• Winter Stations •
Toronto/Canada

Lifeguard stands are basically advantage points of control over certain specific landscape, in this case the beach, they are used seasonally in summer as utilitarian infrastructures and in the winter they lose their character to get relegated as estrange objects in the landscape. The main idea is to amplify the insight into normally invisible or unnoticed phenomena, revealing the wind as the catalyst of an ever-changing installation, whose image depends only on the environmental conditions. It doesn’t pretend to be a shelter but, like Tatzu Nishi’s artwork, create a new context around an existent and temporally unused object, keeping and reinforcing its character as an advantage point but creating a different and changing exhibit of the landscape This installation is made of timber frames, rotary mirrors, bolts, clamps and rented scaffolding, but the most important part of it is what it’s not made of and its interaction with the landscape and the environmental phenomena. With the wind conditions in the great lakes zone, and Canada being the sixth eolic energy producer in the world (11gw at 2016), we consider important to make emphasis in what is there, with an installation that can be a pedagogic instrument on making insight into the renewable energies potential, it can be relocated and operate as an artwork in every season and every landscape after being dismantled from the lifeguard stand.

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• Winter Stations • Toronto/Canada

• Winter Stations •
Toronto/Canada