Artist Residency project, 2013

As part of the City of Vancouver Parks Board's Field House Residency program, I was one of the 7 artists-in-residence (The Field House Ensemble) at the Strathcona Field House. Our ensemble worked on individual projects around the theme of slow movements, considering the park’s readily available resources: it's community garden and surrounding walkways as a site for special projects.  

During my term in residence, I worked on several non-monterary exchange projects with people in the neighbourhood called Slow Trades & The Collections Turtle which documented the various slow services I offered by  way of trade.  These non-monetary exchanges of skills or services between the artist and community member was only conducted respectively within a 0.5 mile/0.8 km radius from the field house (the rate of speed per hour by the slowest species of land turtle). These services included drawing, cooking, fortune telling, etc. that were offered in exchange for traded goods and gifts. Guest artists were also invited to participate in slow projects at the Strathcona field house. 

Bow Wow Saturday (in collaboration with Janice Wu) was one of the services that we provided on our Field House stoop. Bow Wow Saturday is a lazy Saturday, outdoor, dog portrait service made available by way of trade or barter. Participants were able to stand in line to receive an original portrait of their canine pal at the stoop of our Field House every fourth Saturday of the month. 

For more information on the Field House Ensemble, click here.