Proposal

for Public Art Committee

May 31, 2017

Submitted By:

Victoria Strange
Executive Director
Revelstoke Visual Arts Centre

Luna Team: Victoria Strange, Miriam Manley, Rob Buchanan, Nico Leenders, Jana Thompson

Luna is a new arts festival opening September 30th from 6pm midnight. The festival will run
for one week until October 8th. Local and visiting artists have been selected through a jury
process to create unique art installations though the city. Many of these eye-catching,
intriguing works of art have an interactive component. Site-specific pieces involve lighting,
sound, projection and movement. The familiar is transformed into something new and
fantastic. This festival has Arts promotion and Economic Development as its primary goals, as
we hope to build Revelstoke as an arts and culture destination.

The schedule of Luna is as follows:

Friday, Sept 29th 6pm 9pm
Pre-event reception at the Visual Arts Centre
Opening of Rooms, an installation exhibition part of the Luna festival.

Saturday, Sept 30th 6pm Midnight
Opening night of Luna where visitors have 6 hours to discomver art installations selectively
placed within the downtown core, enhanced with music, food, performances and business
events that will run concurrently during the evening.
Evening performance at Explorers Society

Oct 1 -8th: Businesses will be open as normal. Some performance pieces will be adapted to
video loops for viewing.

Saturday, Oct 8th 9pm
Closing night party (Traverse?)

List of Projects:
This list is a complete projects list of work associated with Luna, however, we are still actively in
the process of making connections with local businesses regarding their adjunct participation
for the festival. This can include other art projects that may be unveiled within a business or
storefront. An example is: Dose has a planned mural for their wall and efforts are being made
to unveil their project at the same time as Luna.
Krista Stovel, Jacqueline Pendergast, Nicola McGarry, Francine Lanoie, Sandra Flood, Julia
Crucil
ROOMS

Kick-off the Luna festival with this installation based art exhibition at the Visual Arts Centre.
Each artist has interpreted a room from a home, recreating it within the gallery. Each artist
explores their own theme. Visitors interact with each room through sight and sound. This
opening night acts as a pre-event reception for the downtown projects of Luna.

Materials:
Mixed media

Considerations:
Have map of Luna available for pick up at opening reception
Special invites created for sponsors for the reception

Location:
Revelstoke Visual Arts Centre


Lucie Bergeron
The Umbrella Walk

Colourful umbrellas spanning an alleyway, creating a cover from the elements, and a fun
engaging installation.

Materials:
Coated wire for lines
Multi-coloured umbrellas

Considerations / Safety:
Donation of umbrellas after exhibit to Tourist centre? Keep for future installations?
Lucie has friends and family (engineer) who can lend technical support for install. Umbrellas
need fixing so they will not blow away.
Alleyway has delivery trucks to go underneath umbrellas and electrical wires aboveheight is
an issue for install. Anchor bolts can be installed on Explorers side, Medical clinic side is still yet
determined

Location:
Alleyway by Explorers Society 63 long x 10.5 wide = 54 umbrellas 42 (3 umbrellas wide x 18
umbrellas long) Maybe shorten it and add some umbrellas at lower heights here and there.



Kate Tupper
Heavenly Bodies

A twelve-foot planetarium with light up windows which you can enter. The concept is to teach
humans how big and how small they are.

Scale:
Footprint at least 6 to 8
Height is 12
Windows are cast resin
Frame is steel with a sheet metal skin

Considerations / Safety:
Work is meant to be seen from distance.
Electrical outlet needed.
Work will be large and heavy enough so it will not tip. Anchoring considered. Kate is also a
welder and has created other large scale works. She has BC grant behind this project.

Location:
TBA
The Cabin?
MacKenzie in front of Gazebo?

Angela Gooliaff
Colouring Book

This glow in the dark giant colouring book mural will celebrate the worlds only temperate
inland rainforest surrounding the city. Imagery will include old growth vegetation, animals in
sunlight setting. Animal components will come alive during the night with their glowing eyes
and body outlines. Animals typically seen during the daylight hours will be woven into the
mural, but nocturnal species will be prominent in the night.

Considerations:
Work will have public interaction (painting)
This work could potentially be a permanent for business
Paint directly on the wall was planned.

Location:
Inside Taco Club on large long wall above bench seating.

Sarah Dart
Camera Obscura

Along the theme of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, visitors would enter through
wardrobe drawers, revealing an upside down and backwards perspective on the street they just
walked in from.

Materials:
Shed, either constructed or found
Wardrobe for doors

Considerations / Safety:
There is the potential for visitors to use this room interactively by having a pen and paper on
hand and use the camera to draw the reflected image a la Vermeer.
Piece will be large and heavy enough to avoid blowing over.

Location:
MacKenzie in front of City Hall

Michelle Spragg
Starlight

A painting of the nights sky, with lights installed to make the stars glow. The piece would be
installed overhead within an indoor space.

Materials:
Acrylic on vellum. Lights behind work.

Size: Along ceiling from front door to counter.

Considerations:
Weight of work, electrical, hanging system in Big Mountain Kitchen. Magnet system weight is 5
-10 pounds per magnet.

