https://lucasglenn.net Lucas Glenn Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:34:28 +0000 https://lucasglenn.net en http://lucasglenn.net/The-Wild-Ride-2024-25 Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:34:28 +0000 Lucas Glenn 455644  Work The Wild Ride The Wild RideGlass Gallery, Kelowna Art GalleryKelowna, BCOctober 2024 – March 2025 The Ride may not be the solution, but a good Ride is worth a good try.In The Wild Ride, a patinated gas tank houses a young peace lily plant. A motocross stand supports the planter while a work light, clamped to the stand, spotlights the plant. Salvaged from a decommissioned dirt bike, the work aims to transform a tool of ecological conquest into a tool for ecological support.Accompanying the work is an ambient, musical composition with spoken prose. The rugged, deepfaked voice of an actor, known for advertising Coors Light and Dodge Rams, punctuates the score. The prose combines corporate clichés, bumper sticker truisms, and the artist’s own statements repurposed to suggest earnest ways of being a better rider on a damaged planet. Drawing from the artist’s small-town BC upbringing, the installation contrasts rural innovation with biases against nature. With a D.I.Y. approach both that is genuine and fraught, The Wild Ride attempts to foster care for nonhuman life. – Project statement <img width="1862" height="1241" width_o="1862" height_o="1241" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/3dda6cdbb289e2ab269dc05cbe922131aaa1925086d0630648fe1711ddf18fb5/image00013-edit.jpeg" data-mid="1393569" border="0" /> The Wild Ride Dirt bike gas tank, peace lily, motocross lift stand, clamping LED work light, potting soil, sound 14x32x42 inchesSound: Your browser does not support the audio element.  Work The Wild Ride The Wild RideGlass Gallery, Kelowna Art GalleryKelowna, BCOctober 2024 – March 2025 The Ride may not be the solution, but a good... http://lucasglenn.net/Writing Fri, 13 Dec 2024 18:31:46 +0000 Lucas Glenn 455157 Lucas Glenn Work &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Writing &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Info Writing Selected Interviews and EssaysNovember 15, 2024 Art on the Front Lines Interview with Sheldon Pierre Louis, Archives Essays, Alternator July 4, 2024 After the fireInterview with Andreas Rutkauskas, Archives Essays, Alternator March 16, 2023 Proximities and Parasitics Slip, Slither Scroll : Sage Sidley, Vernon Public Art Gallery June 2, 2015 Okanagan Artist-Run Centres Curated Bibliographies, ARCPost, PAARC Lucas Glenn Work &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Writing &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Info Writing Selected Interviews and EssaysNovember 15, 2024 Art on the Front Lines... http://lucasglenn.net/Selected-Work-2024 Tue, 10 Dec 2024 19:10:53 +0000 Lucas Glenn 455132  Work Selected Work Mountain Dew Group exhibitionProject GalleryBanff Centre for Art &amp; CreativityJanuary, 2024 These drawings and sculptures were produced at Banff Centre for Art &amp; Creativity during the Early Career Artist Residency, 2024. <img width="1200" height="784" width_o="1200" height_o="784" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/177863e4d4d7df73598fb3e3dd5ff8bc2a2402f732335f4a4beecda07de4a678/2024--TEK--sm-2.jpg" data-mid="1387582" border="0" />TEKClay, UTV phone mount, drywall screws5.5x3x2 inches2024 <img width="1200" height="816" width_o="1200" height_o="816" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/75dfafc37bf9f1d2a615269ece5dfe50ab5b3870ff0b7c1c556128a2f5ed3339/2024--TEK--sm-1.jpg" data-mid="1387581" border="0" /> --- Open Studio Banff Centre for Art &amp; CreativityJanuary, 2024 These works were exhibited at an open studio, concluding my residency. <img width="1175" height="1763" width_o="1175" height_o="1763" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/464218d34f2c1afadae9e4121f36086036dbaabdd5caa67748d21076934e4798/00wildridestudies.jpg" data-mid="1387584" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="900" width_o="1200" height_o="900" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/f42348c14661eebd87e9121fd6a0dd5f12725b8ad629b6193aa1ac5650e85edb/05elkonheatedrock.jpeg" data-mid="1387587" border="0" /> Elk on heated stoneRaku-fired ceramic, heated terrarium rock11x4x6 inches (excl. power cord)2024 <img width="1120" height="1679" width_o="1120" height_o="1679" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/d8fc6dfbc412303d5d8fb528b723c6199ec76f49b7e2e6cc071fbdedb503f75e/00canadapostilllakemaylongweekend2006.jpg" data-mid="1387583" border="0" />cabin