Untunnelling Vision
2020, photographs and video installation
Untunnelling Vision was filmed on location on Tsuut’ina Nation land previously leased by the Canadian Armed forces base in Calgary. This land was returned to the Tsuut’ina after 100 years, partially contaminated with live munitions from ‘war-play’. Ten years later, part of this land was cleared of mines and a movie set was erected– a place reduced to rubble by war– for shooting the Canadian war film “Passchendaele.” Following the filming, the set was left in place with the intention of turning it into a tourist destination. Using 360 degree video intercut with conventional video footage, Untunnelling Vision is set in an undetermined space and time, in which the historical and entangled relations between militarism, tourism and colonialism have played out.
Video excerpts from Untunnelling Vision, 2020, 4k and 360˚ single-channel video, 21:26
Installation view of Untunnelling Vision, 2020, TRUCK Contemporary Art Gallery, Calgary (2020). Photo: Brittany Nickerson
Capture: Picture in Progress (Untunnelling Vision), 2020, inkjet print, 109.2 x 145.6 cm (43 x 57.3 in)
Untaken (sky exposure/land imprint), 2020, silver gelatin prints, construction site, night sky, Dodge Ram 1500, 243.8 x 121.9 cm (96 x 48 in) each
Rubble in Rubbleland (Untunnelling Vision), 2020, inkjet print, 50.8 x 67.4 cm (20 x 26.5 in)
Rubble (Untunnelling Vision), 2020, inkjet print, 66.7 x 55.3 cm (26.3 x 21.8 in)
Upon the Wreckage (Untunnelling Vision), 2020, inkjet print, 86.4 x 130.2 cm (34 x 51.3 in)
Rubbleland (Untunnelling Vision), 2020, inkjet print, 86.4 x 130.2 cm (34 x 51.3 in)
Mound (Untunnelling Vision), 2020, inkjet print, 47.1 x 58.4 cm (18.5 x 23 in)