PARKING, Madrigal performance, collaboration with composer Earle Peach, AHVA Gallery, UBC, Vancouver, 2019.
PARKING, Cathy Busby at performance, collaboration with composer Earle Peach, AHVA Gallery, UBC, Vancouver, 2019.
PARKING, list of vehicle names on Gottingen St, July 8, 2011, 2pm, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax.
PARKING (2019)
On September 25th, 2019, at 11:30 am I walked through the 11-story West Parkade at the University of British Columbia, the closest parking lot to the building where I worked, and noted all the names of the vehicles in that location at the time.
The occasion for this work was the Arts Faculty and Staff exhibition, and I invited composer Earl Peach to score these car names as the lyrics to a madrigal which was sung in five part harmony at the AHVA Gallery.
PARKING, follows my previous installations and printed matter about car culture and its marketing promises. The sound of the madrigal, a secular form of vocal composition from the Renaissance and early Baroque, offered a way to point to the mystical aspirations of these promises.