where white pines lay over the water
sound and new media
The intention of this artwork is to grapple with the body, memory and Indigenous knowledge with in a large urban city space such as Toronto. The installation will consist of two large scale painted archival maps on the walls of the gallery and will have two projectors showing images overlay of the paintings. There will be sound narrative that will tell different stories of each place. The artwork will investigate which bodies are seen, heard and presence in a completing colonial landscape such as Canada. There is a particular ability to view the landscape allowing one to ‘see’ the layers of knowledge buried in the land and to hear the environment, which sings the song of the transformation of time, space and memory. The land has the ability to retain memories of significant value as it has bore witness spanning millennia to the individual events and occurrences that have shaped our surroundings as Indigenous people.
Interactive Virtual Map
where white pines lay over the water includes an interactive virtual map.
How to use the map online: Click on the arrow buttons to listen. How to use this map IRL: Get on the Toronto subway's Bloor line, heading west. Get off at Jane station, exit, and walk north on Jane St. Turn right onto Baby Point Rd; at Humbercrest Blvd, look at the Black Oak tree. Keep right on Baby Point; at the tennis courts you will see the Carrying Place Plaque. You will see two large White Pine trees and a stairway going down into the Park. At the playground, keep left down a paved path. At the end you will see the Plaque before the bridge. Cross the bridge, walk down Old Mill Rd and you will end up at Old Mill subway station.
Response by Tarah Hogue
“learning to canoe and learning to listen are the same”, On Julie Nagam’s white pines lay over the water.
Tarah Hogue is a curator and writer of French/Dutch/Métis heritage originally from the prairies. Based in Vancouver BC, she received an MA in Art History, Critical and Curatorial Studies from the University of British Columbia in 2012.
