The project, "Almost Perfect Co-Production Residency" is about locational art. The Banff National Park's Rocky Mountains are the setting, and the project aims to decouple us from our harried technologized existence and face a more elemental side of life. The project aims to explore many forms of locational art using the medium of outdoor space. Led by Jeremy Hight, Fee Plumley, and Laura Silver, this project takes our ability to craft from the desktop to a much larger canvas.
The quintessence of creativity lies in the unconventional. As such, projects like this are key, not only to understanding their contexts (which, in this case, may be context itself), but to understanding the very nature and fabric of what it is to be an artist. It is one thing to reproduce a painting flawlessly, or to construct a photorealistic portrait. But similarly in stature and equally in creativity - and perhaps moreso - is the skill and craft of generating a new concept or pushing an existing idea to its next evolutionary step. This project is praiseworthy because it takes itself out of the conventional media on which we are all so accustomed to being the only way of doing things.
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http://aranar.blogspot.com/2008/11/almost-perfect-banff-new-media.html
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