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| Tin Can Studio - June 2010 to present |
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| Tin Can Studio founders, Caroline Ballhorn and Brodie Kitchen, and I met while in Portland, OR, during the Open Engagement Social Practice Conference, put on through PSU. Even though we are both from Vancouver, we had not run into one another until the last day of the conference (which was odd, because not that many people were there from Canada). They had room for 1 more person in their ride, and we rode back to Vancouver the next day. It was an 8 hour drive home that felt like 10 minutes of pure pleasure.
"Tin Can Studio is a mobile project space housed in a converted 18 foot Streamline trailer. Our goal is for the project to become a platform for collaboration and public engagement; a place where people can come together to build, make, show and share ideas with the intention of building community through the act of collaborative production, as well as through the creation of a physical space for gathering and dialogue." - Brodie Kitchen & Caroline Ballhorn, 2010
Hammock Residency is proud to have the Tin Can Studio parked at the Hammock Residency, from June 7th, 2010; departure date unknown.
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http://tincanstudio.org/
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=418732035295
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| Network of Domestic Spaces - May 2010 |
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| While in Portland, I met the mysterious founder of NoDs: an amazing networker of domestic spaces! Below, is a description in her own words:
"NoDS is an investigation of two simple things: People and Spaces. It is also about the complex relationships between, within an amongst these people and spaces.
NoDS was formed to promote, facilitate and expose creative initiatives on the domestic front; to bring everyone closer together in the process, regardless of physical proximity or material discipline, and to examine the dry wall, brick or concrete barriers between private and public space, maybe even knocking some of them down during the process.
NoDS is dedicated to the unconventional and uninstitutional as space for artistic creation and display. Moving initutionalized artist residency into people's homes helps all of us reconsider the walls we've built up between the private and the public, the domestic and institutional, mine and yours, home and away."
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http://nodsproject.com
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| Graveley Street - May 2006 to Present |
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| Commercial Drive Area, Vancouver, BC, Canada // Garden in the back, Hammock on the porch, access to the indoors, stereo, studio
and kitchen when I am home. // In 2010, the garden became a community garden, and encouraged people to join us in the process.
Close to 2 big parks, one with a Bocce Ball court, one with drug dealers in the back
and Bike Polo on Thursdays. Both with extensive childrens playground, for swinging
on in the night time. 2 blocks from Famous Falafel, Home Hardware, Norman's Fruit and Vegetable
Market, and a Gelato place with non-dairy options. If you foot it an extra block (for
a total of 3 blocks) you can make it to a 24 hour convenience store known as The
Fig Mart.
Roommates (in reverse order): In September, Kristoff Steinruck will upgrade to the "large room" or, the "room with the door" (I have the "larger room ... with a curtain.") <-- Joey Dubuc lives in the small room from February to May 2010, then lives in the big room from April to August 2010. <-- Kristoff Steinruck lives in Kelowna, BC & rents out the small room for weekend visits to Vancouver, February to August 2010. <-- Dawn Johnston moves here after travelling, January 2010 (small room), February to May 2010, in the large room. <-- Phoebe Jin has the small room, October 2008 to December 2009. Then has the big room for January 2010. <-- Debra Zhou claims the big room, October 2008, moves December 2009. <-- Michael Drebert, May 2007 to August 2008, then off to Victoria for his MFA! <-- Robert Niven invited Michael and I into the Graveley Street Ranch, May 2007. He returned to Edinburgh in September 2007.
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