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During the Natural & the Manufactured residency in the summer of 2018, Dobbin
and Winkler will create and present new works that continue their practice of
deep listening, research, and correlation with the land, considering the natural
environment as an active storyteller, performer, archivist, and foundation to
our survival as a species. The final presentation will cumulate during the Yukon
Riverside Arts Festival with an installation of Winkler’s work in the ODD Gallery and
a temporary performance and a site-specific radio installation of Dobbin’s work with
local collaborators.
Involving participatory performance, sound, and installation, Dobbin’s work
is ecocentric, using listening as wayfinding. Their work intends to deepen our
relationship with the natural world, and bridge our relationships with the natural
environment that have been fragmented and scattered through colonization and
industrialization.
Josh Winkler’s work involves in-depth research and consideration of materials that
are found in the area of the Klondike, recorded and reproduced as manufactured
objects. Through bringing these objects into the gallery setting, Winkler intersects
his studio work with installation work, bringing materials gathered from his walks
and hikes into a place of critical contemplation, thus problematizing, and opening a
conversation that reconsiders objects of “historic significance”.
Throughout this project, both artists have been carefully considering the flow of
information and how it is experienced, and eventually absorbed by our physical
surroundings. It is an opportunity to reflect on how all forms of information intake
influences our memories that are passed on through artifact, recorded information,
environmental evidence, storytelling, or art making.
— Michael McCormack 2018
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