Theme: Thin IceThe 2023 theme “Thin Ice” looks at our shifting landscapes and communities, including our changing relationships with our environment and each other.Emilio Portal, Untitled, 2023 Presented by Between Pheasants Contemporary More info coming...
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Lee Horner, Dead of Winter, 2023
Theme: Thin IceThe 2023 theme “Thin Ice” looks at our shifting landscapes and communities, including our changing relationships with our environment and each other.Lee Horner, Dead of Winter, 2023 Presented by Nipissing Region Curatorial Collective More info...
Imogen Clendenning, Archive on Ice, 2023
Archive on Ice involves creating a digital mini archive of documentation from past Ice Follies events and a live microsite that is powered by a solar panel and hosted with a raspberry pie server. The server is housed in a protective art installation on the frozen ice of Lake Nipissing. Imogen hopes to create a reciprocal relationship with the lake and present the technology as a collaboration with the earth rather than an extraction of resources…
Quinn Hopkins, 2023
For Ice Follies 10th Anniversary Biennial, Quinn Hopkins is excited to be creating a part physical, part augmented reality (AR) activated installation titled “Limited/Limitless”. As part of the installation, physical artwork will be placed on the ice and used as a target for AR activation. Through a QR code, all viewers with cell phones will be able to access a virtual world hidden behind the lens of the viewers cell phone, revealing the hidden world under the ice and the delicate balance of the ecosystem that is vital to our way of life.
Liz Lott, An Ice Follies 10th Year Retrospective – A Downtown Walking Tour, 2023
To commemorate Ice Follies’ 10th Anniversary (2004-2023), the event’s official documentation photographer will hold a celebratory exhibition, showcasing past biennial events and the amazing participating artists. Coinciding with the opening of Ice Follies 2023 on Friday, February 10th, nine (***) storefront windows in North Bay’s 100 Block West will chronologically highlight images from each year…
Cease Wyss, A visit to the Underwater World of Gichi-nibiinsing-zaag’igan, 2023
THEME: NBAAGZI MKWAM (THIN ICE) Under the Surface was chosen because it represents the efforts behind the scenes to make Ice Follies 2012 more community-oriented and engaging. With artists travelling from across the country to work alongside of local artists,...
Andrew Ackerman, Chris Kosloski, Quinn Pelletier, and Nipissing University Fine Arts Students, im•pulse, 2023
THEME: NBAAGZI MKWAM (THIN ICE) Under the Surface was chosen because it represents the efforts behind the scenes to make Ice Follies 2012 more community-oriented and engaging. With artists travelling from across the country to work alongside of local artists,...
Public Visualization Studios, Innumerable Ones, 2022
THEME: NBAAGZI MKWAM (THIN ICE) Under the Surface was chosen because it represents the efforts behind the scenes to make Ice Follies 2012 more community-oriented and engaging. With artists travelling from across the country to work alongside of local artists,...
Aanmitaagzi, All My R(el)ations, 2023
THEME: NBAAGZI MKWAM (THIN ICE) Under the Surface was chosen because it represents the efforts behind the scenes to make Ice Follies 2012 more community-oriented and engaging. With artists travelling from across the country to work alongside of local artists,...
Aanmitaagzi, Mkomiiwi: (Turns to Ice) Installation & Performance, 2020
Aanmitaagzi has presented as part of the Ice Follies festival as a presenter and co-producer for the past 5 festivals. For Ice Follies 2020, Aanmitaagzi presented works developed through their Where Does Art Begin? project. This included several installations on the lake and a performance, which took place on February 22, 2020…