Off-Site Projects
Mike Yuhasz
Setting the camera obscura in motion, Mike Yuhasz, a former resident of Dawson City, has
converted a van into a mobile camera obscura. Passengers seated inside the darkened interior
of Vanscura will see an inverted projection of the street scene that is unfolding beside them as
the van is driven slowly around the streets of Dawson. Yuhasz, in the role of driver and tour guide,
will provide a narrative tale of the unfolding scene; a personal riff on the guided tours that are a
part of the streetscape of this goldrush-town-cum-historic-site. Yuhasz was Coordinator of Dawson
City’s ODD Gallery at the time that this festival was first conceived in 2004.
(The Great Art of Light and Shadow (Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae))
(qtd in: Glassine, John. A Man of Misconceptions: The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change. New York: Riverhead Books, 2012,)
Dawson City, Yukon, Canada