Alluvium: Chiasm (2023)
4-channel video installation featuring layered high-definition drone and on-land imagery of horizon lines from Lake Erie and Lake Ontario looking East, North, South and West at pre-sunrise, noon, and post-sunset. Sound, imagery, and subject matter were gathered along the Niagara River and Great Lakes (Canada), as well as the Han River and its bridges that connect the north and south districts of Seoul (South Korea).
Developed for the “Two Rivers Crossed Landscape” project that deals with themes of complex interconnectivity and reciprocity - commemorating the 60th anniversary of peaceful diplomatic relations between Canada and South Korea.
Rivers, estuaries, and horizon lines are deployed as metaphors for diplomatic and broader human/non-human interrelations that function most effectively and sustainably when there is equilibrium and balance achieved between the forces of “give” and “take”.
The work also ruminates on the idea that, when we consider the flow of water across and between land masses, borders drawn on maps by humans are inconsequential, and are - by nature - porous and dynamic.
Produced with support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Canada-Korea Connections fund.
Alluvium: Chiasm - Installation Docummentation
