Grand House as playground:
photos from a fourth-year landscape installation this summer!
snaps by: Andrea Hunniford.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
SUMMER SWINGS!
Grand House as playground:
photos from a fourth-year landscape installation this summer!
snaps by: Andrea Hunniford.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Home/land Security
Home/land Security Opening Saturday November 21st at 6 pm - beginning at the School of Architecture and ending up at the Grand House for an outdoor film showing!
The Grand House is ecstatic to be participating in the Home/land Security Exhibit curated by Jeff Thomas. The main exhibit is at the UW Render Gallery on the main campus of the University of Waterloo, in co-ordination with Andrew Hunter. The exhibit engages the work of local artists on issues of homeland, public land, private land, land rights and security, and ideas of land ownership; notably engaging a Six Nations perspective.
In support of this work, the Grand House is currently hosting an installation by Jamelie Hassan, and will also be the site of a film screening outdoors on Ainslie Street, on Saturday November 21st. The screening is being held in co-ordination with the exhibit opening and a panel discussion on the work at the School of Architecture. Join us! More details to follow.
Following is a statement by Jamelie Hassan on her installation work.
Crown Land Beware
Prior to my conversations with Jeff Thomas about his Home/land Security project, I had been in an antique market in St. Jacob's and saw a fragment of a wooden fence with black text that read CROWN LAND BEWARE on it. I bought the fragment to consider it in a future work. Later a group of us involved in the Home/land Security exhibition met in Cambridge with Jeff Thomas and Andrew Hunter. Laura Knap was at the meeting and suggested we make a visit to Grand House Student Coop to consider this location as well for potential exhibition site - I was struck by the Grand House site, in particuliar the "ghost" steps. I had been thinking about the use of wooden survey sticks which are white with red tops - I kept coming back to this idea as Jeff talked about surveyors & mapping - public space, private property and land issues. I was thinking of ways to use the survey marker sticks within a stucture somehow on the obsolete steps at the student’s housing co-op. I decided to create a gate-like barrier/screen with wooden sticks which I painted red and white and install this structure at the based of the steps. The structure includes the found CROWN LAND BEWARE fragment and also a half wheel wooden fragment which I found in a flea market in London. This structure was built with the technical assistance of Ron Benner.
Three original found survey marker sticks were installed in the UW Render gallery, situated with a photo from family archives and photographs I took of the The National Museum of Beirut, with a soldier guarding this site. In Lebanon the security barriers - which continue to be in use - are painted red & white. There is an obvious link with security measures.
-- Jamelie Hassan, London Ontario.
The Grand House is ecstatic to be participating in the Home/land Security Exhibit curated by Jeff Thomas. The main exhibit is at the UW Render Gallery on the main campus of the University of Waterloo, in co-ordination with Andrew Hunter. The exhibit engages the work of local artists on issues of homeland, public land, private land, land rights and security, and ideas of land ownership; notably engaging a Six Nations perspective.
In support of this work, the Grand House is currently hosting an installation by Jamelie Hassan, and will also be the site of a film screening outdoors on Ainslie Street, on Saturday November 21st. The screening is being held in co-ordination with the exhibit opening and a panel discussion on the work at the School of Architecture. Join us! More details to follow.
Following is a statement by Jamelie Hassan on her installation work.
Crown Land Beware
Prior to my conversations with Jeff Thomas about his Home/land Security project, I had been in an antique market in St. Jacob's and saw a fragment of a wooden fence with black text that read CROWN LAND BEWARE on it. I bought the fragment to consider it in a future work. Later a group of us involved in the Home/land Security exhibition met in Cambridge with Jeff Thomas and Andrew Hunter. Laura Knap was at the meeting and suggested we make a visit to Grand House Student Coop to consider this location as well for potential exhibition site - I was struck by the Grand House site, in particuliar the "ghost" steps. I had been thinking about the use of wooden survey sticks which are white with red tops - I kept coming back to this idea as Jeff talked about surveyors & mapping - public space, private property and land issues. I was thinking of ways to use the survey marker sticks within a stucture somehow on the obsolete steps at the student’s housing co-op. I decided to create a gate-like barrier/screen with wooden sticks which I painted red and white and install this structure at the based of the steps. The structure includes the found CROWN LAND BEWARE fragment and also a half wheel wooden fragment which I found in a flea market in London. This structure was built with the technical assistance of Ron Benner.
Three original found survey marker sticks were installed in the UW Render gallery, situated with a photo from family archives and photographs I took of the The National Museum of Beirut, with a soldier guarding this site. In Lebanon the security barriers - which continue to be in use - are painted red & white. There is an obvious link with security measures.
-- Jamelie Hassan, London Ontario.
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