may long &nbsp;weekend 018.jpg | 2006Mixed media paper, grease pencil9x11 inches2024 <img width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/642ae8bf69c0c01e1f0e0094b5a59705037e04565069148447a9194a8a640d97/06beaverlakelookout2005.jpg" data-mid="1387585" border="0" />Dales visit march 13 016.jpg | 2013Mixed media paper and grease pencil12x9 inches2024 <img width="1200" height="1800" width_o="1200" height_o="1800" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/024677e087471ab4a2c431d1bfef85b7e5cc72d7b217738485f6397b3dc3c22c/vanilla-extract.jpg" data-mid="1387586" border="0" /> Oil of Oregano (herbal extract)Laser-cut acrylic, modified snowmobile hood fairing, plastic oregano herbs, aluminum wall shelfDimensions vary2024 <img width="1200" height="808" width_o="1200" height_o="808" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/3226efefae4658ba26781f67f899a0ef076ba15afa781d4aa9dce06382fcd3f5/antler-1.jpeg" data-mid="1387588" border="0" />Severed Branch/NetworkRaku-fired ceramic and antler sheds2x4 feet2024 <img width="1200" height="900" width_o="1200" height_o="900" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/cbfc875d997532f26ad669078f1fd6a612b1422a1979032b1df2e879184db28a/antler-2.jpeg" data-mid="1387589" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="900" width_o="1200" height_o="900" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/2111b2da6f94f529be312b8d32d1270870c50a6360ba0b99a4fbaf6f7010d5e2/antler-3.jpeg" data-mid="1387590" border="0" />  Work Selected Work Mountain Dew Group exhibitionProject GalleryBanff Centre for Art &amp; CreativityJanuary, 2024 These drawings and sculptures were... http://lucasglenn.net/M-A-S-S-I-V-E-2024 Thu, 14 Nov 2024 16:50:23 +0000 Lucas Glenn 454866  Work M.A.S.S.I.V.E. (Make-shift Anthropocene Symbiosis Station...) M.A.S.S.I.V.E. (Make-shift Anthropocene Symbiosis Station and Interface for Vibrant Exchange)City of KelownaArtist in residenceKelowna, BCJanuary – November, 2024 Press Kelowna Now (1, 2)  Kelowna10 (video) M.A.S.S.I.V.E. is a temporary, mobile sound installation. Found in Kelowna parks throughout fall 2024, it focused on ways that humans and nonhumans 'interface.'The installation’s functions were small in spite of its lofty title. Installed in parks, it let visitors generate modified sounds for plants. Some installs had visitors DJ for plants via a boombox, selecting CDs and cassette tapes to play. And later installs had visitors speaking to plants over two-way radios. Daisy-chained guitar pedals isolated the audio output to 355–500hz. This distorted the sound to a range known to encourage plant growth. A speaker, mounted to a monitor arm on a tripod, broadcasted the noise. Flanked by traffic cones, its articulated aluminum body and tidy cables gave off the look of some scientific technology. It was directed at a mature maple tree, then a young cottonwood, then a small patch of yarrow, and finally an Oregon grape bush.The artist was on site to converse with visitors from an outfitted utility trailer, canopied by a room divider. It also served as an off-grid solar power station and reading library. Solar panels recharged the sound sculpture's batteries, and from a trailer side-compartment labelled "Seed library," texts extended the the project's intent. Curated from the artist's shelf, books covered nature/culture, art, and climate. Scattered in the pages of each text were plants seeds, each native to the Okanagan. With and without knowing, readers sowed yarrow, sedges, and wildflower seeds.The trailer's larger footprint— compared to the sound component— pointed to the project's hubris, even contrasting its eco-optimism. Like its ambitious title, the trailer’s relative size questioned if the supports outweighed the gestures. Energy, material, space, labour, knowledge, and the artists himself all connected to form a flawed, but well-meaning, support system.