Edmonton 24
Video installation (24 screens) with sound. Duration 1:36. 2007
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Roll over the photo to see two frames from March 15, 2007
Time-lapse shots of a grand view of river Saskatchewan taken over a period of 24 days during March-April of 2007, with 24 hour periods compressed into less than 2 minutes. Each 24 hour period starts one hour after the previous one finishes, resulting in a series of 24 staggered time-lapse compressions of 24 hour periods. To show the effect of such staggering, all 24 clips were combined on one screen, but the actual installation calls for 24 large separate screens. A Belgrade soundscape is an integral part of the installation. The sound was recorded on a bus ride through Belgrade streets that Gordana undertook in order to ritually counteract a recurring dream she had her first years in North America of returning to Belgrade and walking familiar streets but unable to find her own apartment. This is the story of our first Winter in Edmonton, and while a grand Canadian landscape is visually foregrounded, our lives inside are backgrounded as the reflection on the window glass of our ghostly presences.
