Here Where I Wish is a project uses pre-made game cards that offer chance elements to navigate a walk through Venice, during the 56th Venice Biennale. April is collaborating with artist Sean Smith (Department of Biological Flow), who will participate by conducting his own walk using the same game cards through Little Italy in Toronto. Each walk is being documented using the Mapmywalk app, and the two archived walks will be layered together in Google Earth with images, sound video, notebook writing, and other documentation of the journeys.
Sounding Board: A Study in Relational Thinking was created at an art residency/ research-creation retreat called Cottage University III: Energetics and Assembly. The jute cello was created during a musical performance by Canadian cellist Leanne Zacharias. Residency participants were later asked to participate by playing the jute cello and composing a new musical composition while thinking about Zachrias musical performance.
Material: Jute, rebar, rocks, trees
Emergent concepts: Tension device, diagramming, gestural improvisation, frayed politics, spatial apparatus, unwinding, frayed politics
Cottage University III: Energetics and Assembly
Verona Ontario
May 2014
