Shoreline Field Station
Co-Principle Investigators: Jane Wolff and Susan Schwartzenberg
259 Lakeshore Blvd.E.,
Toronto Biennial of Art, 2019
Co-curated with Susan Schwartzenberg, this five-week installation and program near Lake Ontario’s shoreline convened people to create observation tools, hold public programs, and invite conversation about the future of the city’s landscapes. The pop-up field station translated the observing tools and practices from Bay Lexicon and the Exploratorium to Toronto’s waterfront. On a public walk, Indigenous and settler participants shared their diverse observations and understandings of the evolving waterfront. Using observation tools, walks, and conversations, exhibition visitors learned to uncover Toronto’s rich and often unnoticed landscape processes and phenomena.
Link to Toronto Biennial website: https://torontobiennial.org
Photo credits: Yuula Benevolski, 2019. Grandmother Kim Wheatley celebrated and honoured the water and the land with ceremony and song.
Photo credits: Yuula Benevolski, 2019. Walkers traced the day’s path on maps from different eras and drew the shoreline as they now imagined it.
Photo credits: Jane Wolff; 2019. The field station.
Curators: Susan Schwartzenberg and Jane Wolff.
Contributors: JamesRoche, Susan Schwartzenberg, Sandy M. Smith, Grandmother Kim Wheatley and JaneWolff.
Installation: Alexander Moyle.
Research Assistants: Maddy Appleby, Amelia Hartin and Alyssa Langana.