What are our Supports: Re-grounding the Footnotes
with Elisa Ferrari, John Brennan, Justin Patterson, 2018
with Elisa Ferrari, John Brennan, Justin Patterson and Dril Art Collective
Site-responsive sound performance
Response to DRIL Art Collective’s Re-grounding the Footnotes
What Are Our Supports?, curated by Joni Low. Or Gallery and Richmond Art Gallery
Cathedral Square Park, Vancouver, June 9, 2018
From the Richmond Art Gallery:
“The surfaces we walk on and pass by contain stories – the residual and collective memories of a place. Sometimes stories are not told, but felt; sensory clues abound. For Re-grounding the Footnotes, DRIL Art Collective catalogues the surrounding urban area through frottage, mining surfaces and beneath for other narratives and pathways within. Transforming Boothy into a lightbox, these rubbings are reconfigured akin to stained-glass windows, offering unexpected and alternative ways of reading the city. Buried within these ‘footnotes’ are an accumulation of residual histories, failed utopias, and potentials overlooked. Shifting perspectives from dominant narratives to the structures that quietly support, DRIL affirms the margins.”
Mackenzie, Justin Patterson, Elisa Ferrari and John Brennan responded with a site-responsive sound work: gathered field recordings, nearby church bells, EMF frequencies, and acoustic and synthesized sound.
Mackenzie’s text Elemental Materiality appears in the accompanying publication What Are Our Supports, edited by Joni Low and Jeff O’Brien (2023).