Sarah Wendt + Pascal Dufaux

THE PORTAL : FORAGING FOR WILDNESS IN AN URBAN FOREST

“...It is valuable and disturbing to know that grand oak trees can take three hundred years to grow, three hundred years to live and three hundred years to die. Such knowledge, seriously considered, changes the grain of the mind.” Robert Macfarlane.

-Outdoor video interactive installation: live video mixing + video delay and live musical performance.

Presented at:

. Third-Shift, Saint John, NB, Canada, August, 2018

. Art In The Open, Charlottetown, P.E.I, Canada, August, 2018

With the support of the Canada Council for the Arts

Victoria Park @ Art In The Open, Charlottetown, PEI

The Portal, foraging for wildness in an urban forest is an outdoor interactive video-installation and
sound-poem in which the public is invited to encounter a surreal visual environment reminiscent of
(Alice’s) Through the Looking-Glass, and hear stories evoking possible mythologies, childhood memories
and forgotten histories of Victoria Park in Charlottetown and King’s Square in Saint John. It uses a retroaction video system with delay to
produce a temporal video tunnel and allows the public to participate in creating, with their own
movements, an infinite number of visual and gestural compositions.

Victoria Park @ Art In The Open, Charlottetown, PEI

Victoria Park @ Art In The Open, Charlottetown, PEI

King's Square @ Third Shift, Saint John, NB

King's Square @ Third Shift, Saint John, NB

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