Our Home and Haunted Land
Our Home on Haunted Land by Nadine Valcin and Priam Givord produced by Ngardy Conteh George & Alison Duke of OYA Black Arts Coalition is a large-scale 2D projection that explores the colonial legacy linked to key landmarks in our city. The five-minute visual journey reveals the hidden histories that haunt us and make visible the Black and Indigenous presence on Turtle Island and Tkaronto.
Nadine Valcin is an award-winning bilingual filmmaker and media artist whose practice spans documentary, experimental and narrative film as well as installation and virtual reality. Her work explores questions of memory, identity and language. She holds a professional degree in architecture from McGill University and recently completed an MFA in Digital Futures at OCAD University and an artist’s residency at Library and Archives Canada through Archive/Counter Archive.
Priam GIVORD is a senior free-lance Director, Designer and Researcher. His works range from UX Design to large Interactive Installations and Virtual Reality. His 15 years experience with video game engines and Design have been the drive of a now established User Experience-based 3D application practice in the domain of commercial applications. He has been speaking and showing his work internationally at venues like the NYC MET and the SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics conference in California.
This project is supported by the City of Toronto as a part of ArtworxTO, CruxXR, Lucid Dreams Productions, Artizen, Vancouver Immersed Volumetric Market.
Adapted from a virtual reality project
The project features 3D models generated through photogrammetry
The projection is a prelude to a more in-depth virtual reality project that will link Toronto’s colonial histories with other locations around the world
Original Language: English (Versioning available)
Country of Production: Canada