— Project statement <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/4dca10bd3eafdd198dfabf68bea69932335fc86890335bd768fb151315545e85/promo-image-landscape.jpg" data-mid="1384571" border="0" /> S.O.N.I.C. at 350–500hz (Sound Output for the Nonhumans it Can) 2024 Speaker, Motorola 2-way radio, guitar pedals and buckstep, Makita 18v 4ah battery, articulated monitor arm, satellite tripod, aluminum and tin casing, plastic basin, notebook, ink, traffic cone 55 x 16 x 16 inches <img width="1200" height="801" width_o="1200" height_o="801" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/4ded412a23149560d2230c822d00aec7d7e5e62e2f3e679a6a9e5030f1d3e223/2211--speaker-1-radio.jpg" data-mid="1384592" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="805" width_o="1200" height_o="805" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/17d6c4f6130c03cd03258ab2782b1ee985aeba62f337ee77fcfaa316fa8cb878/2211--speaker-1-equalizer-drawing.jpg" data-mid="1384591" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/c72ec8d5c893d3d5e61e770ebff2ebb5adee4a4e5d5bb0f829f424755ee6a8c1/2211--library-2-bench-1.jpg" data-mid="1384590" border="0" /> Seed Library (detail)2024 Books, Motorola 2-way radio, native plant seeds, folding camp chairs, plastic basins, notebook, ink, traffic conesDimensions variable <img width="1200" height="794" width_o="1200" height_o="794" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/421a5560f0f9f6fa92754b19f1e7ffccaf1bd6ba7619cb737d23a524ad988c87/2211--library-2-bench-2-radio-drawing.jpg" data-mid="1384593" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/bce34daa145fc95a2f7f7860671368b64d13442060ae3bb46e7a8026d44b90fe/2211--library-1-chair-set-1.jpg" data-mid="1384588" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/c8d57d5c1cec0d4cad80b2b5f85be2209b22669613c6cc4d113783f6a67ec39f/2211--library-1-chair-set-2.jpg" data-mid="1384589" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/ca2cdb5dc5a2c89541f97fc0843d51c4f6b6fb41b2a78d9a57cea85e8180bd1a/2211--library-chair-2.jpg" data-mid="1384594" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="784" width_o="1200" height_o="784" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/d5de94577ef5db23e07ffe107e1358b294de23fd4d7f53102c7d22cfba1a9e08/2211--library-4-books.jpg" data-mid="1384595" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/edadf2a47a111403c920f82b19d34ef60543288734e5f1457893c225df19f345/2211--trailer-1-side.jpg" data-mid="1384600" border="0" />M.A.S.S.I.V.E. Power Station 2024U-built trailer, room divider, 5V solar panels and charge controller, electrical wiring, 12V RV battery, modified Makita battery charger, 18V Makita batteries, yarrow, planters, Husky storage tote, stool, traffic cones, reflective banner, Nalgene bottle, sound equipment, spray paint, wood, aluminum, plastic bins Dimensions variable <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/3de120e89c456a249b39050aa7e18d881111d84b44e5bc42a0e0ae33dda7e972/2211--trailer-1-front-1.jpg" data-mid="1384596" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="1800" width_o="1200" height_o="1800" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/b9fe5b5db003c44c30dde8c931f0993060cb0573fea231e0d1d4439708453435/2211--trailer-1-back.jpg" data-mid="1384598" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/f442737022951278a7a2b634f76077376cb35f63eeea402d59306760905682be/2211--trailer-2-contents-2.jpg" data-mid="1384602" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/58732964a15020e1665c361980bc0e6c697eef4b2b30b5ae23c289aa4ee73a5a/2211--trailer-2-contents-3-solar-junction.jpg" data-mid="1384603" border="0" /> Reading ListGibson, William. Neuromancer. 1984. New York, New York, Berkley, 2018.Haraway, Donna J..“A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,” Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, Routledge, New York, 1991. p. 149-181.Krenak, Ailton. Ideas to Postpone the End of the World. Translated by Anthony Doyle, House of Anansi Press Inc, 2020.Wilk, Elvia. “Is Ornamenting Solar Panels a Crime?” E-Flux, 2018. https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/positions/191258/is-ornamenting-solar-panels-a-crime/.Wakkary, Ron L.. Things we could design: For more than human-centered worlds. MIT Press. 2021.Shelley, Mary W.. Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus : the 1818 Text. Oxford University Press, New York. 1998.Butler, Octavia. A Few Rules for Predicting the Future. 2000. Chronicle Books, 2024, https://app.kortext.com/borrow/2525065.Loveless, Natalie. How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation. Duke University Press, 2019, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1220kts.