... strange things done ...
Eliza Houg (NSCAD and YSOVA alumnus, 2013)
Pretty Noisy, 2015
Eliza Houg has been exploring how the meeting place of pinhole and related low-tech image formation
can be used in the creation of experimental videos. Through collaborative initiatives at NSCAD
she has taken these interests to a public realm by way of interactive, installation-based projects in
“casual settings” and by “engaging a critical audience in a comfortable cinema-space.” Houg will
conduct a public workshop in the week leading up to the Midnight Sun Camera Obscura Festival and
participants’ resultant works will be screened at an off-site space as an extension of the Confluence
Gallery exhibition.
Devon Lindsay (TRU alumnus, BFA, 2015)
Greenstone Repeater, 2014
Devon Lindsay’s Greenstone Repeater, presents two views of Greenstone Mountain, near Kamloops.
The panoramic view that these still images present of the mountain vista are a visual foil for what
attracts Lindsay to this particular site: the array of radio towers on the mountain’s summit. From police
signals to the communications of ham radio enthusiasts Lindsay’s work “is a contemplation about the
myriad of electronic signals and the active, yet silent, communication present at this site” and of its
outward silence. It is “only the sound of the wind” that is readily apparent at the Greenstone site.
Bo Yeung (TRU Alumnus, BFA, 2011) Hold Tight, Keep It Adrift, 2015
Having lived primarily in Dawson City since 2011, Bo Yeung has an interest in the local, vernacular
architecture of the town’s streets and alleyways. For the past two years Yeung has lived in one of
Dawson’s smaller historic cabins and is now residing above one of the town’s primary historic retail
buildings; such experience giving her a lived-in knowledge of Dawson’s architecture. Viewers will have
the opportunity to don headgear of cloth and papier-mâché construction. These will be representations
of Dawson City homes that are no longer standing.
Midnight Sun Camera Obscura Festival