creek* Gallery of Single Score Pages
creek*: Graphic Score, —installation view, FLOW Exhibition 2024, Dimensions variable; this iteration 6 ½ x 24 ½ feet. Photo – Meg Ross
The original creek* score consists of forty-two 24-inch by 18-inch pages of bespoke embossed St-Armand cotton paper, presented in portrait orientation with the score rendered in custom-made coloured ink.
Jason Logan, of The Toronto Ink Company, was commissioned to make ink from materials foraged from urban waterways. No particular colour palette was requested. A list of word prompts was provided to him. A unique ink was created for each of these: shopping cart, wet, moist, concrete, moss, weeds, duck, logs and vines, bathtub. Two different iterations of “creek” ink were requested.
These foraged inks have fugitive colours; they will change colours or act in otherwise unpredictable ways over time, not unlike creek themselves.
Because of this, the score will be re-photographed if more than a month has gone by since the last performance, since the copies made for a prior performance may no longer be an accurate representation of creek’s story.
This piece was originally conceived of as having a minimum length of 42 pages; one full iteration of Pages 1-42 is required for a performance.
One-page flows onto the next.
Whatever motifs are being explored at the bottom of a given page should therefore continue onto the top of the next page.
Page 42 continues onto the top of Page 01.
As such, creek* may be played for an indeterminate length of time as a durational performance, and the video score may be looped.
Jason Logan, of The Toronto Ink Company, was commissioned to make ink from materials foraged from urban waterways. No particular colour palette was requested. A list of word prompts was provided to him. A unique ink was created for each of these: shopping cart, wet, moist, concrete, moss, weeds, duck, logs and vines, bathtub. Two different iterations of “creek” ink were requested.
These foraged inks have fugitive colours; they will change colours or act in otherwise unpredictable ways over time, not unlike creek themselves.
Because of this, the score will be re-photographed if more than a month has gone by since the last performance, since the copies made for a prior performance may no longer be an accurate representation of creek’s story.
This piece was originally conceived of as having a minimum length of 42 pages; one full iteration of Pages 1-42 is required for a performance.
One-page flows onto the next.
Whatever motifs are being explored at the bottom of a given page should therefore continue onto the top of the next page.
Page 42 continues onto the top of Page 01.
As such, creek* may be played for an indeterminate length of time as a durational performance, and the video score may be looped.