&nbsp;  Work M.A.S.S.I.V.E. (Make-shift Anthropocene Symbiosis Station...) M.A.S.S.I.V.E. (Make-shift Anthropocene Symbiosis Station and Interface for Vibrant... http://lucasglenn.net/Alien-2022 Thu, 29 Jun 2023 18:25:09 +0000 Lucas Glenn 445037  Work Alien (Echelon) Surface Matters Group exhibitionXL GalleryNewcastle, UKMarch 28– April 18, 2022 <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/d31178e6e11884ba87ab13e86d91c0da57cb26e0818be88374e911a553ac686b/echelon-surface-matters-full-installation-newcastle-2.JPG" data-mid="1383425" border="0" /> Lucas Glenn’s practice is one of repurpose— fashioning found material to speculate utopian and dystopian spaces for posthuman kinship and trouble. Alien, like many of his works, is a space of ecological strangeness. Alien consists of late-night footage taken from a CCTV camera at the fourth tee of a golf course near Glenn’s studio. The footage is paired with stretched and distorted music from science-fiction soundtracks.Its title references Ridley Scott’s Alien, a&nbsp;1979 film known for describing horror with restraint. In Scott’s film, the camera-shy alien only receives 4 minutes of total screen time. Glenn’s video takes a similar approach, describing the uncanny and monstrous through grainy, dark pixelation rather than detail. A solitary labourer tends to the course. Vehicle headlights come in and out of view, exposing the terrain’s shape as they pass. A distant island’s radio towers methodically flash in an unclear sequence. Light imposes an extraterrestrial texture on this otherwise familiar space. The film’s uncanny qualities echoe the strangeness of the place itself. The Royal Victoria Golf Club, the oldest golf course in Canada, stretches its facsimiles of Scottish hills across kilometres of stolen territory. An alien imposition on the coastline’s rocky, saline meadows.– Statement from exhibiton <img width="1200" height="1525" width_o="1200" height_o="1525" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/3aca35a7e0af3a90cf8c0c71fee5eab18843b58ae55da80a8049d1ed180448bf/echelon-surface-matters-lucas-glenn-newcastle-1.JPG" data-mid="1383426" border="0" />Alien 2022 Single-channel video, sound Slow DecayGroup exhibitionAudain Gallery, University of VictoriaFebruary 14–18, 2024 <img width="1200" height="801" width_o="1200" height_o="801" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/09f96a36264fc7a0d4efddb48cedd92fe241589a2759ca23cb6f9d6c87193bf3/echelon-lucas-glenn-slowdecayslow42.JPG" data-mid="1383428" border="0" /> Glenn’s time pulses at a different rate. By observing human activity on a golf course for an entire day, time reveals the inner workings of leisure, making its mark on our environment even more apparent.– Excerpt from exhibition essay, Megan Dickie <img width="1200" height="801" width_o="1200" height_o="801" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/212118121176bdef4c76f164ea57443b25dc3946c3406e98cc806d1951144f57/echelon-lucas-glenn-slowdecayslow37.JPG" data-mid="1383429" border="0" /> Alien on CRT with concrete chock Digital video, media plyer, CRT television, media player, USB, cinder block, cast concrete chock 24 x 49 x 16 in 2022 <img width="1200" height="801" width_o="1200" height_o="801" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/7eadc8303fa7a1d4fe5c6016b2039108b1aa9bd7eb9fca6065670dd7140563fb/echelon-lucas-glenn-slowdecayslow41.JPG" data-mid="1383427" border="0" />  Work Alien (Echelon) Surface Matters Group exhibitionXL GalleryNewcastle, UKMarch 28– April 18, 2022 Lucas Glenn’s practice is one of repurpose—... http://lucasglenn.net/Seed-Bomb-Recipe-and-9-Statements-2023 Fri, 09 Jun 2023 22:16:42 +0000 Lucas Glenn 444167  Work Seed Bomb Recipe and 9 Statements Open Word Issue #2Contributions from Hiromi Goto, Erica H. Isomura, Sarah Jim, and Lucas GlennEdited by Toby Lawrence and Dani NeiraDesign by Victoria LumOpen SpaceVictoria, BC2023 With literary and visual art collaborations by Hiromi Goto + Erica H. Isomura and Sarah Jim + Lucas Glenn, this issue is guest edited by Dani Neira and reflects on relationships with human and non-human kin. Open Word Issue #2 contributes to Open Space’s ongoing engagement with what it means to be 50 Years on This Land.– Publisher summary <img width="1200" height="1587" width_o="1200" height_o="1587" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/9d9c3072cc245e939222f46314013e2cf71741527eba9870b080a3370ca17d80/Page-image-compressed.jpg" data-mid="1293737" border="0" />Seed Bomb Recipe and 9 Statements Lucas Glenn and Sarah Jim 11x17&nbsp; <img width="1080" height="638" width_o="1080" height_o="638" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/46eec40171c24822fe323456f629a906cd54f083347013fe7c769b9e372b0411/352830134_1293023854948790_5064241339416376850_n.jpg" data-mid="1383433" border="0" />  Work Seed Bomb Recipe and 9 Statements Open Word Issue #2Contributions from Hiromi Goto, Erica H. Isomura, Sarah Jim, and Lucas GlennEdited by Toby... http://lucasglenn.net/Compost-Cycles-for-Island-X-2023 Thu, 16 Mar 2023 17:31:21 +0000 Lucas Glenn 439936  Work ◡ ◠ ⭘ ◠ ◡ (Compost Cycles for Island X) ◡ ◠ ⭘ ◠ ◡ (Compost Cycles for Island X)MFA Thesis ExhibitionAudain Gallery, University of VictoriaVictoria, BCApril 26 – May 3, 2023 A large, multi-room shelter stands stands upright, outfitted with salvaged industrial materials. At its base is a dioramic rock formation with patches of dirt and small coastal plants. Carved with the graphemes of an unfamiliar language, and animated with sound and light, the shelter’s rooms contain details about the possible inhabitants; one or many beings who use human debris, plant matter, and waste to survive in a collapsing climate. It is backdropped by a projection of a digital ocean scene, pouring with rain, and revealing small, possibly similar islands in the distance. Off to the side is a storage room recreating the artist’s studio. It includes in-progress objects for/from the shelter, speculative drawings of shelters made with salvaged materials, and notes about a fictional language, perhaps belonging to the being(s) of this island. Archetyped and detailed similar to the island’s rooms, the storage room implicates the artist as a possible occupant of the shelter. ◡ ◠ ⭘ ◠ ◡ uses fiction and play to explore speculative futures in a collapsing climate. It utilizes materials like real and fake plant matter, salvaged metal, reclaimed wood, hand tools, and electronics, tethering its speculative approach to a material now.— Exhibition statementI’ve come across three “transcendent” words in the language. These are ◡, ◠, and ⭘. Whereas all other characters in the alphabet are connected by stems to a baseline, ◡, ◠, and ⭘ transcend, They float above the baseline. Ur (◡) is the bottom half of a circle, referred to as the carrier. On (◠) is the top half of a circle, referred to as the coverer or protector. Oh (⭘) is a full circle, referred to as the carrier-coverer. which visually transcend the baselines of the written language, floating above or around. The three words are polysemous, meaning they each contain many meanings. They can each be used as a verb, a noun, or adjective. And as words, are used genuinely and ironically. Their meaning depends on their context. Among many things, ◡ can refer to being affectionate, benevolent, or warm. It can refer to a barrel, a mouth, the bottom of something (including a bum), a bowl, a collection, sex, soil, or supplies. It can mean to carry, to caress, to grow, to discuss, to love, or to transport. Among many things, ◠ can refer to being durable, resistant, strong, or snug. It can refer to a blanket, a canopy, a leaf, the moon, shade, shelter, the sky, the sun, or a tarp. It can mean to cover, to fasten, to guard, to protect, to shade, to provide shelter, to shelter oneself or others, to shield, or to wrap. ⭘, as a written character, expresses the combination of ◡ and ◠. It can refer to being perfect or total. It can refer to all things, including time and space. It can refer to a covered vehicle or boat, an ecosystem, a shared home, a parent or guardian, utopia (which itself may contain or be contained by dystopia), affection, as well as world-and-nonworld. It often refers to kinship actions like to parent or be parented, to raise kin or be raised as kin, and to be born or to bear children. It can mean to be both a host and a guest simultaneously, to transport in a protecting way, to keep safe while traveling (“⭘!”, one might say to wish safe travels), to share or to teach.— Excerpt from exhibition essay Photo credits: Max Keene <img width="1200" height="1798" width_o="1200" height_o="1798" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/73915a7d6d0a4b0dd387bce8392c0e22dbef8f01efa816220b753c2aafdeb8bd/LucasDefence18.jpeg" data-mid="1285228" border="0" /> ◡ ◠ ⭘ ◠ ◡ (Compost Cycles for Island X) Found industrial welding rig, wood, steel, poly, insulation foam, cans, jars, containers, paper, pencil, ink, paint, inkjet prints, laser prints, glue, vinyl, wool, bricks, hand tools, soil, plants, stones, compost/biomatter, artificial plants, projector, video, speakers, sound, LED lights, various other found and modified objects 2023 <img