THE NATURAL & THE MANUFACTURED 2013
August 15 to September 20, 2013
Klondike Institute of Art & Culture
Dawson City, Yukon, Canada
1. EXHIBITIONS
Paul Griffin | Welcome Stranger
Gallery Installation
Artist Talk: Thursday, August 15, 7pm, KIAC Ballroom
Reception to follow in the ODD Gallery
Sarah Fuller | The Homecoming
Outdoor Site-specific Installation
Artist Talk: Thursday, August 15, 7pm, KIAC Ballroom
Arts Festival Installation Walk: Thursday, August 15, 10pm
2. LECTURE
Robert Bringhurst | The Facts will Form a Poem in Your Minds
The Natural and Manufactured lecture:
Saturday, August 17 | 7pm in the KIAC Ballroom
3. DOCUMENTATION
Meg Walker | If We Could Bottle Light
The Natural & the Manufactured post-exhibition essay
N+Mbrochure2013 (PDF)
The Natural & The Manufactured is a unique thematic project jointly organized by the ODD Gallery and the Artist in Residence Program at the Klondike Institute of Art & Culture. Conceived as a speculative research and presentation forum, the N&M looks to the myriad ways in which we both influence and are influenced by our natural and constructed environments.
Through a rich program of exhibitions, installations, actions, lectures and essays, The Natural & The Manufactured endeavours to engage both artists and audiences in a re-examination of the cultural, physical and economic values imposed on the environment. This project seeks to explore alternative political, social and aesthetic agendas and strategies towards a reinterpretation and new understanding of our relationship to the environment and our social infrastructure: the indelible ways in which our natural landscapes influence, inspire and sustain us, and conversely the ways in which our perceptions of- and actions upon- these landscapes directly impact the environment itself.