July 28: Alison Yip and Michelle Helene Mackenzie’s “Startled Moon Twilight Rune” Fireworks Simulcast for FLAR (Feminist Land Art Retreat). Commissioned by Nicole Ondre and Vanessa Disler.
http://www.feministlandartretreat.com
Via the Contemporary Art Gallery:
Feminist Land Art Retreat
FLAR AIR and FLAR AIRWAVES July 27 – August 5, 2018
Off-site at English Bay and Downtown Vancouver
To accompany this year’s Celebration of Light international fireworks competition, the Contemporary Art Gallery is working with Feminist Land Art Retreat to present a series of interventions in the traditional viewing experience. From 5-7pm on July 27 and 12-2pm on August 5, (the days preceding and following the festival) an aerial artwork will appear in the sky. Visible from any point in the English Bay beach area, FLAR AIR will announce a playful disruption in the week’s celebrations.
Accompanying the two aerial interventions is a poster campaign distributed throughout Downtown Vancouver promoting FLAR AIRWAVES, a new webcast specially commissioned from three duos of international musicians and artists to accompany each of the three firework displays. By visiting feministlandartretreat.com from 10pm on July 28, August 1 and August 4, festival goers will discover a live broadcast that provides a new way to engage with the summer spectacle.
Generously supported by the City of Vancouver through its Cultural Services Public Art Program.
Feminist Land Art Retreat
Feminist Land Art Retreat (FLAR) was initiated in 2010 with an advertisement. In subsequent years, FLAR has produced promotional material for public circulation such as posters, T-shirts, postcards, temporary tattoos, and more recently performances and exhibitions. Using conceptual strategies and humour to subvert familiar visual forms and methods of information circulation, their work addresses social and cultural models that construct notions of femininity and nature. Recent solo exhibitions include Free Rein, Audain Gallery, Vancouver; No Man’s Land, ACUD Gallery, Berlin; Heavy Flow: The Re-Release, Ginerva Gambino, Cologne; and Duty Free, Studio for Propositional Cinema, Düsseldorf. In summer 2017 FLAR was artist in residence at Contemporary Art Gallery Burrard Marina Field House.