Lise Beaudry repurposed an existing and functional ice hut to house an audiovisual display documenting her own experience of ice fishing with her family. The work included a small bare monitor that the artist mounted onto the unadorned plywood interior of the hut. The monitor displayed a continuous loop showing the typical ice fishing scene of her family with a soundtrack of them in casual friendly conversation. The audio was available in both French and English according to the speaker’s…
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2006
FASTWÜRMS, Ice Station Isis, 2006
For FASTWÜRMS Ice Follies project, the collective transformed their fishing hut into an esoteric set for their new occult adventure film entitled “Ice Station Isis”, inspired by the 1968 cold war thriller Ice Station Zebra. The ice fishing hut and was used as the setting for a fictional low-tech secret headquarters run by cold war Witches and a team of young interns working on mysterious experiments with rockets, neurochemistry, and submarine communications, complete with flares…
Simon Frank, Hut, 2006
For his Ice Folly, Simon Frank constructed his shelter out of both natural and man-made materials. Using the remains of a fishing hut as a substructure, the artists created a hybrid igloo using cedar branches and piled snow. Only accessible via a ladder at the top of the structure, as you descended the small of free cedar boughs proved enchanting and the interior turned out to be unexpectedly warm and lodge-like. Sitting inside, a was reminded of exhilarating hours spent making snow forests…
Lori Grace Johnson, Meander, 2006
For Ice Follies 2006, Lori Grace Johnson created Meander a work that fused remnants from our Post-industrial civilization with the natural elements: ice and water. Johnson then housed this frozen remnant in a roughly pyramid-shaped plywood sculpture. From a distance, this structure echoed a distant cupola on the Pro-Cathedral. The reference seemed to be that…
Frank Kools, Legacy, 2006
Frank Kools created an “Ice Carousel” for Ice Follies, 2006. This working kid’s carousel featured fish-shaped windows, flags, ornaments, and a beautifully painted ceiling inside. Once the “rider” went inside the hut, the “cranker” turned a wooden handle to start the carousel rotating gently. The piece echoes two conventional carousels that mark the North Bay waterfront in the summertime.
Frank Shebageget, Indian House, 2006
Frank Shebageget constructed a scale model of this childhood home that was reminiscent of a miniaturized house. Originally from Northwestern Ontario, Shebageget is of Ojibway descent and the home he was raised in was built according to blueprints devised by the Department of Indian and Northern affairs.
Peter Von Tiesenhausen, Drift, 2006
Peter Von Tiesenhausen’s project evokes the majesty and violent perfection of the natural world and its rhythms. He is interested in investing contemporary existence with a more profound connection to the radiant of nature in a manner that is neither pure ecology nor distanced irony.