Blue Smoke
3-channel video and audio, online and installation, Artspace Gallery, Peterborough.
6.10 minute loop, 2020.
Screenshot of Blue Smoke ‘installed’ on COMPANYTOWN.CA.
The Company Town website went live July 13th, 2020. An offline component was installed at Artspace Gallery in Peterborough Ontario July 13th- July 19th, 2020. The making of Company Town was supported by Public Energy Performing Arts & Artspace Peterborough.
Photography by Esther Vincent.
Blue Smoke is a new moving image work commissioned for Company Town. Blue Smoke is a moving image work that weaves documentary with dream logic. By combining virtual space with video, an uncanny panorama unfolds. This hybrid space is both lyrical and horrific, and echoes the complex legacy of Peterborough’s General Electric Factory.
Company Town is an online installation that maps the complicated remnants of the (now closed) General Electric factory in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong. The project was initiated in conjunction with collaborator Anne White’s 2019/2020 residency at Public Energy Performing Arts. The concept was developed collectively amongst the five contributing artists: Anne White, Ann Jaeger, Miranda Jones, and Lillian Ross-Millard.