Location:
Big Mountain Kitchen

Rhoneil Eurchuk and Jason Mannings
Nature//Cosmos

A multi-media live performance telling the story of birth, growth, decay, death, and
resurrection. It composes of an album created in tandem with the lunar cycles of one year. As
the songs are performed live, the projectionist weaves together beautiful footage of landscape.

Considerations: Time of performance? Video loop can be produced by Jason

Location: Explorers Society event space

Miriam Manley, Andrew Manley
Things that go BOO in the night!

A grouping of eight tents in the disused lot behind City Hall. On their own they will be evocative
of a protest gathering, music festival and/or mountaineer camp. Added to this, each tent will
have a light with built in speaker in it. Every 20 minutes during the evening there will be timed
audio visual effects made up of sounds that people camping in tents experience, such as
thunder and lightning, rustling leaves, howling wind, footsteps, rain, snoring, voices, etc.

Materials:
8 bulbs with built in speakers: Playbulb e26, Smart LED Light bulb with Speaker
8 old tents
8 lamps

Considerations / Safety:
Weather proofing on speakers and electrical will be done
Can work with batteries to avoid long lengths of electrical
If electrical needed, we can work with Revelstoke Electric to assist with set up.

Location:
Empty lot behind City Hall request pending with Emily Beaumont as contact for property
owner


Jacqueline Palmer
Beauty, Wildlife, Industry

The theme of Revelstoke is explored through imagery that reflects the natural beauty of the
area (forest, mountains, river), the wildlife (grizzly, long toed salamander, caribou), and the
industry (logging, railyway, hydro, recreation). This is a relief sculpture that incorporates a
water feature which spills through areas of the piece.

Materials:
Paper clay sculpture with ceramic shards, wood structure backing

Size: 7 high x 12 long

Considerations / Safety:
Electrical outlet for water pumps
Large plain wall needed

Location:
Telus building. Large wall. Outlet?

Kaityln Murphy and Nancy Lewis Keith
Deep Sea Luminescence

The bus shelter will hold sculptures that are lit by fibre optics and LEDs. Aquatic sculptural
lanterns and various lighting made with fibre optics and LED lights will be constructed and
arranged in the space to give viewers a deep-sea experience.

Materials: sculpture, LED, fibre optics

Considerations / Safety: Bus Shelter needs securing, power needed (from gazebo?), testing will
need to occur before installation. Shelter still needs to be functional.

Location: Bus Shelter in front of Royal Bank on Mackenzie Ave.

Claudia Bambi
The Drifters

Driftwood pieces attached to an 8 long base, painted in colourful paints, mimicking the sunset
reflecting in the water of the Columbia River. Lights at the base will highlight the work at night.

Materials:
Driftwood, Wood
Lighting Battery operated

Size: 8 long, but this can be altered

Considerations:
Driftwood secured on base so no tipping factor

Location: Back of Regent in front of glass block area (location yet to be confirmed)

Nicola McGarry and Claire Seiber
SilvaLoom

SilvaLoom aims to integrate tactile impressions of forest culture through the creation of two
large scale woven tree sculptures. Silva is Latin for forests and woods, Loom is the structure
used to weave cloth or tapestry. One woven sculpture will be completed by Nicola and Claire
for display. The second will be installed as a structure only and invites the audience to complete
it over the course of the festival.

Scale: 12 high x 5 ft wide

Materials: chicken wire, paper mache (weather coated) Woven elements: bark, flagging tape,
chainsaw chain, laces, plants, moss, feathers, etc.

Considerations /Safety: Trees will be free standing, potentially anchored to ground so works
cannot be tipped.

Location: TBA


Sarah Spurr
Secret Gardens

A free standing box with a view hole which reveals the sculptural fantasy within it. Taking a
peak reveals a world of glowing moss, webs, and creatures. Mirrors of different shapes and
sizes will line the box, distorting the space and giving the illusion of water. Black light will be
used. A picture from a few feet away will show a purply glowing key hole, a picture taken up
close will capture the glowing contents.

Size: aprox 4 square, hole will be large enough to hold a cell phone inside and so people can
have a good look.

Considerations: power source required

Location: Inside Monashee Distillary (yet to be confirmed)

Zuzana Riha
Caribou House

A sculptural installation featuring life sized caribou standing on the front lawn of Caribou House
on the main street. Overlooking the caribou, high in the tree, sits Ullr, God of Snow and Winter.

Scale: life sized caribou, larger than life sized Ullr

Materials: pencil rod frame, fabric, paper, will be able to endure weather

Considerations: Lighting required

Location: Caribou House front lawn, across from Main Street Caf


Rob Buchanan, Jess Leahey, Greg Hoffart (Tree Construction)
Snow Globe

In this installation, the Revelstoke bandshell will be transformed into a life size snow globe.
Outside are two intermpretive panels one by retired economist and resident Ken Norrie about
the value of snow to Revelstokes economy and another by high school student Carlos Serrouya
about climate change and his scientific data about changing snow accumulation over the last 3
decades. Guests are invited to enter the globe, have fun, create photos, all while considering
the value of snow for a healthy Revelstoke economy.

