Field Studies: Exercises in a Living Landscape
Field Studies investigates radical and inventive ways in which our everyday landscape might be experienced and mapped. Rebecca Bayer and Laura Kozak’s community-based project The Hadden Park Map Exchange (developed through the Vancouver Parks Board Field House Residencies) documents the coming together of a myriad of specialized practitioners and community members—visual artists, musicians, historians, gardeners, choreographers, archaeologists, meteorologists, lifeguards, local residents, and children—to produce a series of unconventional maps of Hadden Park, at the north end of Vancouver’s Kitsilano Beach. Emiliano Sepulveda probes the very basis of photography with his weather kites made of light-sensitive photo paper, which record light conditions in the sites they are flown. Eden Veaudry’s sensual installation quite literally weaves together still photographs, video, and tapestries to map the intimate surfaces of her domestic realm, à la Xavier de Maistre’s 1794 novel, A Journey Round My Room.