Arcologie Oténaw\Otenaw Arcology: 2009

Friday, 20 November 2009

First Term MFA project \\ Projet du 1e trimestre à la MAV

Unfoldings\\Les dévoilements

Considering architecture, pathways, unfoldings: envisioning a gravel pathway from the entrance (campsite) through the trail that leads to the encampments - demarcated, dense, solid, permanence. Above the entrance to the pathway (where the blue stakes are) would rise two poles on either side. Connecting them, above, would be signage: BenedictionCorporation.

Concernant l'architecture, les sentiers, les dévoilements: l'envisagement d'une voie en gravier - de l'entrée (le site d'accueil) traversant le sentier en direction vers les campements - délimité, dense, solide, une permanence. Au-dessus de l'entrée - direction Nord - l'ascension de l'emblème: BenedictionCorporation.

Tuesday, 7 July 2009

BeneCorpo at Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition 2009

Hope to see people come out to the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition (TOAE) on Friday, July 10th to Sunday, July 11th, 2009. BeneCorpo is presenting our costume-based, interactive portraiture photobooth again this year. We are located at Booth #711 in the photography section\colour: purple (along Bay Street side of Nathan Phillip Square).

This year, we will be offering on-site prints available at prices starting at $25 per print. \\ On espère voir tout le monde au Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition (TOAE) - le vendredi, samedi, dimanche, 10, 11, 12 juillet, 2009. BeneCorpo présente, encore cette année, notre "baraque-photo" interactive, basée dans le costume et l'art du portrait. Nous sommes à la baraque numéro 711, dans la section de la photographie\couleur: violet (le long de la rue Bay à Nathan Phillip Square) (l'Hôtel de ville de Toronto). Cette année, nous offrons des épreuves photographiques (de 25$ l'épreuve).

Sunday, 17 May 2009

Saturday, 21 February 2009

A Solstice Story

Yes, we were full of anticipation for the arrival of the MythicalBeings. We waited –some by the window, others by the Eldest –warmed by fire. Kept warm, we were –children and adults –laughter and light on this cold Wintermoon night.

Supper was a broth with a few root-vegetables and rabbit-meat. It kept the warmth in, and the hunger away for a little while. There were so many of us now, and more arriving from the South every few weeks –it was hard to feed everyone; but we tried our best to give refuge.

The LongestNight was upon us, and we knew that it was the Night of Gifting, too. The children were the most excited anticipating the arrival of the Beings with joy.

This is all that the younger children knew –this mythology, this story. We chose to make it so for their own good. They didn’t need to know that the burden continued to worsen –that What Was had collapsed –that we were on our own now –that we had only ourselves to care for, to support –and, as much as we could, those who kept arriving.

Monday, 9 February 2009

Imagine

What can you imagine?
If Breakdown was to occur,
if we were forced to live radically different lives,
what would that life look like?

Would you be able to survive? How?
Have you thought of it? Does it concern you?
Can you give us a positive outlook?
What about a negative one?

How would you dress? How would you feed yourself?
What about security and defence? Shelter?
How would you feel about the future, the past, the present?
Do you have children? Do you feel an impending doom?

Can you imagine ten years into such a reality?
Your children would probably know no other certainty,
would never have experienced any other life,
how would they differ from you?

Will you be able to relate, having lived such differing lives? What about worldviews? Mythologies?
(Let us create this imagined/possible world together.)
Close your eyes. Empty your thoughts. Clear your mind.

Ponder what is being asked of you:

To re-imagine yourself projected into a future of Change.

This world (that we now know) has ceased to exist.

It is no longer. Who are you now? What have you become?