Interactive & Installation Projects

The following projects took place during the 2012 Yukon Riverside Arts Festival. Stay tuned to find out about next year's Interactive & Installations projects.

Interactive

Phone Home with SARAH MOORE: phone home is a telephone conversation between two strangers. With a map and their memories, they recreate their childhood bedrooms within Dawson's streets. There are rose-covered sheets on single beds at street corners and tables covered with lego at intersections. Views from past windows are seen in a storefront, and your stories from another place and time are situated alongside riverbeds and leaning buildings. Two rooms and their inhabitants connect to create a new landscape in an old city. Phone home is a chance to remember and re-imagine familiar spaces in an unfamiliar context and to see versions of home surfacing in unlikely places.

Ready, Set, Draw! Drawing Scavenger Hunt with JANITA WIERSMA & JAMIE ASHFORTH: Discover and draw the George Black ferry, Moosehide slide, a raven, and more! This project is a scavenger hunt in which the collected items are drawings done fast and furiously by participants of places and things in Dawson City.  All ages and drawing abilities welcome!  Maps of the town will be provided.

Dawson Daily News Open Studio with SONJA AHLERS: Catch a rare opportunity to see an artist at work. Sonja Ahlers demonstrates her artistic process using digital design and old-fashioned cut-and-paste to create engaging artist books.

Open Studio with MARGAUX WILLIAMSON: As a painter and a filmmaker, Margaux Williamson uses intuitive and conceptual approaches with her art to see if there is anything surprising or meaningful to be found in the space between her resources, interests and observations. While in Dawson City, Margaux will present some of her process work while also asking question from willing participants. She’ll be asking about people’s wildest hopes and fears and confusions, and about people’s realities.

Embroidered Portraits with MESHELL MELVIN: "It has become an integral part of my art practice, to journey with my embroidery machine out of the studio and into the community, continuing the course of public portraiture that began as a demonstration so long ago. The portraits are all embroidered contour lines, each stitched with the same coloured thread on an 8” square piece of canvas, providing a continuity to the collection and speaking to the very deep human truth - that we are all connected."

Peanuts & Crackerjack Radio with ZACHARY GOUGH: Tune into 106.9 CFYT at 1.30 pm on Sunday, August 19th for the live radio broadcast of the championship game of the Discovery Days Fastball tournament. Or better yet, come down to the ball field with your hand crank transistor and crackerjack to join Zachary Gough in calling the play by play.

Katamari Draw with LIANNE ZANNIER: This is a drawing game based on the video game of the same name. When the King of All Cosmos accidentally destroys all the stars in the sky, he orders you, to put the twinkle back in the heavens above. The only way you can do that is by rolling everything on Earth into clumps so that he can replace what's missing in space. In five levels: easy to very difficult. you must draw everything into a giant ball and that "everything" begins with simple everyday objects such as pizza, paperclips, space suits, octopuses, and moves on to more complex things such as air guitar, atoms colliding, temper tantrums and more. Drop by the drawing stations at the interactive art tent, the Dawson Daily News, or tune in to cfyt 106.9 FM from home on Saturday, Aug 18th, 4:00 - 6:00 PM to participate in this interactive drawing project live from Sackville, NB.

Installation

It's All About Relationships By ADONIKA JAYNE & MELISSA MCMASTER: The artists will construct a10 x10 wall installation resembling the form of a patchwork quilt. The elements that will go into creating it will be collected from a variety of places, similarly to the people of this town. Each artist will carefully choose objects that hold a personal sense of connection to the town. Without the awareness of the other artist’s choices, the installation will be assembled separately on either side of the structure. In this way an individualistic pattern will emerge as to each creators sensibilities and interpretation of the feeling of Dawson City.

Down by the River by SCOTT PRICE: Scott’s participation at river fest started with smaller assemblage sculpture in the interactive format.  More recently, Scott has been working in direct reaction and interaction to the environment of the Yukon River waterfront and dyke. He has scuffed out path like stairs from the 'site' down to the river, balanced 'standing' stones, and has built structures from found material along the riverfront. Scott also writes, draws, and sculpts with sand, braids grasses, and makes nests. These pieces are either bold and in your face or tucked away and may only be seen by the patient eye. Scott continues this practice along the Riverfront on Front St.

Remnants by REBEKAH MILLER: Rebekah will be installing screen-printed wings along the 9^th avenue trail. The wings of the bird are fragile but they are also symbols of power and freedom. Rebekah expresses what she describes as her own naive impulse to resurrect these birds and pay tribute to them by “mending” their wings. She uses materials that are in themselves in disrepair. Their threads hang loose and their edges are torn. This transmits the idea that this piece is not about either the success or failure of recreation but the gesture in trying to do so.

In Pursuit of the 1st Hole by JOSEPH TISIGA is a processed based installation piece presented by the Indian Brand Corporation and CEO, The Honourable Grey Owl. Intended as the “ground breaking” of a larger body of work in which IBC will create an 18 hole mini golf course, elements of which will develop as interactive sculpture and other elements will exist “virtually” as paintings, drawings, film, photographs, etc.... IBC cordially invites public consultation and involvement in this ambitiously ambivalent lunge at the 1st hole.