<div class="gmail_quote"><br><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><strong>RENDER presents <span style="color:rgb(0, 51, 102)"><em>At The Water's Edge: Grand River Sketches</em></span> a new commissioned work by <span style="color:rgb(0, 51, 102)"><span>ALICE</span> ANGUS</span> of proboscis <br>
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<strong>University of Waterloo School of Architecture, Cambridge<br>
December 1, 2008 through February 14, 2009</strong><br>
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As part of<strong> RENDER</strong>'s ongoing creative research partnership with London UK based <strong>proboscis</strong>,
<span>Alice</span> Angus (proboscis co-director) was commissioned to develop a new
work specifically for the atrium of the UW School of Architecture in
Cambridge. Combining new media and traditional methods, Angus' project
reflects the <strong>proboscis</strong> strategy of engaging the
social, cultural and natural histories of specific sites and
territories. Furthermore, Angus brings her own particular interest in
rivers as life-lines, connectors and definers of place or (to
paraphrase a few choice thoughts from Peter Ackroyd's definitive book
on the Thames) the river as fact, as metaphor, as sacred line.<br>
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For this project, Angus has explored the Grand River from its mouth at
Port Maitland on Lake Erie to Elora. By bicycle, car, foot and kayak,
she has wandered through and around the numerous cities, towns,
villages, communities, farm fields and industrial sites the river
penetrates, defines and skirts, making focussed stops along the way at
Chiefswood National Historic Site, Paris, Galt and Kitchener. Her
inquiries have also taken her to libraries, museums and archives and
into conversations with numerous individuals whose lives have been
touched by the river. The resulting work is a potent, deeply personal
and poetic reflection on a significant body of water whose role as a
critical thread through the region is often forgotten or obscured by
more recent grids of development, pathways of transportation and
community boundaries. As with her other explorations of water (such as
the Rivers Nene and Ouse in East Anglia and her project Topographies
and Tales set in Scotland and the Canadian north) <em>At The Water's Edge: Grand River Sketches</em> maps a dialogue between the artist and place, emphasizing a process of inquiry that promises to continue. <br>
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At the heart of <strong>RENDER</strong>'s ongoing collaboration with <strong>proboscis</strong> is creative research grounded in local history and the built environment. Past collaborative projects have included <em>AnArchaeology and The Accidental Menagerie. At the Water's Edge</em> will be further developed into a publication and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">proboscis</span> will play a central role in <strong>RENDER</strong>'s upcoming GROUNDWORK community garden project at <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">rare</span>.<br>
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Contact:<br>
Andrew Hunter, <strong>RENDER</strong> Director/Curator <br>
<a href="mailto:renderprojects@gmail.com" target="_blank">renderprojects@gmail.com</a> <br>
or<br>
Barbara Hobot, <strong>RENDER</strong> Curator-in-residence<br>
<a href="mailto:renderevents@gmail.com" target="_blank">renderevents@gmail.com</a> <br>
<a href="http://www.render.uwaterloo.ca/" target="_blank">www.render.uwaterloo.ca</a> <br>
519-888-4567 x33575<br>
and<br>
<a href="http://www.proboscis.uk.org/" target="_blank">www.proboscis.uk.org</a> </span><br clear="all"><font color="#888888"></font><br>
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