Festival Wrap-up

Friday, August 29, and Saturday, August 30
Noon – 5:00 p.m.
Bison Courtyard, 211A Bear Street
Free

Footnotes (Banff) 2008

Kay Burns, artist, Calgary
Footnotes (Banff) has been created as part of a self-directed co-production residency at the Banff Centre with the Banff New Media Institute’s Mobile Lab. It is a locative-media audio walk allowing the viewers’ presence within a space to activate the sound. This walking experience is punctuated with sound triggered by the participants’ geophysical positions and delivered through GPS cell phones/headsets. This project takes as its starting point the underlying notion that we have a connection to place that is shared, nurtured, and cultivated through story and lore. The spoken-word audio elements allude to factual or plausible history of the site combined with fiction; they are delivered as a first person narrative giving the participant a glimpse into a more personal and intimate interpretation of each region as lived and experienced by a past resident/visitor. The content alludes to paradoxes and attributes of human presence within a national park, as well as human interrelation associated with place. The stories are from multiple points of view, a series of sound vignettes of recollections across time and place.

Walks will be scheduled at noon and 3:00 p.m.. To book a time, please contact steve_woollard@banffcentre.ca or 1-403-762-7500.