RENDER presents At The Water's Edge, UW School of Architecture

[Barbara Hobot]

*RENDER presents At The Water's Edge: Grand River Sketches a new
commissioned work by ALICE ANGUS of proboscis
              *
*University of Waterloo School of Architecture, Cambridge
December 1, 2008 through February 14, 2009*

As part of* RENDER*'s ongoing creative research partnership with London UK
based *proboscis*, Alice Angus (proboscis co-director) was commissioned to
develop a new work specifically for the atrium of the UW School of
Architecture in Cambridge. Combining new media and traditional methods,
Angus' project reflects the *proboscis* strategy of engaging the social,
cultural and natural histories of specific sites and territories.
Furthermore, Angus brings her own particular interest in rivers as
life-lines, connectors and definers of place or (to paraphrase a few choice
thoughts from Peter Ackroyd's definitive book on the Thames) the river as
fact, as metaphor, as sacred line.

For this project, Angus has explored the Grand River from its mouth at Port
Maitland on Lake Erie to Elora. By bicycle, car, foot and kayak, she has
wandered through and around the numerous cities, towns, villages,
communities, farm fields and industrial sites the river penetrates, defines
and skirts, making focussed stops along the way at Chiefswood National
Historic Site, Paris, Galt and Kitchener. Her inquiries have also taken her
to libraries, museums and archives and into conversations with numerous
individuals whose lives have been touched by the river. The resulting work
is a potent, deeply personal and poetic reflection on a significant body of
water whose role as a critical thread through the region is often forgotten
or obscured by more recent grids of development, pathways of transportation
and community boundaries.  As with her other explorations of water (such as
the Rivers Nene and Ouse in East Anglia and her project Topographies and
Tales set in Scotland and the Canadian north) *At The Water's Edge: Grand
River Sketches* maps a dialogue between the artist and place, emphasizing a
process of inquiry that promises to continue.

At the heart of *RENDER*'s ongoing collaboration with *proboscis* is
creative research grounded in local history and the built environment. Past
collaborative projects have included *AnArchaeology and The Accidental
Menagerie. At the Water's Edge* will be further developed into a publication
and proboscis will play a central role in *RENDER*'s upcoming GROUNDWORK
community garden project at rare.

Contact:
Andrew Hunter, *RENDER* Director/Curator
renderprojects at gmail.com
or
Barbara Hobot, *RENDER* Curator-in-residence
renderevents at gmail.com
www.render.uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x33575
and
www.proboscis.uk.org
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