Ingrid Koivukangas
Environmental
Artist
Responding to sites around the world through works created in site specific installation, intervention, ephemeral sculpture, video, sound, web, permanent site-specific sculpture, photography, printmaking,painting & drawing.
Welcoming opportunities to work in different geographic regions &
locations in the world, creating site-specific works in response to the
land.
Excavation:
Ceres Circle Farm
Alternator Gallery, 1999
Excavation:
Ceres Circle Farm was exhibited at the Alternator Gallery in Kelowna,
British Columbia and was based on a thirty-seven acre farm in southern
Kelowna.
Viewers were encouraged to visit the site and follow a pathway that had
been cleared through five acres of marsh area. The path took them through
stands of trees, across open fields and over creeks, and took viewers
around the parameter of the marsh. If they chose to take one of the smaller
paths, made by deer, they would have found a woven enclosure linking two
deer paths together.
The gallery contained items found while working at the site and included:
bones, fur, bird skeletons, feathers, shells, deer track castings and
natural materials presented in containers, or directly on the gallery
walls. Magnifying glasses were provided at the gallery for viewers as
was a map of the site and directions on how to get there.
Digital photographs, printed on frosted mylar, introduced the viewer to
the gallery space. Small containers mounted underneath the photographs
contained natural materials that could be found were the viewer to visit
the site.
©Ingrid Koivukangas 1999
Woven enclosure found at the
Ceres Circle Farm
