Harbourfront Centre - Fresh Ground new works

The collective entity behind The Terrarium Project — Liminal Solutions — was initially formed as a collaborative to investigate questions of representation and reality as they apply to museums. The exhibition features several terrariums presented as living artifacts collected by a fictional scientist and eventually donated to a unusual fictional institution. Collaborating writers and artists will create the origins of the orphaned objects and individuals connected to each terrarium. The project will mesh fact, as seen in museums and institutions, with fiction or wonder, much like a story teller may trade reality for an enhanced presentation. The result will be an installation with cultivated interconnectedness.

The Collaborators

Panya Clark Espinal and Crystal Mowry, Project Leads: visual artists
Rebecca Duclos: art history and archaeology
Denton Fredrickson: multi-media installation artist
Andrew Hunter: artist, writer, curator
Eric Roesler: horticultural science
David Ross: artist, architecture, landscape and design
Gail Singer: writer, filmmaker

Commissioned in 2006

Presented in the York Quay Gallery
as part of Visual Arts at York Quay Centre
May 13 – July 9, 2006

Fresh Ground new works is made possible by the generosity of several major individual donors who have actively assisted in the creation of new Canadian artworks: Peter Allen, Lionel F. Conacher and Joan Dea, Margaret and Jim Fleck, John Kazanjian and Susan Soloway, Michael and Sonja Koerner, Judy and Wil Matthews, George E. Myhal, and grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the J.P. Bickell Foundation.

Fresh Ground new works

Commissions

The Terrarium Project

Liminal Solutions

The Collaborators