All Posts Tagged With: "art installation"
The Swamp Ward Window: Flying V Down
Flying V Down is a study for a larger work incorporating twenty or more ‘crashed’ guitars, and is one of a series of pieces by the artist that explore the history and culture of the electric guitar. Matt Rogalsky is an artist and musician based in Kingston. He performs and presents his solo electroacoustic music [...]
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Hmmm
This Saturday you have the opportunity to be part of a large scale art installation in downtown Kingston. Kathy Kennedy is a sound artist with a background in classical singing. Her art usually involves combining the human voice with technology (particularly radio and telephone). She is also a community artist and founded Studio XX, a [...]
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Settle: A Swamp Ward Window Project
Two years ago, we featured Inside, a Swamp Ward Window project that consisted of various multi-coloured banners with statements suggesting the realities of everyday life for inmates. For those who aren’t familiar, the Swamp Ward Window is an unconventional venue for contemporary art initiatives, which takes advantage of pedestrian curiosity and the intimacy of a [...]
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Glide
Modern Fuel’s New Media Workspace, in collaboration with both Feb Fest and artignite, is proud to present a free outdoor screening of Aubrey Reeves’ film/video installation, Glide, in Market Square. Glide is a looping side-by-side dual-screen installation that meditates on ice-skating as a personal experience of alchemy. It is a perfect match for Feb Fest [...]
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What if Kingston…
If you take a stroll around the campus at Queen’s University, you’ll be treated to a high concentration of outdoor art installations including Iron Man, Sakkarah, Thataway Again, Bent Yellow, A Minute of My Time, Untitled, and many more. However, when you venture outside of the Queen’s bubble, you’ll notice far fewer oversized works. Sure [...]
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Investigations of wishes, lies and dreams
Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre, in collaboration with the Union Gallery, presents the work of visiting Thai artist Sarawut Chutiwongpeti and collaborators in a multimedia installation focusing on the hybridity of new media and cross-cultural exchange. The piece will represent the artist’s explorations of the in-between of nature and science, contemporary art and traditional culture. [...]
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ConservaTree
Just over a decade ago, Canada turned waste management around by realizing modest gains in our paper recycling efforts. Specifically, in 1993 we collected and recycled more paper and cardboard than we buried in our landfills. Since then, more and more municipalities have signed on and developed their own recycling programs. Many have offset the [...]
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Brock Street Art Project
Yesterday I attended the ribbon cutting ceremony for the Brock Street Art Project. The project consists of 4 separate sculptures, each representing a European époque in art history – Renaissance, Baroque, Art Nouveau & Contemporary. The freestanding sculptures are approximately 9 feet tall, with each unit constructed of five different pieces of variously forged iron [...]
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Untitled
If you came here looking for this weekend’s events, scroll down a bit and have a look at our new events calendar on the right. (Then come back and read.) Today I’m going to finish up the Queen’s portion of my exploration of large scale art in Kingston. The final work is one that I [...]
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Iron Man
Modern and medieval ideas are applied in Jordi Bonet’s work, Iron Man, found on West Campus in front of the south entrance to Duncan McArthur Hall. Born in Barcelona in 1932 and having moved to Quebec in 1954, Bonet is known for his large ceramic murals. More of his works such as the Our lady [...]
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