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.
Chantry
Site Specific Installation 1998
Kelowna, British Columbia
Chantry is
an installation that occupies approximately 1,000 square feet and utilizes
a video projector which projects images, from the site by the river, at
the floor, of Gallagher's Canyon, onto the far back wall of the installation
space.
The video is approximately two hours long and documents the site through
a spring storm: wind, hail, rain and thunder - the video is in real time
with no edits. These video images of the site through different weather
conditions are brought to the viewer along with natural materials which
were collected during the
storm and put into old glass jars.
The eleven jars stand at the far end of the installation space and hold
pine needles, beaver chewed sticks, decomposing wood, pinecones, moss,
earth, pine boughs, leaves, roots, stones and water from the river. Rows
of these natural materials begin at the outer edge of the space inviting
and leading the viewer to walk into, and through, the space to examine
the jars themselves.
©Ingrid Koivukangas 1998
