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TTC Public Art Program – June 5 Open House
On 29, May 2017 | In infrastructure, News, Project | By Admin
Hello Toronto friends,
Rebecca will be in town for a visit on Monday June 5th, to be present at an open house for a new project that we are working on.
If you’re nearby, come say hello! She’ll be at:
Toronto Reference Library
Epic Hall and Prologue
2nd Floor
789 Yonge Street
Toronto
Date: Monday, June 5, 2017
Time: 4 – 8 pm
Livable Cities 2017: Sensing the City
On 13, Apr 2017 | In Inspiration, News, Place, Research | By Admin
Livable Cities 2017 – 2nd Annual Symposium
April 13, 2017
Anvil Centre. New Westminster, BC.
Thanks to Livable Cities 2017 for inviting Rebecca to talk about her practice and to give a presention on how our surroundings can stimulate our senses and help inform how we identify with a particular place.
“Livable Cities” brings together interdisciplinary research, creative inquiry and city planning methods to explore current city development through sound, smell and other embodied perspectives. Presented by Simon Fraser University and hosted by the City of New Westminster, this one-day symposium will take up various disciplinary approaches, including architecture, community development, and socio-cultural issues. The event will include panels and talks, sensory workshops and sound art presentations. Communities in flux across the Lower Mainland present unique opportunities to engage with city planning strategies, urban densification, and the impact of soundscapes, smellscapes and mobilities on local urban environments.
Calder Community Mosaic Patterns
We’re excited that the design for the new Calder Branch Library community mosaic mural is coming together nicely. We are making preparations to begin fabrication soon.
Here is an updated animation of all of the digitized patterns created from the great designs gathered last year at the Calder Community pattern workshops.
Stay tuned…
Park Re-opening with ‘Storytelling’
Rebecca Bayer and IMu Chan are very honoured to have been a part of the Chief Mathias Joe Park renewal in North Vancouver with their piece ‘Storytelling.’
Yesterday afternoon the weather cleared for several hours during an energetic event honouring the Mathias family. Thank you to the City of North Vancouver for making this project come to life.
Calder Community Pattern Making Workshops
On 16, Aug 2016 | In Inspiration, Make, News, Project, Research | By Admin
Post-Workshops Update:
11×17 tile photo documentation – compilation of 137 Calder Community Patterns
‘Whereness’ Installed!
WHERENESS, located at Cambie & 50th, Vancouver. More here. Happy to announce that the new public artwork ‘Whereness’ was successfully installed at the Cambria site in early August 2016. Landscaping at base coming soon.
‘Motif of One and Many’ is Open!
We were very proud to attend today’s Opening Ceremony of Richmond’s City Centre Community Centre and the official unveiling of ‘Motif of One and Many’.
Mayor Malcolm Brodie opened his welcoming speech by giving special thanks to Rebecca for her very popular floor installation.
The opening ceremony was open to the public and was well attended by people from across the community. The City Centre Community Centre offered celebratory cupcakes.
City Centre Community Centre is located at 5900 Minoru Blvd. in Richmond and is open seven days a week. ‘Motif of One and Many’ is located in the 2nd floor lobby.
CITY FABRIC Photoshoot
We had a fun morning photographing CITY FABRIC from a 125′ boom lift.
Thanks to United Rentals and the great team at GNW Scene Shop for their generous support and assistance!
CITY FABRIC is installed and open to the public under the south end of Vancouver’s Burrard Bridge from August 1 to September 30, 2015.
Fantasma @ Project Space
Fantasma Viaduct Prints
Project Space – Monthly Open Studio: Wir Bauen Eine Neue Stadt
Join Project Space for their Monthly Open Studio presentation of “Wir Bauen Eine Neue Stadt (We Build A New City),” an exhibition of photographic works based on themes of architecture and urbanism that features artwork by Rebecca Bayer, David Gregory and Ryan Ming. A special edition zine and series of postcards realized for the exhibition will be available.
“Fantasma” is a series by Rebecca Bayer and David Gregory that explores the potential of space beneath Vancouver’s viaduct infrastructure. These images layer a repeated silk-screened pattern, derived from the negative space surrounding the Dunsmuir Viaduct, over alternately processed photographs developed on rag paper.
“Moving on Up” is a series of photographs Ryan Ming has taken throughout Vancouver, documenting various forms of high-rise housing developments built in the 1960s and 70s. The images display an interchangeability in the appearance of raw concrete and geometrics that seem indistinguishable from postwar housing estates in Europe.
REBECCA BAYER is an artist and architectural designer whose work concentrates on ways people interact with the materiality of the city.
DAVID GREGORY is a photographer who focuses on Vancouver as both a subject and a backdrop, addressing ideas concerning public and private space.
RYAN MING is a Vancouver-based writer and artist. His photography examines themes of time, urban fragments and landscape documentation, utilizing a cinematographic approach.
CITY FABRIC – coming soon
It’s been several years in the works but CITY FABRIC is now underway and due for installation under the south end of Vancouver’s Burrard Bridge this Summer. Rebecca (spacemakeplace) and Matthew Soules (MSA) have recently been material testing. More to come soon…
Matthew, Rebecca, Jeff and Cam testing the rigging system for CITY FABRIC
STORYTELLING – getting ready for final production
Storytelling – Final Production Drawings
The final production drawings are ready. Next step is the fabrication and preparation to install STORYTELLING this Fall at Chief Mathias Joe Park in North Vancouver, BC.