{"id":12554,"date":"2016-10-05T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=12554"},"modified":"2016-10-03T13:31:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T20:31:24","slug":"camosun-resident-artist-captures-time-and-culture-in-her-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2016\/10\/05\/camosun-resident-artist-captures-time-and-culture-in-her-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun resident artist captures time and culture in her work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Megan Quigley graduated from Camosun\u2019s Visual Arts program last year and is now bringing her skills back to campus through Camosun\u2019s Van den Brink residency.<\/p>\n

The residency allows a graduate from the last three years of the Camosun Visual Arts department to work on a project for two months with access to the college\u2019s art studios.<\/p>\n

Quigley says that the project\u2014which is called Mother Tongue<\/i> and will be on display in the foyer of room 117 in the Young Building on Lansdowne campus until October 14\u2014is \u201can investigation of the process of learning language.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c[It\u2019s] a process of negotiating cultural identity, diaspora, and a relationship to place,\u201d says Quigley.<\/p>\n

Quigley\u2019s artistic medium of choice includes embroidery onto tarp; she says that she\u2019s really interested in how materials relate to a process.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m less interested in creating objects that maybe present themselves as art objects,\u201d she says, \u201cand rather more interested in understanding how material has a certain reference or a certain memory to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Due to the tactile nature of what she does, Quigley says she has always had a soft spot for construction materials and how they can intertwine with and act as an aid to \u201cthe process of transition.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that the way in which\u2014specifically in Victoria\u2014one might relate to construction materials is if you\u2019re walking down the street, for example, and you encounter a building that is being demolished or being built, and you see tarps or you see displaced ground,\u201d she says. \u201cIt makes you conscientious of the fact that the place that you\u2019re in is in flux, and is also constructed and built.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Camosun artist in residence Megan Quigley\u2019s Mother Tongue project is up now at Camosun\u2019s Lansdowne campus (photo by Adam Marsh\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As far as how that lends itself to her process as an artist, Quigley says that the city she lives in, the ground she walks on, and the buildings she sees can \u201ccall attention to the different processes that transform our relationship to place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quigley has combined some of the materials in her project that she sees in construction zones, such as tarp and Tyvek, with photography of the city. But even with something as basic as landscape photography, Quigley puts her own creative spin on things.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of going and taking pictures of the landscape, I\u2019ve done a series of durational videos,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m presenting it as a still, but one that is also kind of breathing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quigley says that it is a \u201cslippery line\u201d between a durational photograph and a durational video.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just a straight shot, so there\u2019s no camera movement, and there\u2019s not a lot of movement in the subject,\u201d says Quigley. \u201cIn this way, it might have more of the characteristics of a photograph, but it\u2019s still a video.\u201d<\/p>\n

The video in this case\u2014of a cliff along Dallas Road\u2014is still for the most part, but it has, as Quigley puts it, \u201cglimmers of movement,\u201d such as water and wind rustling trees. Quigley says that she is really interested in addressing the boundaries between video and still shots.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really interested in notions of hybridity as they relate to material, but also how that can then broach into conversations of locations and identity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Megan Quigley graduated from Camosun\u2019s Visual Arts program last year and is now bringing her skills back to campus through Camosun\u2019s Van den Brink residency. The residency allows a graduate from the last three years of the Camosun Visual Arts department to work on a project for two months with access to the college\u2019s art […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-october-5-2016"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12557,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12554\/revisions\/12557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}