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“flotilla” is a material and sound installation exploring ideas of home, self and the social as well as human and animal aesthetic impulses. Shown on a smaller scale at Pith Gallery, Calgary in 2013, the project has been funded by a grant from the Alberta Creative Development Initiative.
With the magpie’s nest in mind as an expanded metaphor, I envisioned implausible floating structures confected from a diversity of collected (discarded) materials, clustered in an interconnected, suspended group, and animated by a cacophony of radio signals (an immaterial accumulation of information permeating the air around us). I imagine a collector seduced by visual sparkle that surrounds itself with shiny things, creating new worlds from the trash heap of a civilization. We live in the anthropocene era; when it is past, we will leave geological strata studded with bright, shiny things.
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Annie Martin's creative practice traverses installation, audio and video art, textile, drawing and performative practices. Her installations, sound and video works have been exhibited widely in Canada, and sometimes internationally. Martin received her MFA in Art from Concordia University, Montreal, in 1994 and her BFA in 1989 from the same institution. Since 2005, she has lived and worked in Lethbridge Alberta, where she is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Lethbridge.
CASA Gallery
230 8 Street South
Lethbridge, AB
(Exhibition continues until October 30th, 2015)
Contact:
Jarrett Duncan | jarrett.duncan@uleth.ca