Join Vancouver Heritage Foundation as we celebrate a new public art piece at The WALL with a free artist talk.On Thursday, November 12th at 12pm at CBC Studio 700, artist Faith Moosang will speak about the new 30×40 foot installation titled down. town. which explores the theme of Vancouver’s built environment. Faith will speak about her process in interpreting the theme and how she arrived at the final product. The first 50 attendees will also receive a voucher for a free drip coffee from JJ Bean. Come celebrate public art that embraces Vancouver’s built history!
VHF celebrates The WALL public art launch
WHEN: Thursday, November 12th at 12pm
WHERE: 700 Hamilton Street, CBC Studio 700
down. town. is a large-scale composite photograph created from 164 individual film frames, video stills and digital photographs gleaned from the CBC Archives and Wikimedia Commons. The selected images respond to three questions: how many buildings have been demolished in downtown Vancouver between 1954 and 2015, how many of these demolitions were considered newsworthy and how does one represent the notion of absence or missing? Faith proposes that the high number of buildings that have gone missing from our collective landscape is indicative that humans are notorious for forgetting, and that what is normal is always shifting.
Faith Moosang is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Vancouver, BC. Her work centres around inquiry into spectacle culture, media, mediated imagery, and the notion and materiality of archives.
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About The WALL
The WALL is a public art project made possible by a partnership between Vancouver Heritage Foundation and CBC with support from JJ Bean Coffee Roasters and the City of Vancouver Public Art Program. All exhibits are an artist’s interpretation of the theme ‘Vancouver’s built environment.’ Every year a new artist is selected by The WALL Advisory Committee.
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For more information about the official launch visit:
www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org/specialprojects or call 604 264 9642