We Dug Through a Mountain of Gold to Find You
Collaboration with Brad Isaacs. Video, images.
We Dug Through a Mountain of Gold to Find You was developed during a residency at the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture in Dawson, YK in 2016. It features activity in the placer gold mines that are located throughout the territory, where small crews (sometimes families) dig open pits and use water to melt the permafrost layer and extract gold. A bi-product of the process is the unearthing of ice age mammal bones, also frozen in the permafrost.
We Dug Through a Mountain of Gold to Find You was developed during a residency at the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture in Dawson, YK in 2016. It features activity in the placer gold mines that are located throughout the territory, where small crews (sometimes families) dig open pits and use water to melt the permafrost layer and extract gold. A bi-product of the process is the unearthing of ice age mammal bones, also frozen in the permafrost.
Video Stills:
24–09–2024