Our Dynamic Environment Lab Program Week was full of great discussions and learnings, presentations and site visits, and we had a full house at our public event, Dynamic Environment: Complimentary Perspectives, at the National Music Centre.
We are grateful to those who participated and came out in support, thank you!
We’re just back from Topeka, Kansas where we took part in The Governor’s Water Conference.
The room full of legislators, water managers and scientists convened to discuss the Kansas
Water Vision. Our small contribution was to share a bit about the implementation of the City of
Calgary’s WATERSHED+ public art program.
http://www.kwo.org/
In collaboration with Urbane Künste Ruhr's Creative Director, Katja Aßmann, Sans façon co-curated this year's festival of light in Hagen, Germany.
International artists, along with ourselves, have been invited to show works using, and speaking to, our relationship with light in the industrial city of Hagen, located in the Ruhr District. Some of the other artists include: Taturo Atzu (formely known as Tatsu Nishi). A Kassen. Simon Faithfull, Janice Kernel, Anna Rispoli, Shiny Toys (Jan Ehlen).
The Urban Lights Festival runs October 9-25, 2015.
Read more here and here.
image via: Volker Hartmann / Urbane Künste Ruhr
On July 2nd, we were invited to speak about our practice with Brainard Carey, host of Interviews from Yale University Radio WYBCX, a program that features conversations with artists, writers, curators and conservators in North America and Europe about the art world. This was a chance for us to delve into some of our recent projects, and particularly the work we’ve been doing with WATERSHED+ in Calgary. We talked about how artists can draw out stories and reveal what’s hidden in urban systems and underground infrastructure, and why a framework of embedding artists is so productive in our view. After all, this is an opportunity for art to connect people with where they live and how place is understood.
"How do you bring out elements that make a place special and unique, and share the pleasure of what’s around you?"
So cool to be among a great group of people on this program!
Sans façon is pleased to announce the arrival of Ciara McKeown.
Ciara has been welcomed deep into the bosom of the Sans façon practice and will be working as our Project Manager, based at our Calgary studio.
Ciara has worked as a commissioner, director, and project manager in public art across Canada and the US, with a background in art history, arts management, and cultural policy (all of the good stuff).
If you would like to introduce yourself personally to Ciara, please contact her at: ciara@sansfacon.org.