Publication: C: International Contemporary Art
Publication Date: 22-MAR-06
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
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Every city has its boundaries between private and public space, between nature and the urban world. The delimitations between them can be solid or permeable, opaque or imagined. Andrew Dadson makes the space of these invisible distinctions apparent to see how they can be breached and stretched.
In Vancouver these boundaries are explicitly defined. On the grand scale of landscape, the city itself is claustrophobically cradled between ocean and mountains, while on a suburban level rows and rows of neighbours crouch anonymously next to one another, the boundaries between them numbered avenues and backyards. It is in these backyards, on these roofs and quiet streets that Dadson has carried out a series of actions, all executed with a casual efficiency, that question where the ownership of space begins and ends.
Through the act of climbing--whether it be climbing up and walking across the roof of the former Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver building on Hamilton Street or ascending the cranes at partially built condominium developments in Vancouver's Yaletown--Dadson began to articulate the invisible space of occupancy and how easily that space can be traversed. In the double-screen video projection...
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