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Lumen Lite - Excavation Gardens by Maria Simmons presented by S.A.I.L.
In-person
Film & video Interdisciplinary Performance Visual artsDate and time
Location
Waterloo City Hall (entrance)
100 Regina Street South
Waterloo, ON
Directions: Masking and social distancing is required to participate in this installation.
Access
Free.
Offered in English.
Wheelchair accessible.
About
Artist Statement:
Excavation Gardens is a site-specific exhibition of hybrid sculptures centering the physical manifestation of interspecies intra-action and natural forms of contamination-as-collaboration. Within existing gardens, sculptures exist in a place of exposure and constant change, becoming-with the environment. While making your way around and through the installation, you may see leaves and pine needles falling into basins of water, insects buzzing, a foggy image of stone and dirt. You might hear the low rumble of a dehumidifier, the wet sizzle of dry soil sucking up water, the chirping of ultrasonic rat communication. Nothing is inert, everything is potentialized.
Links
- Lumen Lite lumenfestival.ca
Organizer
City of Waterloo - Create Waterloo in partnership with the UW Student Art Innovation Lab
Lumen is an annual, free, all-ages festival that is open to the public and run by the City of Waterloo’s Arts and Culture team (Create Waterloo). The event features the work of artists as they explore the interplay of light, art, and technology in installations located throughout uptown Waterloo.
The Student Art Innovation Lab is a new community outreach program run by UWaterloo fine and performing arts students. Programming centres around our newly restored and renovated vintage Airstream trailer that will operate as a mobile workshop and exhibition space.
This event is part of a hub:
Lumen Lite
City of Waterloo Waterloo, ONLumen Lite is a scaled down version of our annual festival, Lumen. Lumen brings together art and tech through captivating interdisciplinary art installations. Installations should feature the work of artists while also testing the limits or...