The Soniferous Æther of The Land Beyond The Land Beyond
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Charles Stankievech creates fieldworks, books, films, soundworks, and sculptures. He blends science with science fiction, extensive research with performative spectacle, and architecture with armament. His work shifts perceptual boundaries while critically examining the history, specificity, and geopolitics of location.

He has submerged microphones at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike rivers to broadcast sounds of river flow and shifting ice. He mimicked a rock band world tour by traveling around the globe, firing off model rockets at locations associated with ballistic missile development. His recent work, The Soniferous Æther of The Land Beyond The Land Beyond, is a film installation produced while he was artist-in-residence with the Canadian Armed Forces. Shot at the CFS ALERT Signals Intelligence Station—the northern most settlement on earth—during the continuous darkness of winter, the film showcases a star-filled sky and references the confounding scale of an abandoned space station.

Charles Stankievech (born 1978, in Okotoks, Canada) has exhibited in venues such as Palais de Tokyo (Paris), International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA2010, Germany), dOCUMENTA 13 (Kassel), Xth Biennale of Architecture (Venice), NGBK + HKW (Berlin), ISSUE Project Room (New York), Musee d’art Contemporain Montreal, Canadian Centre for Architecture and MASSMoCA. In 2011 he was the West Coast/Yukon finalist for the Sobey Art Award.
In 2012 he was artist-in-residence at Flaggfabrikken (Norway), MARFA Fieldwork International Research Program (Marfa, Texas). He has also held residencies with the Canadian Forces Artist Program, MuseumsQuartier (Vienna, Austria), Nodar Artist Residency Center (Portugal), Waterpod (NYC), Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida), Banff Centre for the Arts, and artLAB San Servolo Artist Residency (Venice).
His writings appear in academic journals such as Leonardo Music Journal (MIT Press) and 306090 (Princeton Architectural Press), as well as experimental texts in art publications. Since 2011, he has served as co-director of the art and theory press K.
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source: nac-cnaca

Renowned Sobey Art Award nominated Yukon artist Charles Stankievech presents the premiere of his new work, a film and sound installation recorded during his residency at the Canadian Forces Station Alert (Ellesmere Island, Nunavut), the northernmost settlement on Earth. The installation is part of a series of fieldworks looking at remote outpost architecture, military infrastructure and the embedded landscape.

Stankievech documented the station and surrounding landscape using computer controlled time‐lapse filming to combat the eternal darkness of the polar winter. The eerie images hover somewhere between an abandoned Cold War station and an outer space outpost.

Presented by SAW Video Media Art Centre, Ottawa Art Gallery, the City of Ottawa, and the NAC’s Northern Scene.
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source: nac-cnaca

Artiste renommé, finaliste pour le prix Sobey, le Yukonais Charles Stankievech présente en primeur sa nouvelle création, une installation cinématographique et sonore enregistrée pendant sa résidence à la Station des Forces canadiennes Alert (île d’Ellesmere, Nunavut), l’établissement le plus septentrional de la planète. L’installation fait partie d’une série d’œuvres de terrain qui s’intéresse à l’architecture des postes éloignés, aux infrastructures militaires et aux paysages intégrés.

L’artiste a pris des clichés de la station et des alentours à l’aide d’un appareil informatisé pour prises de vue à intervalles afin de compenser l’obscurité permanente de l’hiver polaire. Les images donnent froid dans le dos, évoquant a la fois une station de la guerre froide laissée a l’abandon et un avant-poste spatial.

Présenté par Centre d’art médiatique SAW Video, la Galerie d’art d’Ottawa, la Ville d’Ottawa et la Scène du Nord du CNA.