KEVIN YATES & ROBERT YATES | MIGRATORY (PATTERNS)
Off-site Installation (Ruby’s Place)
Project Statement
For their off-site exhibition, Robert Yates and Kevin Yates made video-recordings of
migratory bird species in Dawson City, and then created video wallpapers from which
birds come and go.
The wallpaper patterns are informed by decorative motifs once popular in the
Klondike, including a wallpaper once used in Ruby’s Place, a historical Parks Canada
building. The videos will be installed on two separate floors in Ruby’s Place. The
footage will be edited so that a bird leaving one projection will arrive moments later
in the second projection, and vice versa.
Birds migrate across cultural boundaries as if all geographies are home. Through
its bird-oriented contemplation of travel, migratory (patterns) presents a new
contemplation of global connectivity and human migration.
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