BUILDING DAYS: Friday, Feb 16 & Saturday, Feb 17, 2024 // 11 am-7 pm
PUBLIC EXHIBITION: Sunday, February 18 // 2-6 pm
cSPACE Eau Claire
Theme by Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett
Photos from the Glenbow Archives, found here.
In response to the history of cSPACE Eau Claire as the former offices and vault for the Eau Claire & Bow River Lumber Company, we invite artists & sculptors to join us in crafting a collaborative interlocking lumber sculpture. We will provide lumber, and artists will create sculptures following (and breaking) any conventions they desire, with the caveat that their work must, at some point, intersect with the sculptures around them. You may choose to work collaboratively, or design a piece by yourself, but the object of the experiment is to link the pieces together into one, giant, growing, organic structure – in a futile effort to reanimate the wood and keep it alive.
At the summary of the exhibition, all wood will be repurposed for future projects.
This event was inspired in part by Khalid Omokanye’s socially distanced collaborative sculpture, ISOLATED BABEL, for The Hibernation Project 2021.
Let us know if you want to participate!
You don’t need to RSVP to visit the Public Exhibition
The Hibernation Project is an art intervention occurring annually from Winter to Spring. A tool for embracing – and combating – Winter in Canada, each weekend an open community of artists, musicians, and participants respond to a theme, creating new work around the topic, led by local artists Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett.
cSPACE Projects acknowledges that we live, work and play on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy, which includes Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai. We also acknowledge the Tsuut’ina and Stoney Nakoda First Nations, the Métis Nation (Region 3), and all people who make their homes in the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta.
