Local(i)ty
Local(i)ty is an account of the current cultural production of three artists, who live in centres outside the mainstream cities of Canada. This project occupies the hybrid space of personal narrative and creative and critical discourse. The artists chosen for this project live outside of cultural centres, yet it is their choice to address their artistic concerns from these locations.
Local(i)ty is a project that aims to discuss and record the work of these three artists producing work within vibrant, yet smaller communities of British Columbia. This essay focuses to articulate the differences of small versus large centres within the concerns of what art can be seen as today, where it can be produced, and how it can be given an audience. Writers such as Daniel Baird use phrasing such as “creative communities in regions cut off from a cultural centre like New York”[1], and Baird suggests that these major cultural centres produce the meanings that communicate the contemporary issues surrounding art. Yet, the curator Ihor Holubizky[2] explains that ideas have a larger life than just being isolated in cultural centers in the sense that any place imports and exports meaning. Holubizky proposes that the creative, cultural, and critical ideas found within our global discourse are constantly circulating.
See also: Local(i)ty 2
See also: Local(i)ty 3
Local(i)ty is an account of the current cultural production of three artists, who live in centres outside the mainstream cities of Canada. This project occupies the hybrid space of personal narrative and creative and critical discourse. The artists chosen for this project live outside of cultural centres, yet it is their choice to address their artistic concerns from these locations.
Local(i)ty is a project that aims to discuss and record the work of these three artists producing work within vibrant, yet smaller communities of British Columbia. This essay focuses to articulate the differences of small versus large centres within the concerns of what art can be seen as today, where it can be produced, and how it can be given an audience. Writers such as Daniel Baird use phrasing such as “creative communities in regions cut off from a cultural centre like New York”[1], and Baird suggests that these major cultural centres produce the meanings that communicate the contemporary issues surrounding art. Yet, the curator Ihor Holubizky[2] explains that ideas have a larger life than just being isolated in cultural centers in the sense that any place imports and exports meaning. Holubizky proposes that the creative, cultural, and critical ideas found within our global discourse are constantly circulating.
See also: Local(i)ty 2
See also: Local(i)ty 3