2018 Yukon Riverside Arts Festival 2018ArtsFestBrochure_web | Page 11

The Natural & The Manufactured is an annual thematic collaboration between the ODD Gallery and
the KIAC Artist in Residence Program. Conceived as a speculative research and presentation forum,
the N&M looks to the myriad ways in which we both influence and are influenced by our natural and
constructed environments. Each year two artists are invited to Dawson City to undertake a residency
culminating in an ODD Gallery exhibition and public installation.
For the Natural & The Manufactured 2018, the 14th annual edition of the project, guest curator,
Michael McCormack (Halifax,NS), has invited this year’s artists, Josh Winkler (Minnesota) & Lindsay
Dobbin (Bay of Fundy, NB) to create new, site-specific work for INFO/FLOE. Josh Winkler’s work was
created during his residency in Dawson and will be on view in the ODD Gallery. Lindsay Dobbin’s
work is being created remotely; from the intertidal zone of the Bay of Fundy, in collaboration with
participants here in Dawson City; at the Yukon River.
Since 2005, this unique project in the far Canadian north has worked to stimulate and engage artists
and the community in a re-examination of cultural and economic values imposed on the environment.
Participants present alternative political, social, economic and aesthetic agendas and strategies
towards a re-interpretation of the regional landscape and social infrastructure. The full project archive
is available online at naturalmanufactured.com.
The ODD Gallery gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Yukon Tourism and Culture, Parks
Canada, Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre, CFYT Radio, the Gallery and Artist-in-Residence committee and our volunteers.
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