Workshop on Monumental Temporality and Digital Permanence
On the way to permanence, we seem to destroy things. The instance of the inevitable trajectory for a piece of architecture that cannot survive the cultural or political shifts is as old as the history of human-made structures. In the observation of this natural cycle, I came to the conclusion that in the concurrent monumental, or rather, stability searching dialogue, the digital may keep the last word.
The piece mutated from the loss deeply associated with the experience of instability and permeable change. The search for permanence that outpours as a search for comfort, assurance and understanding. As constant uncomfortable change can be a comfortable permanence, the objects of transient, elemental, as well as immaterial nature can become the symbol for immutability.
The installation acts as a dialogue of material fragility and persistent digitization of objects and spaces. The University of Saskatchewan Emma Lake Kenderdine Campus is located on the traditional territory of Montreal Lake Cree Nation.
Workshop on Monumental Temporality and Digital Permanence, multi-media installation; single channel digital video, 6.3 min, sinthetic foam, styrofoam, rocks, cement, wood, fabric, 2020
