Installations

Written by Caitlind r.c. Brown After Image is a growing sculpture at cSPACE King Edward in Calgary, located in the public park outside … More

Corridor is a project that combines building and painting, creating a unique experience in a forgotten space. Through the manipulation of texture, colour and form, the work is designed to activate the under bridge area of the section of 9th avenue in Calgary, Alberta.

Without Eyes was a collaborative performance conceived by Lane Shordee, Nikki Martens, and Caitlind r.c. Brown for M:ST Performance Art Festival in Calgary. 8 Readers sat in a 30’ diameter circle in Riley Park, Calgary. Each performer read The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (by Roald Dahl) aloud into a large, low-fi megaphone, crafted from re-appropriated civic materials, a performance lasting 3.5 hours in duration.

Utilizing various electronic devices, light bulbs and scrap materials, Lane Shordee brings his love of scavenging objects and unusual spaces to his current light installation for Sled Island: Atomic Smash. Inspired by the data collected by large hadron colliders, Atomic Smash gives viewers a front row seat to the explosive event of atoms smashing together.

This project was a collaboration with The Anonymous Bench Builders, who build benches and place them around calgary. In this version we built benches on wheels specifically for the ContainR site in Calgary. Giving patrons freedom to move them around into different arrangements with ease.

This collaboration with Michelena Bamford called The Water Spiral, utilized items collected at the Wildwood Community Cleanup to create a kinetic sculpture that acts as a functional point of interest in the community garden. The process of making the sculpture provided opportunity for dialogue, inquiry, and education around garbage, recycling, and our societal views of beauty and management of these materials.

Waterways was a sculptural installation that was intended to commemorate the June flood in Calgary, and to highlight the resilience and strength of the community. It was our way of exploring the power and effects of water, responding to catastrophe with creativity, and creating an environment for contemplative reflection.

Space Bunker was a collaboration between Caitlind r.c. Brown and myself. As part of a group show, Caitlind and I chose a small nook in the back of the gallery, that usually gets ignored, and created a viewing room in it, that gave the viewers and experience of being under the stars and looking out through a telescope that was pointed at a swirling planet of unknown origin. The sitter could close the door behind them and escape to this other place for a moment of your day.

The Big Bang was a contend-um to the Hello Neighbour! show at Pith Gallery Calgary. As part of this pioneer-inspired installation, I created a working shotgun based on a shotgun shell that I found in the garage that I was working in during the show. The shotgun represented the universe during the big bang, creating an explosion of elements, and the result was an always shifting and changing pattern that would be almost impossible to replicate. The result was captured on a piece of grid paper that was in the range of the shotgun test.

In this project curated by Caitlind Brown, 8 artists including myself took on the task of transforming a local, soon to be demolished, house in Calgary. My installation consisted of a transformed kitchen into a whirlpool that circulated water through a rickshaw bicycle contraption in the basement. The system was based on an archimedes screw pump design that moves water up a small incline, acting as well as a water filter. All the materials were found in the house and re-appropriated to create a two story installation open to public interaction and discussion about the possibilities of art and home.