width="1200" height="801" width_o="1200" height_o="801" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/fb773f70bac7efc2590479e11a313d84f5f3b8037c85dd73bfac6569ed61f4af/LucasDefence22.jpeg" data-mid="1285237" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="801" width_o="1200" height_o="801" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/aa2179b3516daff0c2c317cc754a256a6edec37a08df496a0e97f88efe7082e1/LucasDefence05.jpeg" data-mid="1285232" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="801" width_o="1200" height_o="801" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/5f808cb9fdffbd8666cc09148382c9f8eef4af3149a54215c3863951e9437b0a/LucasDefence06.jpeg" data-mid="1285234" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="801" width_o="1200" height_o="801" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/4b2f398be25b55de917bcff4d958aaaf19eff64bdb68683e492c1d1c47dd300c/LucasDefence07.jpeg" data-mid="1285229" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="801" width_o="1200" height_o="801" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/59c6761c5509d021bd6687d3c7bf991b64ba27bb7d213e2caf3b56346623ea15/LucasDefence03.jpeg" data-mid="1285238" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/448fd6ea049acedb1faab9731fa271d29bc2fdcaa86c182cfede4f846201b624/IMG_7640-Enhanced-NR.jpg" data-mid="1294685" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/89f3be95c69ccb2f8afd1303bbbebc02f1aa2c066e7a39091271304cc5ad60b6/IMG_7642-Enhanced-NR.jpg" data-mid="1294684" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="1798" width_o="1200" height_o="1798" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/080661a0acbb4dc258579f29bea450c6c0565f83f3c1c6ad4fd58afcad48f43f/LucasDefence09.jpeg" data-mid="1285247" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="1798" width_o="1200" height_o="1798" 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src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/911673c5728b0d7135e083048bfe5c86733c0b5c5884a9ad2aacf0b5dddc5c86/LucasDefence23.jpeg" data-mid="1285246" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="1798" width_o="1200" height_o="1798" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/4a9196911b8c16c484591d972453f639de854037f7b97e89e817f31de9f3efa0/LucasDefence16.jpeg" data-mid="1285231" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="1798" width_o="1200" height_o="1798" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/a68c4537ab7e3a505af9c727b9ef5f870dc097b5d304583d17e570cf9d96596d/LucasDefence17.jpeg" data-mid="1285244" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="1798" width_o="1200" height_o="1798" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/2fea62c397989ef3ade1bb85f50a78141c3c96af125c7dc34f92cfb7be87085d/LucasDefence15-2.jpeg" data-mid="1285251" border="0" />  Work ◡ ◠ ⭘ ◠ ◡ (Compost Cycles for Island X) ◡ ◠ ⭘ ◠ ◡ (Compost Cycles for Island X)MFA Thesis ExhibitionAudain Gallery, University of... http://lucasglenn.net/A-Plant-a-Sea-a-Plan-a-Seed-2022 Mon, 08 Aug 2022 03:08:22 +0000 Lucas Glenn 428683  Work A Plant, a Sea, a Plan, a Seed From Here OnGroup exhibitionVictoria Arts Council GalleryJuly 29 – August 28, 2022<img src="https://akimbo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/aug8_chash1.jpg" width="600" height="324" style="width: 448.92px; height: 242.4168px;"> From Here On is an exhibition of works produced by ten MFA students at the University of Victoria, who are at pivotal points in their practices. Growing together amidst recent years of uncertainty, these artists nurture mutually supportive relationships to enrich their diverse ways of working.As a container for relationships and diverse practices, From Here On suggests a point of departure. A moment of turning from what was, towards new and undetermined directions.– Colton HashInstallation audio: Your browser does not support the audio element. <img width="1200" height="1798" width_o="1200" height_o="1798" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/0367b4a95dff4846b6eb0ce219efda6962d4d1cf8274c3c4e36bb3a3b1a72318/fromhereon16.JPG" data-mid="1213540" border="0" /> A plant, a sea, a plan, a seed 2022Aluminum, wood, steel, containers, dried ivy, ink and pencil on paper, wool blanket, metal cabinet, inkjet prints, hand tools, soil, artificial plants, radio and audio transmitter, sound4 x 4 x 8 ft <img width="1200" height="801" width_o="1200" height_o="801" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/5c841fd1e6cfbe1b911dca5a3ca1cc247b35224b07486d5566a1ed01cd8b1b25/fromhereon17.JPG" data-mid="1213547" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="1798" width_o="1200" height_o="1798" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/10b3f8e16b409b6c923b8ba124aac19d4f82ceed69b4f66faa6c437b926ceb18/fromhereon21.JPG" data-mid="1213546" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="1798" width_o="1200" height_o="1798" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/05710c5562867da51ee3818605815c1835e8e9bb3c0b9e262001bf53a71e73eb/fromhereon20.JPG" data-mid="1213543" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