Public Artwork

Uncoverings

Jill Anholt & Susan Ockwell, Uncoverings, 1998
Jill Anholt & Susan Ockwell, Uncoverings, 1998
Jill Anholt & Susan Ockwell, Uncoverings, 1998. © Marc André Brouillette
Jill Anholt & Susan Ockwell, Uncoverings, 1998. © Marc André Brouillette
Jill Anholt & Susan Ockwell, Uncoverings, 1998. © Marc André Brouillette
Jill Anholt & Susan Ockwell, Uncoverings, 1998
Jill Anholt & Susan Ockwell, Uncoverings, 1998. © Marc André Brouillette
Jill Anholt & Susan Ockwell, Uncoverings, 1998. © Marc André Brouillette
Locations:
Vancouver, BC, Canada
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

Propriétaire(s): 
City of Vancouver
Document(s): 

Projects. Uncoverings

Anholt, Jill (2008).  Projects. Uncoverings. <http://www.jillanholt.ca/projects/uncoverings> : Jill Anholt Studio

City of Vancouver Public Art Walk : Downtown Shoreline

Cole, Barbara (2002).  City of Vancouver Public Art Walk : Downtown Shoreline. <http://vancouver.ca/parks-recreation-culture/public-art.aspx>Vancouver : City of Vancouver Office of Cultural Affairs