Endlessly Traversed Landscapes
Endlessly Traversed Landscapes is a public postering project, funded by the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games curated by Natalie Doonan and featuring 21 artists from across Canada. Their works are located throughout the city of Vancouver, appropriating spaces of advertising, while entering into dialogue with their surroundings. Billboards are highly contested and competitive zones in which the drama of shifting social relations is played out. Similarly, bus shelters and trains are transitory sites – outposts that speak to the movement of people through rather brief moments in time.
The title of the exhibition comes from an essay by the French post-war theorist, film maker and poet Guy Debord, entitled The Critique of Separation: "after all the dead time and lost moments, there remain these endlessly traversed postcard landscapes; this distance organized between each and everyone". Debord was a founding member of the Situationists International, a collaborative alliance of artists and activists who attempted to negate the alienating effects of communications media and destroy avant-garde claims of originality. The works of Endlessly Traversed Landscapes are informed by these concerns and their present trajectories. They have been selected for their appropriations of material processes and subject matter, and for their ability to provocatively reconsider notions of territory.
The term landscape does not exist outside of systems of privatization. Landscape therefore denotes at once a claiming of territory and the visualization of natural space. This opportunity to speak in public and be heard is one that each artist has considered with care.
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Adad Hannah, 2nd Ave. at Fir St., entrance to Granville Island
Garry Neill Kennedy, East Cordova at Hawkes Avenue
Genevieve Cadieux, Terminal Avenue at Quebec
Hannah Jickling and Valerie Salez, West Broadway at Cambie Street
Ken Lum, Powell Street at Clarke Drive
Kevin Schmidt, Nelson at Expo Boulevard
Robin Collyer, West Georgia Street at Burrard
Robin Collyer, East Hastings Street at Carrall Street
Sandy Plotnikoff, Broadway at Main Street
Sandy Plotnikoff, East Hastings Street at Columbia Street
Sandy Plotnikoff, East Hastings Street at Columbia Street
Garry Neill Kennedy, Skystrip, Canada Line Train
Susan Dobson, Richards Street between Georgia and Dunsmuir
Hannah Jickling and Valerie Salez, Main and Terminal Avenue
Adad Hannah, West 4th Avenue at Hemlock
Angela Carlsen, Granville Street at Robson Street
Angela Carlsen, Powell Street at Jackson Street
Dana Claxton, Expo Boulevard at Nelson Street
David LaRiviere, Granville Street at Robson Street
Elizabeth Zvonar, Granville Street at Georgia Street
Sandy Plotnikoff, Langara Station, Canada Line
Natasha McHardy, Burrard Street at Nelson Street
Robin Collyer, Howe Street at Dunsmuir Street
Robin Collyer, West Georgia at Burrard Street
Sonny Assu, Powell Street at Main Street
Susan Dobson, Expo Boulevard at Abbott Street
Elizabeth Zvonar, West Georgia Street at Burrard Street