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REMOVABLE ROOM
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Removable Room is a mobile artlab series in which projects are activated on location over a defined time frame. For some of the projects we have been able to explore presentation in nontraditional and disused spaces— a shopping centre concourse, a loading dock, a greenhouse— and wherever possible the final performance is broadcast to the net.
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GUILD INN : SCARBOROUGH : SEPTEMBER 25—27, 2007
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| The Scarborough Arts Council invited us to make a Removable Room project on the site of the Guild Inn near the Scarborough bluffs, a cliffside lookout over Lake Ontario about 10 kms from downtown Toronto. Removable Room is a series of mobile artlab projects; more information is here. The Guild Inn began as a country estate in 1914. In the 1930's it was purchased by art patrons who turned it into an artists colony called The Guild of All Arts. During the Second World War soldiers suffering from shell shock received art therapy there. The extensive grounds now serve as an an archive of Toronto's architectural history. A brief history of the Guild Inn is here. As the buildings of the Inn are now condemned we decided to turn the greenhouse into a temporary installation/performance space. Over several visits to the site we took photographs and made sound recordings which we manipulated during the performance. |
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