Time Lapse is the latest iteration of David Vaisbord’s documentary project: The Little Mountain Project. This short video, Time Lapse, focuses on the landscape of The Little Mountain Housing Project as a construction site, a playground, and home of a generation of youth, a battleground for a neighbourhood under siege and ultimately, a graveyard for the housing dreams of Vancouver. Vaisbord… Read more →
Proponents of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics promised that the billions spent would leave a “legacy” of public infrastructure, such as affordable housing at the athlete’s village. In February 2011, a year after games, I photographed the Olympic Village in Southeast False Creek. Read more →
In Mementos (2019), every object in a person’s bedroom is compiled into a ‘short-term sculpture’ to create a condensed image of their belongings, void of the spatial context that the objects live in. The arrangement of the things provides an intimate window into someone’s possessions through an abstracted version of their personal space. The participants of Mementos range in age… Read more →
Cracks and Vines is a video memorial to houses erased from the Mount Pleasant landscape. Drawing from Milton’s fifteen year history as a Mount Pleasant resident, the work focusses on the recreation of wallpaper that once patterned the walls of rental suites she was forced to leave due to demolition. Exploring a tension between stillness and motion, permanence and impermanence,… Read more →
