Part of Gladstone Hotel’s Grow Op 2018: After the Flood (Toronto), our two interventions were located on the hotel’s exterior green roof and its interior staircase.
Grow Op was a four-day festival transforming the hotel with 30+ immersive installations that celebrated innovative ideas and conceptual responses to urbanism, environmental sustainability, landscape design and contemporary art.
On the roof: large fibreglass nectar pods containing LED lights for night illumination.
In the staircase: beeswax and wire sculptures containing a recording of bumble bees singing.
Exhibition’s questions:
What lies beyond once the floodwaters recede? What emerges once the smoke clears? As cataclysmic climate events multiply in tandem with our species’ continuously expanding footprint, we are re-conceiving our relationships with the organic and inorganic world around us in unprecedented ways! Grow Op 2018 employed the tools of art, craft and design to question our conceptions of urban and wild.
Curated by Christine Leu and Alan Webb of LeuWebb Projects with Lukus Toane.
Grow Op 2018 Participants: Allison Home-Douglas + Bohden Tymchuk, Ryan Phyper, J. Damron, Dawn George, Emily Guo, Emily Jan, [R]ed[U]x Lab, Eureka League (Doug Donald, Claire Ironside + Ruth Spitzer), Teresa Mak, Annette Hegel + Deborah Margo, Jill Price, Hana Rotchild, Tammy Salzl, Lauren Schaffer, Adrienne Scott, Adrian Stimson, Nadia Galati + Jennie Suddick + Sara Udow, Claire Kurtin + Sneha Sumanth, Sean Tamblyn, Ryan Van Der Hout
Hegel | Margo artist team 