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![]() Ingrid Koivukangas, "5 Circle Project: Vancouver", Installation at CBC Studios, Vancouver, 2002 |
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Ingrid Koivukangas
From her native Canada Ingrid Koivukangas brings a naturalist's sensibility to her multimedia projects and installations. Her work relies on a variety of techniques which all serve to bring nature to people's attention. Where are they from? What are these things? Koivukangas uses site-specific ephemeral works, photography, video, sound, installation, collage and the internet. "I work at and from sites in the natural world. Viewers are encouraged to leave gallery settings with maps to find ephemeral site specific works or sites that natural materials in the gallery came from. The gallery work itself has ranged from installations bringing site materials to the gallery via video, photography, sound to framed works that combine site photographs with topographic maps, aerial photographs, stereoscopic glasses, GPS readings and natural site materials -- that combined, act as a map to the site." Rows and boxes containing seeds of different shapes, leaves, flowers and abstract organic forms create a taxonomic grid of the little bits and pieces Canadian nature has to offer. Like an illuminated Rolodex of beautiful and familiar shapes, Koivukangas shows us what we're missing and more importantly where to find more of it by linking the object to its source. When a map and the world which conceived it become one, our own experience in the land and our own responsibility as stewards also converge. Ingid Koivukangas is that rare artist who manages to use technology to actually increase our connections to the natural world. Information GreenHouse, A collaborative project on greenmuseum.org Artist in Daily Mining Gazette Share your comments about this artist and their work
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