MARKING TIME WITH(IN) THE WATER | ST MARYS RIVER WORKSHOP SYNOPSIS/EXCERPT

24th May, 2024 | 12-3pm
at Bellevue Park, meet at the covered pavilion 
No registration 

Marking Time With(in) the Water is an ongoing, participatory workshop promoting collective engagement with varied bodies of water and related shoreline spaces. In this version, participants will be invited to create camera-less photographic prints exposed and developed by the existing light of the sun over a prolonged moment along the banks of what is currently known as the St. Marys River. Prints will be created by placing objects and materials in direct contact with photosensitized gelatin silver paper (standard darkroom paper). This method allows for slow, repeated observation resulting in photo-based visuals mapping the characteristics of vegetation, sediment, rocks, and wood debris comprising important habitat elements for fish and other aquatic species. Ideally, each print will directly interact with the river itself by being fully or partially submerged within its waters during exposure. This direct, durational process emphasizes the deep time embedded within land and water continually re-shaped by disturbances, both observable and invisible. Working together, perhaps we might begin to assemble a collection of prints visualizing our interconnected watersheds and the many living beings supported within and throughout as integral members of both local and global communities in perpetual states of transition.

DESCENT ≈ AN ATLAS OF RELATION

OPENING NIGHT 
May 31st, 2024, 6 pm - 9 pm
At the Sault Ste. Marie Museum
​690 Queen Ste. E. Sault Ste. Marie Ontario

​Assembled as a series of encounters within and around watery terrain, DESCENT ≈ An Atlas of Relation, looks to the fish – who have occupied our planet for millions of years in a constant struggle for survival – as a means of thinking through how human and more-than-human beings find ways to live alongside one another within the midst of a globally shifting climate impacting our shared spaces and, subsequently, our relation(s). As a collective of (often) transitory occupants, how do “we” persist, together, within the relentless ongoing-ness of our worlds?

BIOGRAPHY 

Dawn Roe (b. 1971, Sault Ste. Marie, MI, U.S.A.) works with still photographs and digital video in both singular and combined forms. Her current work in North America seeks to develop methods of respectful engagement with place centering longstanding ethics of care as vital to the past and present health of waterways within, throughout, and beyond the continent. Roe’s work has been widely exhibited and screened throughout the U.S. and internationally at venues including GroundWork Gallery, Norfolk, U.K.; The Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL; ISU University Galleries, Normal, IL; Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR; Screen Space Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; The Perth Centre for Photography, Perth, WA, Australia; and Off the Screen for the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI. Roe received a BFA from Marylhurst University and an MFA from Illinois State University. She divides her time between Asheville, North Carolina and Winter Park, Florida where she serves as Professor of Art at Rollins College. In 2013 she founded the public art space Window (re/production | re/presentation) and served as the curator through 2020, when the project concluded. Her work is represented by Tracey Morgan Gallery in Asheville, NC.