Using sound as a catalyst and form of ethnography, storytelling, and expression we invite you to listen to the sounds of the Broughton Archipelago, an off-the-grid community along the west coast of British Columbia, Canada. Hear the stories of Billy Proctor, a renowned pioneer in the community and understand the importance of historical, contemporary, and environmental listening. This film reveals that our sense of belonging to place is intimately connected to the act of listening to it.
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[Bio c. 2012] Jennifer Schine is a Masters student in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University and an active sound artist. Her ethnographic work explores the aural and oral heritage of British Columbia’s coastal communities.
[Bio c. 2012] Greg Crompton writes, makes video and uses sound in his creations. He began creating narrative fiction films while studying writing at the University of Victoria. Video journalism took Greg to Africa, where he worked as a journalism trainer and documentary filmmaker. Greg is now the creative director and producer of a video production company based in Vancouver.
Audible observatories are points of sensory convergence. They are nodes where worlds perceived through the senses intersect and begin the labour of transforming independent events into knowable and meaningful claims. They speak and they are spoken to. Audible Observatories brings together works that draw attention to both the situation and the agency of the observer. The curators for Audible Observatories make a playful connection between research-based art and place-bound exhibition in order to animate a curatorial vision that foregrounds audio-centric art works within a broader rubric of site-specificity. We conceptualize the audible observatory as either a mobile or a stationary...