Roaming Tales in Surrey, 2007. Ceramics & mixed media installation at the Surrey Art Gallery, British Columbia.
Roaming Tales in Surrey, 2007. Hand-pinched, found & donated ceramics, wood scaffolding, 4 dryer drums, 6 video monitors, 1 surveillance camera.
Roaming Tales in Surrey, 2007. The TechLab is the only dedicated physical venue for the production and presentation of digital art forms in a contemporary Canadian art museum.
Roaming Tales in Surrey, 2007. Detail, wooden scaffolding, clothes-dryer drum, plastic garden fencing. Looping sound and video through center of drum.
Roaming Tales in Surrey, 2007. Detail, upturned ceramic goldfish, duck head by Tim Berg, hand-pinched ceramics and video/sound of 9th grader, Leroy, smashing pottery.
Roaming Tales in Surrey, 2007. What might occur when forms are shaped by low-tech and so-called 'craft-based' processes?
Roaming Tales in Surrey, 2007. Viewing from below, videos of interactions and conversations with Roaming Tales collaborators at the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, SK.
Roaming Tales in Surrey, 2007. Ceramic text, hand-pinched by local collaborators Alma Visscher, Debbie McKeown and Lorri Espeseth. They staged the following two compositions, among others, and know how to keep a secret.
Roaming Tales in Surrey, 2007. How do 'found' or 'lost' objects shape the story?
Roaming Tales in Surrey, 2007. Detail, industrially-produced Martian figurine with thrown-and-altered girl, by Gerit Grimm, in background.
Roaming Tales in Surrey, 2007. With acrobatic skill, Scot Keefer constructed the wooden scaffolding and installed camera/monitors.
Roaming Tales in Surrey, 2007. Christopher Dean suspending hand-pinched ceramic form.