Park: Permanently dedicated, public recreation areas generally characterized by their natural, historic, or landscape features; often administered by governmental agencies.
Square: Open public space in cities or towns, usually rectilinear, surrounded by buildings, and located at the junction of two or more thoroughfares.
Garden: An enclosed piece of ground devoted to the cultivation of flowers, fruit, or vegetables.
The structure is a self-enclosed fountain, with rain curtains and a reflective pool that contains a video monitor. The video shows a variety of community members speaking their native languages and em
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Artwork creator(s):
Cassidy, Melanie; Filimowicz, Michael; Marks, Brady; Pasquier, Philippe
The installation consists of stations featuring plates engraved with quotes from Gabrielle Roy. Each monument is installed at the exact location described in the quote. Some sites also feature five ch
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Artwork creator(s):
Gaboury, Étienne
Curved wall, like a ribbon. On it, the names of thousands of BC AIDS victims have been cut out in the steel. A poem is written above.
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Artwork creator(s):
Wilson, Bruce
Two large aluminum panels. On one side, an image; on the other, text. One shows an unhappy Caucasian boy. The other, a smiling young Asian girl and an adult woman.
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Artwork creator(s):
Lum, Ken
The art project consists of two parts: large pavers cut from pillars featuring text and placed at various locations throughout the park; a centre piece of large etched black stone paver slabs placed i
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Artwork creator(s):
Metz, Jacqueline; Chew, Nancy
"Right to the City" involves three elements:1) Ten resin capsules imbedded in the ground along the pathway at Nanaimo and 41st Avenue. The capsules contain paraphernalia that might be found in some
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Artwork creator(s):
Forkert, Kirsten
Sitting proud and peaceful, this 16-foot-tall human figure is made up of characters from eight alphabets: Latin, Greek, Russian Cyrillic, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Arabic and Chinese. The sculpture is
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Artwork creator(s):
Plensa, Jaume
24 plates have been moulded into the gullies that are created by ground erosion (through the movements of pedestrians). The sentences on the plates are taken from conversations with the pedestrians.
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Artwork creator(s):
Gagné, Caroline
Installation and intervention ,
Sculpture ,
Permanent,
Exterior,
Park, square and garden,
Contest,
Random,
Concrete,
Glass,
Granite,
Slate
A semi-circle of shattered glass screens with etched leaves is visible from the street and lit at night. In the courtyard is a 4,500 sq. ft. leaf-shaped pool; situated around it are black granite seat
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Artwork creator(s):
Steinman, Barbara
Art intervention with light. Words with the dates on which they appeared or disappeared from the dictionary are mounted onto people. Words in red have been lost; words in blue were new additions&
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Artwork creator(s):
Faubert, Julie
/index.jpg "Jaume Plensa, We 2008, 2009. © Vancouver Biennale")
/index.jpg "Jaume Plensa, We 2008, 2009. © Vancouver Biennale")
