Nuit Blanche 2017
Here you can see the BMO ATMs in the background. It was jarring and actually rather perfect. I hope it was a purposeful takeover. I hope most visitors also were aware of this.
Manitowapow, speaking to the moon
by Julie Nagam - Winnipeg, Metis / Canada
If you could speak to the watchful face of the moon, what would you say? In the wake of the current global climate crisis Nagam transmits warning beacons to signal and call out the state of today’s shifting environment. Complicity in contemporary issues and human mortality come to the forefront, recalling unclean drinking water, chemically-contaminated lakes, extractions of oil, metals, and gas, and the rapid melting of the polar ice caps.
Presented as an audio-visual installation of media-based sculptural domes made from harvested willow saplings, these half-moon geoforms radiate and pulse from inside First Canadian Place. Projected on the wigwam-informed structures are depictions of landscapes both in their natural environment and altered states of industry and destruction caused by human impact. Recordings of ambient outdoor sounds linked to the land compliment the sculptures, creating a 360-degree experience.
This installation expands Nagam's media explorations with domes and a mediated experience of the land.
Nuit Blanche 2017
Here you can see the BMO ATMs in the background. It was jarring and actually rather perfect. I hope it was a purposeful takeover. I hope most visitors also were aware of this.
Manitowapow, speaking to the moon
by Julie Nagam - Winnipeg, Metis / Canada
If you could speak to the watchful face of the moon, what would you say? In the wake of the current global climate crisis Nagam transmits warning beacons to signal and call out the state of today’s shifting environment. Complicity in contemporary issues and human mortality come to the forefront, recalling unclean drinking water, chemically-contaminated lakes, extractions of oil, metals, and gas, and the rapid melting of the polar ice caps.
Presented as an audio-visual installation of media-based sculptural domes made from harvested willow saplings, these half-moon geoforms radiate and pulse from inside First Canadian Place. Projected on the wigwam-informed structures are depictions of landscapes both in their natural environment and altered states of industry and destruction caused by human impact. Recordings of ambient outdoor sounds linked to the land compliment the sculptures, creating a 360-degree experience.
This installation expands Nagam's media explorations with domes and a mediated experience of the land.