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Broad Magazine |  Visual Culture for the Digital Age

FEATURE: In Search of... the Eltanin Antenna 

Thanks to Gergo Farkas for this.

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Fun to see a .GIF reminder of my time aboard the Hanjin Geneva for Twenty-Three Days at Sea: Traveling Artist Residency.  Thanks Lise Hosein & @cbcarts 

https://www.cbc.ca/arts/what-are-artist-residencies-and-why-do-you-want-one-1.5134378

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In Search of... the Eltanin Antenna opens this week at Occurrence Espace d'art et d'essai contemporains in Montréal.  More information here.

Vernissage - May 9, 17:30

The work combines task-based approaches with photographic image-making, appropriated images and other far-reaching components in an intense search for higher and more-real truths around the out-of-place-artefact known as the Eltanin Antenna.  

You  can see a selection of the work here.

Image: Zakas 2002, McC Records

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recent ship drawings

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I am giving a story-telling lecture at the Owens Art Gallery Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick for A Handmade Assembly Thursday October 18th at 11:00 AM.  The talk will be live streamed on OwensTV.

For A Handmade Assembly, Chris Boyne will present the task-based project seventy-six through a story-telling lecture. seventy-six seeks to substantiate lost and fictional memory bits through the hand fabrication and manipulation of objects. Some of these memory bits may not be real—many of them are only parts of ideas, fantasies or dreams.  Others do not even belong to the artist but they have all become part of an amalgam of idea and memory. The bits are varied and include searching for 2L pop bottles with opaque black bottoms, turning a soup spoon into a pike, baking blackstrap molasses bread and finding a trunk key to a Plymouth Duster muscle car.

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I am taking over CONTACT Photography Festival’s Instagram for the next week (Oct. 23 - 27) to debut the new project In Search of... the Eltanin Antenna

@contactphoto

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Detail: Maersk Pembroke from the project Palermo. 

In August Maersk Pembroke suffered an engine fire in the Celtic sea while en route from Antwerp Belgium to Montreal.  Maersk now plans to scrap the ship and has started arrangements with a Turkish recycling yard. The CMA CGM container ship Camellia will takeover in the TransAtlantic TA4 route.

more details:  Maersk Pembroke Sold for Scrap

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Happy to share documentation from the project 'Zephyr' a new public sculpture piece that is now part of the Domaine Forget’s permanent collection.  It is open to the public all year at the Domaine Forget in Saint Irénée, QC.

Zephyr speaks to maritime sensibilities and celebrates the maritime history and traditions of the Charlevoix region.  The piece is made up of three separate objects- a single blade from a ship’s propeller, a guide roller from the deck of a ship and a fabricated light beacon.  Though abstracted by their orientation and placement in the landscape, the three minimalist objects are immediately recognizable as maritime forms.  

The propeller blade and the roller guide are ‘ready-made’ components sourced from the Camille-Marcoux a decommissioned ferry that was built in Sorel, Québec and provided the Matane – Godbout – Baie-Comeau link from 1974 to 2016.  The ship is currently being broken at a maritime salvage yard in Port Colborne, Ontario.  The light beacon is a 9-foot heavily painted steel column capped with a single-sided radar deflector, a marker flag and a flashing marine light.  The light beacon references buoy and ship hardware design and acts as a semaphore communicating the existence of Zephyr the way a can, marker or hooter might mark a shoal or the entrance to a harbour.

I have always been interested in the idea that my work can exist on the edge or move freely between art and life.  The ‘ready-made’ objects that make up Zephyr served a practical function in life and are very 'real' but in the Sculpture Garden at the Domaine Forget they now exist as art objects.  The objects could however be put back in use on a ship at any time.   It is important to me that the objects are not maquettes, facsimiles or copies but real artifacts.  

The three objects are mounted in the landscape in a line mirroring the ship traffic of the Mighty! Saint Lawrence River (as my dad would say).  Zephyr keeps literal and figurative pieces from the ships that pass Charlevoix and Saint-Irénée permanent and static in the landscape. Ships pass constantly on their way to the Ocean or into the Seaway but they are always in motion, never pausing—always in transit.  Zephyr provides an opportunity for a small break in this pattern.

More information here.

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I will be showing new work alongside Isabelle Guimond and Laurent Lévesque at Galerie Trois Points in Montreal, QC.   July 8 - August 26, 2017  -  (Vernissage - July 11, 5-7pm)

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I will be showing one stack, three stacks at VU PHOTO in Québec City March 31 - April 30, 2017  -  Vernissage - March 31, 6pm

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wheelhouse with diamond window 

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Canadian Gov. surplus Benthos 3782 Minicamera

In Search of... the Eltanin Antenna

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truck & tug

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http://thesoundstc.com/2016/12/wish-you-were-here-23-days-at-sea/

Wish You Were Here: 23 Days at Sea by Bart Gazzola for The Sound of St. Catharines

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exhaust manifold, outboard motor, chev truck

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ancient drawings, sorting papers

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In September 2015 I spent 23 days crossing the Pacific Ocean from Vancouver, British Columbia to Shanghai, China on a 900-foot German-flagged container ship called the Hanjin Geneva. The trip was part of Twenty-Three Days at Sea: A Travelling Artists Residency through Access Gallery Vancouver.

I have followed the Hanjin Geneva using websites like marinetraffic.com  ever since. I took great interest earlier this fall when Hanjin Shipping Co. Ltd filed for bankruptcy. I watched for several weeks as the Hanjin Geneva sat at anchor amongst several other Hanjin ships off Busan, South Korea.  

I was shocked this afternoon to see that marinetraffic.com has changed the status of the Hanjin Geneva to ‘Decomissioned or Lost’.  They have also changed the name of the ship to Eva.  Currently, Eva is on the beach at Gaddani Ship Breaking Yard near Karachi, Pakistan.  The ship was built in the year 2000.  

Absolutely unreal.