="801" width_o="1200" height_o="801" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/95ac8c523382ea7c0d733cb51224ba5beb3c1967064428e8e344dffb88cb139a/fromhereon18.JPG" data-mid="1213544" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="1799" width_o="1200" height_o="1799" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/beadb6cc0b35b69b918ff9e1d44d6c23309e7edf1fb3473e94bc4ce49eedcbfb/fromhereon24.JPG" data-mid="1213541" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="801" width_o="1200" height_o="801" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/e433bc594e8f997bfb47e0fc8cbd7cbe64e075e1f991c6bf0016573f81deaaa7/fromhereon22.JPG" data-mid="1213545" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="1798" width_o="1200" height_o="1798" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/e144127a5a4b396d5a51304f50b0016d0023464c94b77139b2bd616fcd7a0425/fromhereon23.JPG" data-mid="1213548" border="0" />  Work A Plant, a Sea, a Plan, a Seed From Here OnGroup exhibitionVictoria Arts Council GalleryJuly 29 – August 28, 2022 From Here On is an exhibition of... http://lucasglenn.net/Equipment-space-2021 Tue, 31 Aug 2021 23:47:46 +0000 Lucas Glenn 411113  Work Equipment-space Equipment-spaceLucas Glenn and Mat GlennLake Country Art GalleryFebruary 27 – April 10, 2021 As with all of todays' living creatures, Mat Glenn and Lucas Glenn’s lived experiences simultaneously straddle the seemingly incompatible spheres of the physical and the virtual, the natural and technological, the ‘real’ and the simulated.As contemporary subjects, our corporeal existence anachronistically bounds us to our physical environments, however mediated this experience and this environment might be. Performing wage-labour, crossing geographical terrain via combustion engines, consuming genetically modified plants and animals; daily interactions and activities are mediated by human systems that have completely transformed direct engagements with the physical, or ‘real’ world. And yet we rely on our bodies and on these natural systems entirely. While technocrats like Elon Musk may want us to believe otherwise, there is no viable life on Mars. We have only the real world.But what is the ‘real’ world? When the distinctions between innate and artificial intelligence are increasingly difficult to discern, when ecosystems self-regulate in response to human technologies, when the rate of change for both ‘natural’ and virtual systems seems to be increasingly immeasurable, any attempt to distinguish between the ‘authentic’ and the constructed, the ‘natural’ and the unnatural, merely reflects an arcane or nostalgic world-view. The simultaneity of mass extinctions and Quantum computing seems to indicate that what exists is a hybrid, increasingly complex system currently in a state of accelerated change. Just as certain physical phenomena cannot be ascertained by human consciousness, these rates of systemic change have seemingly accelerated beyond that to which Human cultures can (or are willing to) adapt. In other words, today’s ‘real world’ is, in fact, a ‘wicked problem’1. In Equipment-space, Mat Glenn and Lucas Glenn’s creative outputs recognize this wicked problem through a series of polymorphous strategies that articulate their perceived location in this contemporary context. Sculptural assemblages merging the human and non-human, animal and vegetable, digital and analogue, explore themes central to their work such as precarious labor, ecosystems, technological interfaces and hybridity. Equipment-space locates our (both human and non-human) collective immersion in this hyperspace between the real and the virtual. Sculptural assemblages featuring humanoid figures, fossil-fuel powered vehicles, live plants and computer-generated fantasy worlds address the circular logics of the neoliberal technosphere (wherein ‘limitless growth’ of resource extraction and alienated labor confront the material limits of bodies and environments). Equipment Space asks us to consider the physical, material and conceptual boundaries of our worlds, the limits of our experiences, and the possibilities of our collective future.— Notes:1The term wicked problem refers to: …a problem that is difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize. It refers to an idea or problem that cannot be fixed, where there is no single solution to the problem; and "wicked" denotes resistance to resolution, rather than evil. Another definition is "a problem whose social complexity means that it has no determinable stopping point". Moreover, because of complex interdependencies, the effort to solve one aspect of a wicked problem may reveal or create other problems. