SUMMONING (NO WORDS) at Oxygen Art Centre Summoning (No Words), an interactive sound installation built from the female voice, is taking up residence at Oxygen Art Centre this month. The project is made up of original sung compositions contributed by a seven-member team of award winning Canadian female vocalists and composers. Local singers Allison Girvan and Bessie Wapp are among the singers that have contributed. An interactive experience, participants will move through gallery and their movement will stimulate the women’s voices. Other contributors include Tanya Tagaq, Vandana Vishwas, Sandy Scofield,
Read More »The Kissing Project is on Google Street View! Vancouver artist, Sylvia Grace Borda, in partnership with Nelson area residents have worked together to create the first staged net artworks in the Columbia Basin area to reside in Google Street view. Borda is known for her pioneering work to create unconventional photographic staging and to produce the first ever global artworks in Google Street View in 2013. For her iteration in Nelson, the artist has invited participates to be caught in a staged kiss for the camera. The resultant images
Read More »Kissing Project – Sylvia Grace Borda Exhibition dates: June 9 – July 8, 2017* Gallery hours: Wednesday to Saturday from 1-5pm (*Closed July 1st for Canada Day) Exhibition opening: Thursday, June 8th from 7- 9pm ArtWalk opening: June 23rd from 6-9pm Throughout this Spring, Sylvia Grace Borda has been the artist in residence at the Oxygen Art Centre developing her ‘Kissing Project.’ The artist’s proposal is not what you would expect – she has aimed to create contemporary artworks, celebrating local and cultural values of love and peace, while
Read More »Kissing Project – Sylvia Grace Borda Exhibition dates: June 9 – July 8, 2017* Gallery hours: Wednesday to Saturday from 1-5pm (*Closed July 1st for Canada Day) Exhibition opening: Thursday, June 8th from 7- 9pm ArtWalk opening: June 23rd from 6-9pm Throughout this Spring, Sylvia Grace Borda has been the artist in residence at the Oxygen Art Centre developing her ‘Kissing Project.’ The artist’s proposal is not what you would expect – she has aimed to create contemporary artworks, celebrating local and cultural values
Read More »We are seeking volunteers from the Nelson community to be part of the ‘KISSING Project’ Event takes place on April 7th and 8th – you can be part of Nelson’s future!!! Did you know that the City of Nelson has one of the most culturally diverse communities in Canada! – Artist-in-residence, Sylvia Grace Borda, wants to capture this embracing spirit among those who call Nelson home! She is interested in using the idea of the “kiss” as a welcoming symbol to profile the richness of Nelson’s community, and to excite
Read More »The Oxygen Art Centre is pleased to be hosting Sylvia Grace Borda as artist in residence in the City this Spring through June. Sylvia Grace Borda is exploring how image-making challenges and enhances our experience of place, time, culture and perception through the delivery of her ‘Kissing Project.’ The artist’s project uses the metaphor and action of a ‘kiss’ as a platform to enhance the existing image of Nelson. She is hoping to make Nelson the interior’s cultural capital of ‘amour’ through her images. Inspired by the Touchstones Museum’s photograph
Read More »Join artist and curator Maggie Shirley in a discussion about art in public places and her recent role as residency manager at Oxygen Art Centre. Shirley’s talk will include a discussion of the residency process of Mexican artist César Damiån, whom spent the month of August in residence at Oxygen Art Centre. The outcomes of Damiån’s residency will be on exhibition at Oxygen Art Centre during Culture Days. Admission is free and everyone is welcome Oxygen Art Centre’s Culture Days 2016 schedule: Friday, September 30th from 1-5pm: Exhibition “Traces” by
Read More »FRONDA (Mexican artist collective) in Nelson for discussion Join artist in residence César Damián at the Oxygen Art Centre on Saturday, August 27th at 4pm for a discussion on FRONDA, a platform for interdisciplinary art based in Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico. Damián is co-founder of this unique non-profit organization whose mandate is to promote artistic discipline in rural and urban spaces, with an interest in cross-cultural and disciplinary exchanges between Mexico and Canada. Damián will be joined by Elena Barba who is co-founder of FRONDA, and Haruko Okano who has
Read More »Time Capsule / Memory Capsule If we had the option to receive messages from the past how would we receive them? Would it be possible to respond to these messages? Would these messages help us better understand our place? Could we better understand our identity? Is it possible to have a dialogue with future generations? Time Capsule is a project that tries to generate a reflection about who we are as a society. It is not a real capsule, it is a metaphorical space conceived as an encounter and
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