paintings, writing, and explorations in sound
I love participating in Dawson City's Yukon Riverside Arts Festival! From Aug. 13-15, I'm excited to re-position my soundscape, sculpture, and writing work "Comfort Zone" in an outdoor space. It looks smaller, which matches more closely the size-experience of being a human at the Arctic Circle. Using your phone to access the QR code takes… Continue reading Comfort zone (Yukon Riverside Arts Fest)
On May 28/21, the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (KIAC) was one of many groups hosting experimental sound events around the world for Drone Day - a day for swimming in noise, drone, massive sound. "Every year we make a noise together that stretches around the world." https://droneday.org/ KIAC partnered with Parks Canada and… Continue reading Drone day 2021: Palace Grand
I curated this exhibition for Arts Underground, exhibiting from March 4 - 30, 2018. Tara McCarthy interviewed me for CBC North's afternoon show AirPlay, and you can listen to it here. Show statement below, and artist bios following that. https://soundcloud.com/cbcyukon/menopause-mischief-exhibit-at-arts-underground Menopause Mischief exhibits painting, sculpture and film by 15 artists with connections to Dawson… Continue reading Menopause Mischief
Since 2015, I've been gathering field recordings in all seasons at various indoor and outdoor locations around the Yukon Territory, from the remote Eagle Plains Hotel to Dawson City fireworks to the edges of Crag Lake, and more. The Yukon, though spacious and wild for hundreds of square kilometres, is far from silent! Currently I… Continue reading Four seasons of Yukon sounds
Meg Walker and Jeffrey Langille presented "Noisy Pictures" at the Confluence Gallery in Dawson City from July 6 - 22. Here's the exhibition blurb: Noisy Pictures presents the work of two artists who explore relationships between sound and image. Jeffrey Langille has set a static landscape in motion through the act of walking with a… Continue reading Noisy Pictures
Meg Walker explores the human sensorial interfaces between hearing, movement and sight. Since 2013, she's been gathering field recordings across the Yukon Territory in multiple locations and in all seasons. She then listens actively to these recordings and translates her responses into visual works – evidence of hands and arms in motion. Through this process she… Continue reading about
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My interest in the science of ice is pretty much instantly displaced by a surge of creative alertness the minute I hear ice music. Ice drum, ice marimba, ice trumpet, ice harp: the sounds are indescribable, ranging from haunting to melodious to intensely beautiful but almost unfriendly. If you hear them out of context… Continue reading ice music: not one, but two! annual festivals
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