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Roaming Tales in Regina - 2007
Roaming Tales in Regina, 2007. Mixed media collaboration at the Mackenzie Art Gallery, in the group exhibition 'Mobile Structures'.
Roaming Tales in Regina, 2007. Upturned deck, gold foil, clothes-dryer drums, ceramics, plastic fencing from a mini-golf fundraising event.
Roaming Tales in Regina, 2007. Hand-pinched, fired ceramics and raw clay, plexi-glass pedestal scavenged from 'Deep Six', the gallery's basement storage.
Roaming Tales in Regina, 2007. Thai dancing dolls, plastic fencing, pink sheers, wood frames and pottery shards.
Roaming Tales in Regina, 2007. People from the community were invited into the space to make any forms or marks they wished.
Roaming Tales in Regina, 2007. They were asked to leave whatever they made somewhat unfinished as an open-ended invitation to the next maker.
Roaming Tales in Regina, 2007. Gallery staff, patrons, collectors, children, students and faculty of the University of Regina participated in the process.
Roaming Tales in Regina, 2007. People from the community brought in personal objects to trade, to transform and to incorporate into the space.
Roaming Tales in Regina, 2007. Charlene Smoke, a teen from St. Luke's School, hand-painted a medicine wheel and positioned it high in the space.
Roaming Tales in Regina, 2007. Discarded vinyl lettering from past gallery exhibitions was used to mark objects and walls.
Roaming Tales in Regina, 2007. Theatrical props and ceramic grid structures became interlocking parts, suspended.
Roaming Tales in Regina, 2007. Over six days, physical borders were drawn; some were collapsed and re-drawn by incoming makers.
Roaming Tales in Regina, 2007. The marks of one's hands began to overlap with the marks of other hands - becoming synonymous, anonymous.
Roaming Tales in Regina, 2007. Several participants chose to use fracture and aggression in their approach. Shards by grade-schoolers Daniel and Roland.
Roaming Tales in Regina, 2007. Ceramics and fabric woven through iron railing by local clown, breath and body workers.
Roaming Tales in Regina, 2007. Thrown clay and vinyl graffiti by nine-graders from St. Luke's School.
Roaming Tales in Regina, 2007. Many of the structures echoed the informal architecture of childhood forts, makeshift rafts and emergency shelters.
Roaming Tales in Regina, 2007. There were places to climb into, lean against, walk across, crawl under and wander through.
Roaming Tales in Regina, 2007. The work invited people to explore uneven terrain, unreliable authors and unruly tales.
Roaming Tales in Regina, 2007. Found and assembled objects: Thai votive ornament, bracelets, Pathfinder & Jesus pins, cocktail donkey, fired and wet clay heads.
Roaming Tales in Regina, 2007. Generous collaborators included the entire Mackenzie Art Gallery staff, notably John Peet, Steve Reilly, Ralph Skanes, Michael Hamann and Randal Fedje.
Roaming Tales in Regina, 2007. Generous collaborators included the entire Mackenzie Art Gallery staff, notably John Peet, Steve Reilly, Ralph Skanes, Michael Hamann and Randal Fedje.
Roaming Tales in Regina, 2007. Gallery staff shared stories about each excavated piece, their collective memories locating each object in the chronology of past exhibitions and events.
Roaming Tales in Regina, 2007. From 'Deep Six' we hauled up 8 monumental cardboard columns, as well as a large gold lion, with permission of local artist Joe Fafard.
Roaming Tales in Regina, 2007. John Peet led the way to local hunting supplies and the local architectural salvage lot. He offered beautiful fragments of his pottery and sculpture and made a stellar borscht.
Roaming Tales in Regina, 2007. Some forms were based on personal narratives. The giant gold hammer was inspired by Steve Reilly's miniature.
Roaming Tales in Regina, 2007. This work was the material result of conversations with people in the local community and hands-on dialogue — inviting and responding to each other's forms and mark-making.
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