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June 29, 2005
City selects public art for 1 Kingsway
Vancouver City Council has approved the commission of an electronic
media project as the public art installation for the planned 1 Kingsway
facility, which will house the Mount Pleasant Community Centre, the Mount
Pleasant Branch Library, a childcare facility, a 10-storey rental-housing
tower, and a ground-level café.
Vancouver artists Fiona Bowie and Rebecca Belmore along with Sidney
Fels received the commission, one of the first electronic media public
art commissions awarded through the City of Vancouver Civic Public Art
Program. The artwork, entitled "Flow", involves a 24-hour projection
of constantly changing images onto a large bank of street-level windows.
The glass will shift from transparent to opaque and layers of moving
and still images will appear and disappear over the course of hours,
days, week, months, and years.
Bowie writes, “We hope to visually suggest both what is currently
present within the environs of 1 Kingsway and what has disappeared; those
who have been historically represented and those who have not; the ephemeral
and the concrete; histories told and histories lost.”
The winning team was chosen through an open call for submissions.Three
local artist teams were shortlisted to develop and present proposals
to an advisory committee with members from the centre's user groups and
a selection panel of art professionals.
Fiona Bowie's multimedia installations have been exhibited in Europe,
America and Canada. She is an Assistant Professor in Integrated Media
at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design.
Rebecca Belmore is Canada’s representative at the 2005 Venice
Biennale. Belmore is known for her performances, videos, photographs
and sculptural installations, which address history, place, and identity.
Sidney Fels is director of the UBC Media and Graphics Centre, and is
also an Engineering Scientist specializing in computer and interactive
engineering. He has won numerous awards for his extensive research and
development of image-based installation technologies and software.
The project will be integrated into the architecture of the Mount Pleasant
Civic Centre at 1 Kingsway. This unique multi-use centre was designed
by Busby Perkins + Will Architects and is scheduled to open in September
2007.
For more information:
Barbara Cole
Public Art Program
604.871.6002
barbara.cole@vancouver.ca
Website: vancouver.ca/publicart
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