Prototype: Meditations in Space by Rachel Chaisson

PROTOTYPE/MEDITATIONS ON SPACE is a playful opportunity for a congregation of friends and strangers to envision, reflect on, imagine, expand, and hold their ideas of ‘space’ while interacting with typewriter space-making machines. Situated at the Sunset Theatre in Wells, BC, utilizing objects that have accumulated there throughout its history, the artist invites participants to conjure portals of connection, healing, and good humour within themselves.

Bar & concession open | Children welcome
Entry: by donation – funds raised will be donated to the Sunset Theatre.

Rachael Chaisson is a multidisciplinary artist working with intersections between sound, movement and storytelling through objects. She constructs immersive, meditative sculpture in which the viewer is invited to take time. Her practice takes a twofold path: one examining narrative and communicative relationships within “human space” and our devices, the other asking questions about the sensory synapses connecting the body with the natural realm. Recurring themes within her work are other-worldly exploration, microcosms and macrocosms, and domestic-scale science fiction imaginings. She holds a BFA from Alberta College of Art + Design, has shown in solo and group shows in home-base Calgary, participated in the Banff Centre’s Emerging BAiR program and the Canadian Wilderness Artist Residency on the Yukon River. She is currently developing new bodies of work lightning notes, sentinels, and swamp thing as per a Canada Council Research + Creation grant.

She would like to acknowledge and express utmost gratitude for this time spent on the traditional territories of the Lhtako Dene, sharing space with the stellar’s jays and foxes. A huge thank you to Island Mountain Arts and all their staff as well as Dave + Karen Jeffery of Sunset Theatre for making this experiment possible.