{"id":2101,"date":"2011-08-16T18:10:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T01:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingvancouver.ca\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2013-01-21T07:20:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:20:08","slug":"release-a-sign-for-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/08\/16\/release-a-sign-for-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Release &#8211; A Sign for the City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/A-Sign-for-the-City.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2102 aligncenter\" title=\"A-Sign-for-the-City\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/A-Sign-for-the-City.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"460\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">A Sign for the City, a year-long public art project by Sabine Bitter\/Helmut Weber, continues in transit shelters August 15.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">The regular nightly boom of Vancouver&#8217;s Nine O&#8217;clock Gun is a  familiar sound to those within hearing range of Stanley Park&#8217;s historic  cannon.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">From May 2011 to April 2012, A Sign for the City appropriates this marker of time, dedicating the sound of the blast each  day to a particular cultural, social or political figure or event in  Vancouver and B.C.\u2019s history as a reminder of complex cultural histories of this place as well as a marker of time to measure  our own lives.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more-->Each day&#8217;s auditory punctuation is explained in a calendar of  events that appears in the Georgia Straight and posted in bus shelters  scattered throughout Vancouver. The transit shelter poster locations for  August 15-September 4 are:<\/div>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Cordova Street: 30 metres east of Main Street on the south side<\/li>\n<li>West 4th Avenue:\u00a0 20 metres east of Arbutus on the south side<\/li>\n<li>Dunbar Street: north of 18th Avenue on the east side<\/li>\n<li>Commercial Drive: 20 metres south of East 14th Street on the west side<\/li>\n<li>Dunbar: 32 metres north of West 30th Avenue on the east side<\/li>\n<li>East 41st Street: 22 metres east of Kerr on the south side<\/li>\n<li>Kingsway 20 metres east of McKinnon on the south side<\/li>\n<li>Pacific Boulevard: 20 metres north of Drake Street on the west side<\/li>\n<li>Rupert: 20 metres south of East Broadway on the east<\/li>\n<li>West 49th Avenue: 20 metres west of Alberta on the north side<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">A free printed booklet is also available that is a daily calendar  listing the people and events to whom the 365 cannon reports are  dedicated.\u00a0 The calendar booklet for A Sign for the City is available at:<\/div>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Audain Gallery<br \/>\nSimon Fraser University Woodward&#8217;s<br \/>\n149 West Hastings<br \/>\nHours: Tuesday to Saturday, 12noon to 6pm; Closed August 16 &#8211; September 16, 2011<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Charles H. Scott Gallery \/ READ Books<br \/>\nEmily Carr University of Art + Design<br \/>\n1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island<br \/>\nHours: Monday to Friday,\u00a0 12noon to 5pm; Saturday to Sunday 10am to 5pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">***<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Sabine Bitter &amp; Helmut Weber<\/strong> have collaborated since  1994, working between Vancouver and Vienna. Their work is based in  research and addresses cities, modernist architecture and the politics  of representation and space. They have exhibited extensively in Europe and Canada. Recent projects include Learning from Vancouver, with Urban Subjects and Bik van der Pol, at the Western Front, Vancouver, and Communitas: The Unrepresentable Community at Camera Austria, Graz, Austria, among others.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>**<br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>&#8220;A Sign for the City&#8221; is commissioned by the City of Vancouver Public Art Program with  support of Vancouver 125 and the participation of the Government of Canada and the assistance of the British Columbia Arts  Council. The project was commissioned as part of Changing Times, a  request for proposals from artists to address the city, its histories  and its times, in honour of the anniversary year.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A Sign for the City, a year-long public art project by Sabine Bitter\/Helmut Weber, continues in transit shelters August 15. The regular nightly boom of Vancouver&#8217;s Nine O&#8217;clock Gun is a familiar sound to those within hearing range of Stanley Park&#8217;s historic cannon. From May 2011 to April 2012, A Sign for the City<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/08\/16\/release-a-sign-for-the-city\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Release &#8211; A Sign for the City&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,40],"tags":[964,4649,5466,965,5471,792,5474,5467,1489,5472,5220,5470,33,5473,5469,931,1383,4722,214,5468,4890],"class_list":["post-2101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-transit","tag-alberta","tag-austria","tag-boulevard","tag-british-columbia","tag-british-columbia-arts-council","tag-canada","tag-charles-h-scott-gallery","tag-communitas","tag-europe","tag-government-of-canada","tag-graz","tag-helmut-weber","tag-public-art","tag-read-books-emily-carr-university-of-art","tag-sabine-bitter","tag-simon-fraser-university","tag-stanley-park","tag-the-georgia-straight","tag-vancouver-2","tag-vancouver-and-b-c","tag-vienna"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Release - A Sign for the City - Spacing Vancouver<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2011\/08\/16\/release-a-sign-for-the-city\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Release - A Sign for the City - Spacing Vancouver\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; A Sign for the City, a year-long public art project by Sabine Bitter\/Helmut Weber, continues in transit shelters August 15. 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