A work-in-progress site dedicated to my Artist-In-Residency (AIR) project through Camosun College Visual Arts, Summer 2013. All of the work is meant to be viewed as an on-line media gallery of sorts. A collage of imagery, sounds, video clips, possible experimental failures and spontaneous ambitions, all of which will support the final project.
Sunday 10 November 2013
Tuesday 20 August 2013
Monday 19 August 2013
Last Day!
Thursday 15 August 2013
Tuesday 13 August 2013
Wednesday 7 August 2013
Wednesday 31 July 2013
Wednesday 24 July 2013
Wednesday 17 July 2013
Wednesday 10 July 2013
Wednesday 3 July 2013
Tuesday 2 July 2013
Wednesday 26 June 2013
Wednesday 19 June 2013
Tuesday 11 June 2013
Monday 10 June 2013
Saturday 8 June 2013
Burn Some Rubber
Meeting familiar and new faces yesterday. Many thanks to Mike McLean and Brenda Petays for welcoming me (back) to begin again. Joseph Hoh told me to "Burn some rubber!" The best words of encouragement I've heard in a long time.
Saturday 1 June 2013
Wednesday 22 May 2013
Reclaiming PKOLS (Mt.Douglas)
I am very far away from this incredible mountain...but not for long...
I support this movement and day of action.
Thursday 2 May 2013
White Ash 2008
In the summer of 2008 I discovered a
strange site: a ring of white ash encircling a rock, hidden under an Arbutus
tree in Mt. Douglas Park, Victoria, BC. The letters "AL" were freshly cut into one of the tree's branches.
The topography of the scene was a fascinating
contradiction. Ascertaining the details of the aftermath of this rite required
getting so close to the cremated ashes as to seem in intimate private contact
with another person, and yet the site of it had been so chosen that the view
one looked out upon was still vast and expansive. One was somehow looking out
and looking in almost simultaneously.
A further point of interest to this
memorial site was that the view from it included the literal lookout spot on
the top Mt. Douglas. This one private lookout spot was offering a view of
another, public one, which is frequented by an unending stream of human figures
who gaze out from it in every different direction, totally unaware that from
this lookout spot, they themselves are being symbolically observed. The
numerous and transitory observers of the one, as opposed to the symbolic sacred
one of the other, represent two very different dichotomies
which are nonetheless symbiotically interconnected.
The following imagery and video clips are documentation of the original site and observations made that
will eventually become a video/installation for my AIR 2013. Updates, imagery,
more video, sounds will be uploaded as the project progresses.
Ring of Ash. Ceremonial site found in March 2008. |
June 2008 |
Wednesday 1 May 2013
Summer 2012
Returning to the Lookout site (with Terra Jean Long) in summer 2012. The landscape had changed and spontaneous observations made.
LOOKOUT Clips AIR 2013 from Kyath Battie on Vimeo.
LOOKOUT Clips AIR 2013 from Kyath Battie on Vimeo.
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