Audio by May Chew
There is no place like home (2001), Ken Lum.
1543 Rue Jeanne-Mance (Intersection of Rue Balmoral and Mayor St.), Montréal, Canada.
Audio by Rea McNamara
Across Time and Space, Two Children of Toronto Meet (2013), Ken Lum.
Unnamed Laneway and 542 Bay St., Toronto, Canada.
Audio by Tiziana La Melia
What an idiot! What an idiot you are! What an utterly useless idiot you are! and; You so smart, You make me proud your so smart. I so proud you so smart. (Both2006), Ken Lum.
Intersection of Thornton St. and Malkin Ave., Vancouver, Canada.
Audio by Whess Harman
Four Boats Stranded: Red and Yellow, Black and White (2000), Ken Lum.
750 Hornby St. (Four corners of the Vancouver Art Gallery), Vancouver, Canada.
Audio by Patrick Cruz
Vancouver Especially (A Vancouver Special scaled to its property value in 1973, then increased by 8 fold) (2015), Ken Lum.
271 Union St. (Intersection of Union St. and Gore Ave.), Vancouver, Canada.
Video composition by Colin Miner
I am very grateful and appreciative of May, Rea, Tiziana, Whess, and Patrick for their engagement with this project. Each of them made an audio recording around the site of a public artwork by Ken Lum. Responding to current circumstances requiring shifts to virtual content it felt important to also find ways of engaging sites in the real world and contemporary context. The "speaking fee" offered to me was re-distributed towards those that did the audio-visiting-work. This work developed in conversation with the Moire project Ken Lum: and space, Across time and was presented virtually via the Varley Art Gallery’s Delimit public art presentation series on 18 June 2020.