Library chair readymade sculpture created by Site Stories students. Photo: Rachel Topham.

Library chair readymade sculpture created by Site Stories students. Photo: Rachel Topham.

Site Stories
co-created with Mark Cunningham
2016-17

Over 14 weeks, Julie Hammond and Mark Cunningham, in collaboration with classroom teachers Jenny Simpson and Dragana Sacco and guest artists Barbara Adler and Alexandra Spence, led 58 grade 10 students at New Westminster Secondary School in explorations of site, sound, and material in service of discovering and telling the stories of their school. Inspired by conceptual art practices, readymades, soundmaps, performance, lazy art, and graffiti, and situated within the overlapping explorations of site / sight / and cite, students developed projects (solo and collaborative) which culminated in a three day exhibition at NWSS. 

Project dates: September 2016-January 2017

Project blog: nwsssitestories.blogspot.ca

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Site Stories was made possible in part by an ArtStarts Artist in the Classroom Grant and the NWSS PAC.

A time capsule in reverse. A love letter of hopes, dreams and fears. A labyrinth of connectivity. Cause and Effect: Young People's Perspectives on Past, Present and Future is an exhibition presenting a selection of projects from Kindergarten to Grade 12 students from 9 different schools across BC that unpack the question, What effects do the different layers of history, place and context that construct our present have on our future? From engineering contraptions that produce a chain reaction to sound mapping, 1,717 students made insightful reflections about place, memory and myth, interpreting narratives from the past and present—and making their own for the future. What narratives will you make? What effects are you going to cause today? Cause and Effect is on display at the ArtStarts Gallery (808 Richards Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada) from February 25, 2017 to September 2, 2017. Explore the exhibition online at http://artstarts.com/exhibition/causeandeffect Video Credits: Curatorial Work: Juliana Bedoya Voice: Maddy Mullett and Griffin Eggen Script: Siobhan Rich Recorded at: Oakstone Sound Studios in Victoria (oakstone.ca) Additional Support and Coordination: Karen DeCicco and Dennis Ferbey at Oakstone Sound Studios Photography and Video Editing: Christopher Guy