Arctic Film Installation

‘Gauge’ was filmed on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, on sea ice. As the monumental ice walls rise and fall upwards of 30ft due to the tidal movement of the sea, visual narratives were created using natural food colouring, that came and went with the tides. This work is a collaboration by visual artists; Danny Osborne, Alexa Hatanaka and Patrick Thompson (PA System) and Pulitzer Prize winner, composer of chamber music and performer of experimental noise music, Raven Chacon. Filmed by Sarah McNair-Landry and Eric McNair-Landry. Photography by Erik Boomer.

The 10 minute installation comprises of three screens each on a separate wall, with a 5.1 audio sound track of experimental noise music by composer Raven Chacon from PostCommodity.

‘Gauge’ has been exhibited at:

– Sonic Acts Biennial – One Sun After Another, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2022.

– Urban Shaman Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada. 2017.

– Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Boulder, USA. 2017.

– Lightening Speak: Solo and Collaborative Works of Raven Chacon, University of New Mexico Art Gallery, USA. 2016.

– Flow Edge: New art and collaborations from the north, AXENE07, Gatineau, PQ, Canada. 2016.

– Flow Edge: New art and collaborations from the north, Canada House Trafalgar Square, London, UK. 2016.

– Nuit Blanche, TIFF Bell LightBox, Toronto, Canada. 2015.

We would like to acknowledge funding support from the Canada Art Council and Nunavut Film.