Becoming Rock

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À propos

Generously funded by the City of Barrie and project donors Sheila Delaney and Joan Lehman, the Becoming Rock one-minute sculpture project is created by professional interdisciplinary artists and curators Jill Price and Frances Thomas. Inspired by the playful one-minute sculptures of Austrian artist Erwin Wurm and instructional art of the 1960s, this interactive project is an entertaining field exercise for all ages that encourages both movement and stillness along Barrie's waterfront.

Pairing art history with everyday activities, the project also reinforces the long tradition of humans interacting with rocks as material, site and symbol.

To get involved, look for seven instructional signs placed next to large rocks located around Barrie's waterfront between the bottom of Mulcaster Street and South Shore Community Centre. Upon reading prompts that help reconnect humans with other aspects of nature, participants are then invited to strike a 60-second pose to create one-minute sculptures based on earlier works by artists such as Andy Goldsworthy, Nobuo Kubota, Lori Blondeau, Bruce Nauman and Karina Aguilera Skvirsky.

Wishing to visualize the material connections between humans and other aspects of nature, Price & Thomas encourage participants to take and share black and white photos to @ptartcolab for their future celebration and archiving of the project.

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Price & Thomas Art CoLab

@ptartcolab is a playful and experimental collaboration between two arts professionals educated in gallery culture, museology, curating, arts education and contemporary art. Both living in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Jill Price and Frances Thomas have paired up to explore how working together might push their practices into new areas of investigation as well as to share the wonderful discoveries they make while researching and reading theoretical and historical texts. Inspired by all the women artists that have come before them, Price & Thomas are also working to explore how art, in all of its manifestations, can find its way into unexpected spaces and places.

Foundationally connected by their individual childhood experiences with land, their collaborative interactive installations arise out of Price & Thomas meeting every week over eggs, hash browns, coffee and chocolate milk to discuss the ins and outs of the art world(s) while considering the many issues of what it means to be makers in today's world. Working to both increase the accessibility and visibility of contemporary and conceptual art, Price & Thomas also came together to expand their respective art practices so as to arrive at projects that build new audiences for the visual arts while encourage participants to sense and engage with their surroundings in new ways.

Price, born in Toronto, Ontario, is a Canadian artist researching new materialism. Recently completing an MFA from OCADU, she works at the intersection of drawing, sculpture and performance while investigating UN/making as a creative act within her PhD studies at Queen's University. To read more about Price's practice and exhibition history visit jillpricestudios.ca.

Thomas, born in Parry Sound, Ontario, is a Canadian artist not interested in the straight translation of anything. Working at the intersections of the imagined and the real through abstraction, she achieved an MFA from York U. Drawn to the mystical, she describes her process as an "inventory that I build or make, or unmake and remake, just like a life, bits and pieces that can only ever be bits and pieces". To read more about Thomas's practice and exhibition history visit francesthomas.ca. See less