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Illuminated Manuscripts

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: 20
Location within venue: Map work
Venue: MacLaren Art Centre

Installation, west wall
Installation, looking southeast
Installation, looking southwest
Installation detail, stripped poly canoe with ash, rotted texts
Installation detail, video still: Pelt
Land Use work #2, Community Centre
Map work #1, Erasure: Accession# 979-38; Project for a Village on Kempenfelt Bay, 28 Jan, 1812
Map work #2, Erasure: Accession# 18532006-08; Plan of the Town of Barrie, Wm Hawkins, 1833
Map work #3, Erasure: Accession# 966-69; Plan of the Barrie Station Laid out by Robert Ross, 1853
Installation, south and east walls
Artist talk
Exhibition/gallery entry

Map work

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