truck gallery

January 20 - March 3
Opening reception: Saturday, Jan. 20, 7pm

TRUCK Main Space

William Robison
Duet

Created in collaboration with Erin Schwab and Shane Brown, Duet combines and distorts the Canadian and USA national anthems through compositional re-arrangement and redaction. The resulting work consists of a new multipart musical piece for two voices based on conflating the scores of Oh Canada & The Star-Spangled Banner into various levels of abstraction. Spurred by Robinson’s recent relocation to the United States from Canada, Duet strives to negotiate national anthems as musical monuments and their malleability as sonic and ideological structures deserving of deconstruction.

TRUCK Parkade

Peter Von Tiesenhausen
Reservoir

In the spring of 2017, the Saddleridge reservoir in northeast Calgary was drained and dried for scheduled maintenance. The immense subterranean chamber, which is one of many reservoirs that supplies Calgary with filtered water originating from the Bow Glacier, had been sealed for forty years. For four decades its full volume— thirty-eight million litres of water—lay still, in complete darkness below two soccer fields. It is part of a largely invisible, complex infrastructure that variously and usually unfailingly shuttles clean water to, and ushers dirty water from, Calgary’s 1.24 million inhabitants.

The Saddleridge reservoir, emptied, is a colossal and alien space. A slight sound within the massive chamber can reverberate for up to 25 seconds, and certain frequencies compound upon themselves, intensifying in resonance. In late May of 2017, Peter von Tiesenhausen commissioned sound artists Jen Reimer and Magnus Tiesenhausen to record an improvised collaborative work within the reservoir, and cinematographer Dave McGregor to capture the visual space. The resulting fleeting images and sounds comprise Reservoir.

Upon completion of the maintenance, the Saddleridge reservoir was resealed and filled, returning to silence for the next anticipated forty years.

Reservoir was commissioned by The City of Calgary as part of the Watershed+ Dynamic Environment Lab.


Gallery hours: Tuesday - Friday, 11am - 5pm
Saturday, 12 - 5pm

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