D’Arcy Wilson and Cameron Forbes
In Situ: Contemporary Visual Arts Practice and Pedagogy Reimagines the Field Course
Research-Creation Support Documents
Wilson: Extended Site (Fall 2023)
Left: Students engaged in VART 3929, Extended Site (Fall 2023), a field course in studio arts held at the Bonne Bay Marine Station in Norris Point, engaged in an experimental performance art piece called Shoreline. The assignment description read as follows: Standing at the shoreline in Norris Point, near the Bonne Bay Marine Station, cross the line between land and water in some way. Interpret this as you will— there are no wrong answers. The class will gather at the shore, and each class participant will have the chance to “cross the line” in a group performance that illuminates the myriad ways each participant identifies with and/or understands the shoreline.
Wilson: Research-Creation (recent)
Photographs documenting fieldwork in Wilson’s Art Practice. (Top R: Flock, Gawk, video still, passenger pigeon in the collection of the New Brunswick Museum. 2022) (Top L: Flock, Gawk, Photograph, dimensions variable. Photographed with permission from the Redpath Museum, Montreal, 2024) (Bottom R: The Memorialist: Museology. 2016. Photographed with kind permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. Archival Inkjet Print. In the collection of the NL Art Bank and Global Affairs Canada) (Bottom R: #1Fan, Long Run. Video still. 2020).
Forbes: Caribou Street Community Gardens (Spring 2022)
Images from engagement with Caribou Street Community Gardens. Lot is owned by City of Corner Brook NL, Gardens managed by local non-profit, Western Environment Centre of Newfoundland (WEC). Project and student responses were developed in collaboration with these partners. Top L: Leanna Butters, Transdisciplinary Sustainability PhD Candidate, Proposal for icon forms reimagined as water capture supply. Top R: BFA student Kendall Sweeney, Site Mapping Drawing. Bottom R: Leanna Butters, Transdisciplinary Sustainability PhD Candidate, community art workshop utilizing water gathered from nearby Bell’s Brook. Bottom L: BFA group site response.