Andrew Zealley and Chrysanne Stathacos
Sound installation with printed paper elements attached to a tree
A wish made at night may be answered by dawn.
A majestic Manitoba maple is transformed for Nuit Blanche into an interactive cross-media artwork. The tree emanates a sound score by Andrew Zealley, while Chrysanne Stathacos has wrapped its trunk with silver string and papers. Visitors are invited to attach printed "wishes," available there, to its branches. This sound/wishing tree becomes a meditative focus as visitors leave their symbolic messages.
Evoking one year in the life of a garden, Zealley's score is fully realized when accompanied by sounds intrinsic to the area: footsteps and murmurings of passers-by, traffic in the distance, the hum of the city and the still of the night.
Andrew Zealley's work encompasses film and television scoring, and cross-media collaborations with musicians and non-musicians and audio installations for gallery environments. He lives and works in Toronto. Chrysanne Stathacos is a multi-media artist and educator working in New York and Toronto. She has produced art works and interactive public art projects on four continents.
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In association with the University of Toronto.
Image: Documentary photograph of a "wishing tree" at Charthapur Mandir, New Delhi, India, 2005.
Photo credit: Chrysanne Stathacos
Map location 7
University of Toronto, Philosopher's Walk (at southwest corner of Royal Ontario Museum)
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