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The Midnight Sun Camera Obscura Festival brings together an international group of artists and researchers interested in cameras obscura, related optical phenomenon and the meeting places of art and science, cultural and wilderness settings, and learning and play to Dawson City, Yukon.
During the week of the festival, multiple public installations around town will be complemented by an exhibition in both the ODD Gallery and the SOVA Confluence Gallery, and well as a range of workshops, tours, and public talks, all focused around the theme of the camera obscura.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS / RESEARCHERS
Dianne Bos (Canada/France), Lea Bucknell (Canada), Sven Dupré (Germany), Petran Kockelkoren (Holland), Ernie Kroeger (Canada), Donald Lawrence (Canada), Kevin Schmidt (Canada/Germany), Doug Smarch (Canada), Holly Ward (Canada/Germany), Carsten Wirth (Germany), Andrew Wright (Canada), Michael Yuhasz (Canada).
The Festival will also involve visual arts students and alumni from Thompson Rivers University, the Yukon School of Visual Arts, and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University.
Artists partaking in the festival have already started to arrive in Dawson and are currently constructing projects at the Macaulay House residence in preparation for the event. Please feel free to drop in and meet the artists who are constructing their works in the Macaulay yard outside.
For the upcoming festival program, details and more please visit the KIAC website or our Facebook page.
Participating Camera Obscura Festival artist Carsten Wirth from Berlin, Germany constructing his camera obscura at KIAC's Macaulay House residence.
Installation of the workshop drawings and camera obscura at
the Yukon Arts Centre Community Gallery.
Installation of workshop drawings by research assistants Ryland Fortie and Dion Fortie at the Yukon Arts Centre Community Gallery.
Camera Obscura workshop drawings on the Whitehorse wharf.
Installation of workshop drawings by research assistants Ryland Fortie and Dion Fortie at the Yukon Arts Centre Community Gallery.
Camera Obscura workshop drawings on the Whitehorse wharf.
Camera Obscura workshop drawings on the Whitehorse wharf.
Thompson Rivers University BFA student Dion Fortie working on a stereoscopic photography project in the Maccaulay Residency studios, for the student/alumni exhibition in the Confluence Gallery of YSOVA.
Arriving in Dawson City, late May 2015.
TRU Research Assistants Dion Fortie and Ryland Fortie test fitting camera obscura components on the George Black ferry at Dawson City.
The Camera Obscura Project brings together an international group of artists and other researchers interested in cameras obscura, related optical phenomenon and the meeting places of: art and science, cultural and wilderness settings, learning and play. With funding from The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada the Project is based at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, B.C.
