Œuvre d'art public

Lookout

Noel Best & Christos Dikeakos, Lookout, 1999. © Marc André Brouillette
Noel Best & Christos Dikeakos, Lookout, 1999. © Marc André Brouillette
Noel Best & Christos Dikeakos, Lookout, 1999. © Marc André Brouillette
Noel Best & Christos Dikeakos, Lookout, 1999. © Marc André Brouillette
Noel Best & Christos Dikeakos, Lookout, 1999. © Marc André Brouillette
Noel Best & Christos Dikeakos, Lookout, 1999. © Marc André Brouillette
Noel Best & Christos Dikeakos, Lookout, 1999. © Marc André Brouillette
Noel Best & Christos Dikeakos, Lookout, 1999. © Marc André Brouillette
Location:
Marinaside Crescent, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Artwork creator(s): 
Best, Noel (architecte de profession); Dikeakos, Christos (artiste de profession)
Text author(s): 
Best, Noel (architecte de profession); Dikeakos, Christos (artiste de profession)
Collaborator(s): 
Blaser, Robin (poète)
Installation year: 
1999
Remarks on location: 

Centre-ville, False Creek, rive Nord sur la digue, à l’Est de la rue Davie

Description: 

Cette installation sculpturale composée de deux pavillons au toit de verre. Le toit elliptique de chaque pavillon est soutenu par deux parois en acier inoxydable avec silhouettes découpées en formes industrielles et naturelles. Un deuxième volet de Lookout est une grille avec des panneaux de verre en porte à faux. Les panneaux sont inscrits avec des mots sablés, écrits spécialement pour ce site, en consultation avec le poète Robin Blaser. À mi-chemin entre les deux pavillons, des découpages d'images sont inscrits dans l'allée en béton. De plus, les artistes ont placé 13 chaises en bronze sur le site.

Text of the artwork: 

Installation 1.«abri»


MUDFLATS EXPO
INDY BUSHLAND
“HOLE IN BOTTOM”
IS “SKWACHAYS”
STURGEON SOLE
BEEHIVE BURNER
SLOP & SHALLOW
HARBOUR SEALS
CANRON & V.I.E.W.
WOODPIPE TANK
CRAB SHIPWORM
SMELT FLOUNDER
SLEEPING CARS
ROUNDHOUSE
A RED CABOOSE

Installation 1. Balustrade. Texte incomplet. Lecture aléatoire


MARSHLANDS

TIDAL FLATS

ALL FILLED UP

SEA GRASSES

CRAB

ALL BUILT AND ALL REBUILT

[…]LUMBER CO. YARDS

THINGS LEAVE

[…]RD MASTER

[…]TRAIN

Installation 2. «abri»


ASPHALT LUMBER
OILER COOPER
BLACKSMITH CPR
YARDS SQUATTER
BOAT BUILDER
WATCHMAN SAW
WHEEL PIT COAL
SHED TAR DIPPER
SALMON COD ELK
DINING CARS
“ACRES OF DUCKS”
TOWN AND MILL
HOUSES PACIFIC
OCEAN FLOATING
DOCKS & PILING

Installation 2. Balustrade. Texte incomplet. Lecture aléatoire


TIME AND TIME AGAIN

TWO
OR
THREE

PLACE
OF…

LABOUR…

GREEN
WHITE AND
RED

DOGWOOD

Text theme: 
Industrie, flore et faune
Artwork theme: 

Cultures locales (autochtones et non-autochtones), hommage au site

History: 

Proposition du projet «Lookout» est soumise par Dikeakos et Best au concours d’art public (Ville de Vancouver) en 1998. Œuvre commandée par Concord Pacific Group dans le cadre du programme d’art public de la Ville de Vancouver (Private Development Program). Construction en cours en 1999. Inaugurée le 15 juin 2000.

Note(s): 

Discours de l’artiste: "…As a public quay and access way, Marinaside Crescent is the site of a deep native and non-native knowledge, memories and history. We wanted our work to act as a 'marker' that would reflect the events and cultures of this neighbourhood and, as well, be 'of our time' and of the future. … Lookout is meant to be many things: - a shelter from rain - a viewing portal, an archway - a framing device - a 'light projector' that recalls the activities that have occurred here since human occupation - a celebration of a place."

 

• Mécénat d’entreprise Concord Pacific Group Inc.

 

City of Vancouver (2009). City of Vancouver Public Art Registry.

< http://app.vancouver.ca/PublicArt_Net/ArtworkDetails.aspx?ArtworkID=64&Neighbourhood=&Ownership=&Program= >

Propriétaire(s): 
Ville de Vancouver
Document(s): 

Christos Dikeakos, Noel Best : Lookout

Brayshaw, Christopher (2001).  Christos Dikeakos, Noel Best : Lookout. vol. 79Vancouver : Christos Dikeakos

Art on the street: it comes in all shapes and sizes. So does its audience. Judith Mastai looks at several recent major exhibitions of public art in Vancouver and asks: who is it for, and why?

Mastai, Judith (2000).  Art on the street: it comes in all shapes and sizes. So does its audience. Judith Mastai looks at several recent major exhibitions of public art in Vancouver and asks: who is it for, and why?. Canadian Art. vol. 17, no. 4, p. 60