From the the Vancouver Heritage Foundation:
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Join us as we celebrate a new public art piece at The WALL with a free artist talk. Artist Faith Moosang will speak about the new 30×40 foot installation titled down. town. which explores the theme of Vancouver’s built environment.
down. town.
down. town. is a large-scale composite photograph created from 164 individual film frames, video stills and digital photographs gleaned from the CBC Archives and Wikimedia Commons. The selected images respond to three questions: how many buildings have been demolished in downtown Vancouver between 1954 and 2015, how many of these demolitions were considered newsworthy and how does one represent the notion of absence or missing?
Faith proposes that the high number of buildings that have gone missing from our collective landscape is indicative that humans are notorious for forgetting, and that what is normal is always shifting.
The WALL is a public art project made possible by a partnership between Vancouver Heritage Foundation and CBC with support from JJ Bean Coffee Roasters and the City of Vancouver Public Art Program. All exhibits are an artist’s interpretation of the theme ‘Vancouver’s built environment.’
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Thursday, November 12
12 pm
700 Hamilton Street, CBC Studio 700