Location: MacKenzie gazebo

Materials: wood and plastic tetrahedron panels assembled to form enclosure, 2-D cut outs to
create mini scene, artificial snow (potato flakes), fans or blowers to blow snow

Considerations: Repurpose panels to create a greenhouse for the Visual Arts Centre or LFI.
Electrical needed for fans to blow potato flakes

Sherry Heyliger and Michael John Hornyak
Through the Looking Glass

Liquid Aura meets Light Paint HiR
An interactive visual installation designed to shift perspective and allow one to see themselves
in a new light. Utilizing Kootenay built software, an experience of light, color, music and
motion is created through real time manipulation of live captures of participants. Projection of
these momentary flights of fanciful selves will stage a digital hall of mirrors.

Considerations:
A contained space that can accommodate 12 feet of projection and be at least 15 feet in length
Video and audio: 6kW min provided via 10 gauge power cable.
Ceiling height needs to be sufficient to elevate projectors to height of at least 10 feet off the
floor

Location:
To be determined.
Indoors preferred

Jess Leahey, Natalie Harris, Josee Zimyani, Rob Buchanan
Persistence of Vision

Static scenes and subjects come to life through interactive vintage toys such as zoetropes and
flip books. Andedible zoetropes!

Considerations:
Stability of works not an issuesecurity? Works may need to come inside each night?

Location: Outdoors between Modern Bakeshop and City Hall. Edibles within Modern Bakeshop.

Frank Desrosier, Rob Buchanan, Chris Payne
Avalanche Canada, Canadian Avalanch Association
Snowflake Video Installation

From the point of view of lying on your back looking up a a new winter sky, watch as Revelstoke
snowflakes hypnotically fall to the ground. Made up of the friendly faces of Canadas premier
snow experts: the staff of Avalanche Canada and the Canadian Avalanche Association.

Location: Side of Pulse (to be confirmed)

Considerations: Projector needed

Amy Bohigian
Arc

This video installation fuses historical and modern photos using animation and sound design.
This outdoor projection both posits and plays with how our local communities shift over time.

Location:
Museum and Archives Garden wall
Ask permission from building owner

Materials:
Low cost projector

Considerations:
Video can be projected out of window from inside onto wall of garden.

La End
Street Performance / Screening

In the style of early 20th century silent films, La End pays homage to the era of Charlie Chaplin,
Buster Keaton and Georges Melies. La End features a dancer and a fiddler engaging in a series
of moments in the life of a couple, turning commonplace situations into the laughably
ridiculous.

Location:
various moving locations within downtown for live performance

Considerations:
Opening Night only for live performance
digital video screening for luna duration in store front windows (to be determined)


Trip to the Moon Screening

Location: To be determined. Back side of building near Explorers?

Materials:
Projector

Considerations:
For Opening Night only

Petra Holler
Roaming Shadow Puppetry and Projection

A contemporary shadow puppet performance using a cordless projector and three
magnifying glass lenses to expand and distort images. Miniature objects, found materials, and
drawings on acetate create mesmerizing and surprisingly three dimensional displays.

Materials:
Cordless, analogue projector, will project up to 6 ft in diameter

Location:
Roaming locations throughout the downtown, indoor and out

Considerations:
Night time, darkness needed. Begin performance when it gets dark

Macromatter: Isabelle Kirouac Arevalo and Robert Leveroos
Alien Forms

Audiences will encounter inanimate alien forms that create a composition in response to a
specific site: a family of neon green forms scattered across a field; clumped in an urban
streetscape, or tucked in amongst a forest scene. In each case, these alien forms are slowly
activated by the two performers, and the created object-scape within the given landscape
begins to morph. We see limbs pop out, cubes waddle across the yard; they flog on their sides
and scuttle past.

Considerations:
Can be durational for passersby to stumble upon or exist for a set time of 10 -12 min.
Video loop for duration of festival?

Location:
To be determined (various sites on the sidewalks? Or in alleyways?

Drum-J Si (Simon Hunt) and Bruce Thomas
Light and Music Show Closing Night

End the opening night of Luna with a music party! No fee for access.

Location:
Explorers Society

ParkyPine
Parky Pine
Luna Promo Piece

What IS that? Lets get people talking about Luna. One week before the install, Parkypine will sit
downtown with a stand holding flyers / maps of Luna. Get ready for the night!

Location:
Various locations parked downtown on Mackenzie a week before Luna and potentially during
festival.
In front of LFI food market on Saturdays (need to speak with them)

Considerations:
Parking exception required from City to park longer than 2 hrs.

The Rocket
Luna Promo Piece

What IS that? Lets get people talking about Luna. During the summer months, The Rocket will
pop up at various locations downtown with a stand holding flyers / maps of Luna. Get ready for
the night!

Location:
MacKenzie in front of Gazebo area
In front of LFI food market on Saturdays (Mackenzie and 2nd) need to speak with them.
In front of Aquatic Centre

Rob Buchanan
PowderSlug

Open for rides once again! Take a trip on the powder slug and go from one art installation to
another on opening night.