05/07 - 05/10
On view 10AM - 5PM
Peterson Hall 108

"Mackenzie Place"
A four-channel video installation by artist Jesse Colin Jackson and anthropologist Lindsay Bell

Reception + and Q+A
05/08 @ 5:30 PM
Peterson Hall 108

Synopsis:
"Mackenzie Place" is a multi-channel time-lapse film shot from the roof of the seventeen-story tower that presides over the center of Hay River (Xátł’odehchee) in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Derived from nearly one million still images captured over five years, the film brings to life a panorama of inexorably evolving environments and activities across all four seasons, sometimes beautiful, sometimes banal. Anthropologist Lindsay Bell, a former resident of Hay River (Xátł’odehchee) in Canada’s Northwest Territories, introduced Jesse Colin Jackson to the town’s “High Rise,” a lone concrete tower built in 1975 far from its typical urban home. In 2013, they began a research-creation collaboration focused on this town and its tower. "Mackenzie Place" engages the viewer in what the building sees, how it is seen, and the lives lived within its walls. "Mackenzie Place" explores the legacies of colonialism through an unlikely lens, by holding the viewer’s attention on the structures of development and how people live within them.

Co-Presented by:
FIFEQ, Leadership for the Ecozoic, ERA Architects, UC Irvine's Claire Trevor School of Art, Yan P Lin Center's Research Group on Democracy, Space and Technology, CASCA