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem, last accessed Mar 7, 2021— Holly Ward  Work Equipment-space Equipment-spaceLucas Glenn and Mat GlennLake Country Art GalleryFebruary 27 – April 10, 2021 As with all of todays' living... http://lucasglenn.net/Quiet-Reckonings-of-Many-Species-Objects-2021 Tue, 31 Aug 2021 22:59:17 +0000 Lucas Glenn 411112  Work Quiet Reckonings of Many Species and Objects Sound MachinesAlison Beaumont, Doug Buis, Lucas Glenn, Daryl Kehler, Geri Matthew, Daniela O’Fee, Louis Thomas and Heather YipSalmon Arm Arts CentreJuly 2 – August 21, 2021 <img width="500" height="333" width_o="500" height_o="333" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/05892f09630379a71e99f40eca0606294850bf2cfc58ef5f88778280f205c315/install-salmon-arm-arts-centre-4.jpg" data-mid="1383440" border="0" /> In this past year, the pandemic has pushed us to find innovative ways to deliver the same cultural services to the community, and engage people as they struggle with an unknown future, isolation and concern for loved ones. Among the many new digital outcomes was the creation of the Marie Manson Virtual Artist Residency. Two artists were selected to receive the award over the course of a 4-month virtual residency in collaboration with Secwépemc Knowledge-Keeper Louis Thomas. Through bi-weekly zoom check-ins and thoughtful conversation about integrating Secwepemc land knowledge into settler artworks, Heather Yip and Lucas Glenn created their responses to the challenge, and are integral contributors to this exhibition. We are extremely grateful to Louis Thomas for guiding this residency, offering his extensive knowledge of this land and its history for these two artists to explore. — Excerpt from Curator’s Statement, Tracey Kutschker Listen to the plants and the animals. Try to learn their languages. Try speaking with them. Secwepemc Knowledge-Keeper Louis Thomas shared this advice with me, after I asked him how people, especially settlers like myself, could better relate to the more-than-human world. I made this installation as a reflection on listening. It’s about the enmeshed trouble that I encounter when trying to listen to a more-than-human world. A plastic chorus frog perches on a piece of driftwood. An oil can floats in the pond. An old dirt bike tire is enmeshed in dirt and moss. This work documents strange, hybrid languages I heard along the south side of Shuswap Lake.— Excerpt from Artist’s Statement, Lucas Glenn <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/59c859cc6da2d2fcbab513c8dad02f03f4e5a05f0bd5f1a71f49e794c7865c1d/IMG_7458.jpg" data-mid="1119544" border="0" />Quiet Reckonings of Many Species and ObjectsLucas Glenn with Elder Louis Thomas (Secwepemc)Plastic decoys and toys, snowmobile hand-guard, dried grasses, fake plants, water and fountain pump, grasses, motor oil container, wood, paint, glue, foam, plaster, paper clay, stones, clay, stainless steel wire, speakers with MP3 player and audio, waterproof container.Dimensions vary2022Installation audio: Your browser does not support the audio element. <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/0dc619e29b0d59db3e75dddf769567ef82fad3ea398e62f40647bdb590b3bf34/IMG_7460.jpg" data-mid="1119548" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/ebb27ea2ae1062fccda3f38a497d209138028e46b4c882aa8093cc84bc844c70/IMG_7462.jpg" data-mid="1119545" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/fd2158fbc0a1339385b840af967dfd02b5f8fcd4c7013a813e3226b8953c2b75/IMG_7464.jpg" data-mid="1119550" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/96abc4555cffe520d305f69f341a3f309af797eebb6b811e42f62493b8236537/IMG_7499.jpg" data-mid="1119546" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/a4850363b753c51c103553baa701ba8205ec111754a1b6aa4cfe1185f0c367ac/IMG_7491.jpg" data-mid="1175156" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/45dd55dfc9824eefa595886a4da4f4761a1787b27ec9016634df72d329e10e23/IMG_7467.jpg" data-mid="1119552" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/2420d8bc172e9768845e767b45b0ab2136ad05bb10abd502f3ec302cfe28362f/IMG_7502.jpg" data-mid="1119549" border="0" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/0c4c01bc3edcdd69f9002c8be96ce77c59deb7c5dd6bdc468ba7bb22b2b381b5/IMG_7490.jpg" data-mid="1119543" border="0" />  Work Quiet Reckonings of Many Species and Objects Sound MachinesAlison Beaumont, Doug Buis, Lucas Glenn, Daryl Kehler, Geri Matthew, Daniela O’Fee,...