Other Sights for Artists' Projects

Other Sights for Artists’ Projects is an arts collective based in Vancouver, BC. Incorporated as a non-profit society in May 2005, the collective supports temporary public art projects by providing expertise in curation, project management and promotion. Other Sights considers the public realm to be both the built environment including streets and parks, as well as media and communication technologies. Other Sights board members include Patrik Andersson, Clint Burnham and Holly Schmidt. The production team includes Lorna Brown, Barbara Cole, Colin Griffiths, Vanessa Kwan, Marko Simcic and Jen Weih.

Select Projects

When the Hosts Come Home

When the Hosts Come Home was a series of art projects that presented three different collaborative-based artist teams who use recycled and re-purposed materials to produce large-scale sculptural works that addressed the meaning of “legacy” in relation to Vancouver’s changing urban identity. The projects were a response to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. The last project in the series, Deadhead, was a floating sculptural installation by Cedric, Nathan and Jim Bomford. Salvaged wood and metal was mounted onto a World War II barge and moored in two location along Vancouver's waterways during the summer of 2014. Vancouver based writer and curator Kimberly Phillips said of the project, "The barge is tugged into a zone of leisure and capital that has ever-so-successfully concealed its edge, its recent pasts of shoreline squatting, immigrant shanties and specious evictions... If only for a brief moment, one could say, Deadhead conjured the city's uncomfortable pasts."[1]

The Larwill Park site projects

Upon proposing Larwill Park as the site for its new location, the Vancouver Art Gallery commissioned Other Sights to produce a series of projects in the space.[2] The first project, titled The Innaugural Project, (September 2015 - August 2016) referenced the park's history as a space for public gatherings and expressions of public concerns. Sections from documentary photographs of the park's history were cut out, enlarged, printed in bright Pantone colours, and installed around the park. The installed images referenced commercial bill boards and were strategically sited to draw attention to features outside of the site such as pedestrian walk-ways and views of the surrounding buildings. For the second project, Ovoidism, installed in September 2017, Canadian First Nations artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun produced a series of sculptures of large, brightly colored ovoids. Ovoids are key design features of Northwest Coast Indigenous art but they are rarely depicted alone, usually being an element of a larger design.[3] The art work aimed to draw attention to unresolved Indigenous land claims at Larwill, and Vancouver more generally.

References

  1. ↑ Phillips, Kimberly (Winter 2014). "On Bathtub Rings and Other Irritants: Cedric, Nathan and Jim Bomford's Deadhead". C Magazine. 124: 21.
  2. ↑ "Larwill Park Site Inaugural Project". Vancouver Art Gallery - Past Exhibitions. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  3. ↑ Lanaat' Worl, Rico (2014). A Basic Guide to Northwest Coast Formline Art. Juneau, Alaska: Sealaska Heritage Institute. ISBN 978-0985312978.
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