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Illuminated Manuscripts
Real Estates

A research led visual art project and soundscape exploring the way maps, and planned land use ‘mark’ and affect lived experience. Stemming from archival maps, photographs and textual records, the installation features are rooted in the history of the Nine Mile Portage as a visible mark on the landscape. The pedestrian trail began as an Anishinaabek trade path, before being appropriated as a supply route in the War of 1812 and the centre of a host of significant resource extraction and commercial development activity up to the early 2000s. The base of the trail is the site of the MacLaren Art Centre, where the project was shown.

Date of show: 2015
Location within venue: Photograph, 9 Mile portage
Venue: MacLaren Art Centre

Installation, west wall
Land Use work #5, Extractive Industrial
Land Use work #6, Sandy Hollow
Land Use work #12, Special Industrial
Land Use work #2, Community Centre
Installation, looking southeast
Installation, looking southwest
Installation detail, stripped poly canoe with ash, rotted texts
Installation detail, video still: Pelt
Installation, south and east walls

Composite map showing 9 Mile Portage currently
Photograph, 9 Mile portage
Sample page from sound journal
Detail of portion of sound installation
Simcoe Country Archives 1984 Map
Detail, Municipal Planning Map
Simcoe Country Archives scan showing 1890 flood marking the street
Simcoe Country Archives scan showing mid century recreational canoe use
Artist talk
Exhibition/gallery entry

Photograph, 9 Mile portage

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