Proximity News
Antic installation closes after a month of hospitality and community connection
Proximity would like to thank Blim for their hospitality. We'll miss the Main Street digs now that Antic has wrapped. If you have suggestions for us about archival collections that might benefit from an interactive sound component, email us at info@proximityarts.com. We'd also welcome your feedback if you had a chance to stop in and experience our collection of sounds and objects. Additional thanks to Caroline Liffman, Flick Harrison, Andrew Templeton, Bruce Macdonald and our board of directors for their contributions to the success of the events.
Walking tours with Bruce Macdonald
The walking tours were an overwhelming success. Interest in the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood and its origins is strong, and the gathering was a great opportunity for folks from the neighbourhood and beyond to share their knowledge and benefit from Bruce's scholarship on the area. If you would like to be notified of other walking tours, please email us.
Antic
Our room of memories right in the heart of Vancouver’s Antiques Row, transformed the Blim gallery into a high-tech antique parlour. Part sound installation, part trip down memory lane, Antic ran Jan 18 – Feb 16 at 197 East 17th Ave (@ Main St.). It is the creation of Greg Corness (from SFU), Joel DeStefano and Heidi Taylor.
As the visitor explores the collection of unique artifacts, they trigger memories associated with the objects; memories that tell the fragmented history of the pieces, uncovering the traces of people and events who have gone before. The room is a sea of sound with the visitor’s movement creating eddies from the past, evoking the associative nature of memory.
The invisible unconscious at work in the room is based on the same software technology at the core of computer games. Infrared video allows the room to react to each visitor as they wander through the collection. The room created unique, individual soundscapes drawn from a variety of sources including 19th century adventure travelogues, classic literature, cylinder recordings and early photography.
A blending of art and technology, Antic provided a parlour in which to play, converse, and contemplate the turning of centuries and the turning of the globe.
Creation and production of Antic has been made possible through the support of:
