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Alice Angus
In the summer of 2003 I was one of five artists resident in Ivvavik Park, North West Canada.
An Artist in the Parks project, I was working in partnership with the project's initiator Joyce Majiski (a wilderness guide, biologist and artist). I went equipped with computer, solar panel and video camera to interview, video, animate and edit on the move, exploring the impact language and technology has on our sense of presence in the world, our lived experiences of geography and to understand the connections between urban space and wilderness. Bordered on the north by the Beaufort Sea and Alaska on the West, Ivvavik Park is part of the Beringia Refugium; an area untouched by the last ice age. Time's geological pace is etched across its mountains. Unglaciated, their forms are rounded like shoulders; a rhino skin mapped with the scars of time. Sometimes the land falls away to reveal rocky tors and ridges, here and there a single pointed peak, a perfect cone of loose pebbles precariously balanced. It is as if the gods pondered there a while at the beginning of all things and let earth run through their great fingers onto the timeless wilderness. I'm told there is still gold in the hills. Many came for it a hundred years ago, trekked the long route up from the Klondyke and fought...
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