THE NATURAL & THE MANUFACTURED 2012
August 16 to September 21, 2012
Klondike Institute of Art & Culture
Dawson City, Yukon, Canada
1. EXHIBITIONS
B.J. Vogt | Ebb and Flow
Gallery Installation
Artist Talk: Thursday, August 16, 7pm, KIAC Ballroom
Reception to follow in the ODD Gallery
Andrew O’Connor | Frequencies: Dawson City
Outdoor Site-specific Sound Installation
Artist Talk: Thursday, August 16, 7pm, KIAC Ballroom
Arts Festival Installation Walk: Sunday, August 19, 2pm
Adrianna Kuiper & Ryan Suter | Burned
Outdoor Site-specific Installation
Arts Festival Installation Walk: Sunday, August 19, 2pm
2. LECTURE
Sheila Heti | The Soul of Time
The Natural and Manufactured lecture:
Friday, August 17 | 7pm in the KIAC Ballroom
3. DOCUMENTATION
J.P. King | The Same River
The Natural & the Manufactured post-exhibition essay
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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.