Over the Wire is a project series that creates an exchange between an established artist and the Yukon School of Visual Arts. Celebrating the extreme remoteness of the school, the project mediates the geographical distance by fostering a correspondence—both literally and aesthetically—between the artist and the students. Each semester, a set of instructions created by a distant Artist is delivered to the students in order to produce a new work. The students in turn interpret the instructions and create the work locally for exhibition. In addition to the exhibition of the work, each project is archived by a publication or multiple that is distributed in return across the country.
Over the Wire artists:
- Tim Hecker: Sonic Palimpsests. (multiple: Audio CD).
- Shary Boyle: Anthropomorphic Mother. (multiple: Book).
- Gary Hill: The Highcoo of Synaesthesia. (multiple: DVD).
- Iain Baxter&: Sense of Place Guide.
- Lawrence Weiner: A Translation from One Language to Another.
- Simparch + Deborah Stratman: Habitual Suspects.
- The Center for Land Use Interpretation: Dawson City: Mining the Intepretive Realm of the Klondike.
Over the Wire is a pedagogical art project created by SOVA faculty member Charles Stankievech.
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“Constantly risking absurdity
and death
whenever he performs
above the heads
of his audience
the poet like an acrobat
climbs on rime
to a high wire of his own making.”
—Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)