Centre37 Mulcaster Street, Barrie, ON L4M 3M2Tél : (705) 721-9696 Fax: (705) 735-6935 http://www.maclarenart.com Email: maclaren@maclarenart.com

Document(s):

Shore/lines : Responding to Place

Shore-lines

Shore/Lines. Responding to Place

Babylon (and the Tower of Babel)

Marie-Claude Langevin — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:51:10 +0000

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s):

McEwen, John

Artwork creator(s):

McEwen, John

Text author(s):

The Melodians

Text author(s):

The Melodians

Installation year:

2003

Remarks on location:

Rotary’s Kempenfelt Habitat Lagoon, South shore

Artwork description

Source : Moore, William (ed.) (2003). Shore/lines : Responding to Place, Barrie : MacLaren Art Centre, p. 64

Description:

A series of seven rusted metal pedestals in which the letters of the word “Babylon” are formed as interior voids. Mounted atop one pedestal is a large urn set at a tilt, and atop another is one of McEwen’s trademark images: a steel silhouette of a wolf seen in profile. Just offshore on the rocky islands is another wolf silhouette and a small sculpture of a satellite dish.

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Photo credits:

Text of the artwork:

BABYLON

Text theme:

Origins, freedom

Artwork theme:

"Inner and outer landscapes […] outside and inside […] mind and nature." (Moore 2003, p. 29-34 passim): the human relationship to nature, civilization's mark on the landscape, back to the origins of a landscape untouched by civilization.

History

History:

• 1991: Installing the first part of the work, McMichael Gallery (McMichael Canadian Art collection in Kleinburg, Ontario).

• Fall 1993: Purchased and donated to the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, from a collector in Montreal.

• Fall 1993: Exhibition: Art, Architecture and the Environment, an event in which the work was to be presented, is canceled.

• Summer 1994: Development of the work (creation of Tower of Babel).

• Spring 1996: Tower of Babel is added to the installed work.

• Walks, art in the city, from September 1 to November 24, 1996: A variant of the work entitled After Babel / A Civic Square, conducted in collaboration with Marlene Hilton-Moore, is on display at the 350th anniversary of the city Montreal. It stood at the corner of de Maisonneuve Boulevard and Saint-Urbain Street.

• 1996: Prosecution about the donation of the work (Robert and Signy McMichael sue the Ontario government).

• 2003: Shore / lines: Responding to Place, Barrie.

• A brief chronology of legal and political debate around this work is available in the exhibition catalog Shore / lines: Responding to Place.

Dimensions

Other information

Note(s):

The text refers to Rivers of Babylon, a song by The Melodians (from the soundtrack of The Harder They Come, directed by Perry Henzell, International Films, Jamaica, 1972, 110 min.)

Artist's biography:

John Alan McEwen

Author's biography:

The Melodians Official Website

Source:

Moore, William (éd.), Shore/lines : Responding to Place, Barrie : MacLaren Art Centre, 2003, 64 p.

Document(s):

Shore/lines : Responding to Place

Promenades les arts dans la ville.

Shore-lines

Shore/Lines. Responding to Place

Présences du littéraire dans l’espace public canadien - Shore/lines : Responding to Place

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Babylon (and the Tower of Babel)