reading between the lines & Emerald Ash: Deborah Carruthers and Terri Hron
Black Box, matralab, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Installation of new graphic scores with accompanying audio video presentation and public talk by the composers
Who are the Witnesses to environmental change?
What form do their memories take?
Where are memories kept?
When are memories revealed?
How are memories expressed?
reading between the lines considers the specific testimony of one Witness Tree, researching its visual and environmental history, as well as its present stump-state, and reacting to it with drawings, calkings and tracings of this stump. The resulting graphic score combines the scientific and the artistic, and endeavours to present a visual and sonic portrait of the Witness.
What form do their memories take?
Where are memories kept?
When are memories revealed?
How are memories expressed?
reading between the lines considers the specific testimony of one Witness Tree, researching its visual and environmental history, as well as its present stump-state, and reacting to it with drawings, calkings and tracings of this stump. The resulting graphic score combines the scientific and the artistic, and endeavours to present a visual and sonic portrait of the Witness.
reading between the lines: 2nd Movement – a Portrait of Witness in 2019, acrylic ink on St-Armand paper, 48" dia.
Much thanks to the musicians Norman Adams, Terri Hron and Jessica Tsang for their creativity and engagement with this work; Terri Hron for her invaluable work; the Sensing Places, Changing Times working group for its feedback; Sandeep Bhagwati, Jen Reimer and Charles Harding for their organizational support; and matralab for financial support.
