COMPANY TOWN: MOVING AND LISTENING TO A BODY (OF RESEARCH)
VIDEO WORK AND PRINTED GAME
PART OF ‘COMPANY TOWN’, A GROUP INSTALLATION
CREATED WITH ANNE WHITE, LILLIAN ROSS-MILLARD, ANN JAEGER AND ERYN LIDSTER
PRESENTED AT ARTSPACE PETERBOROUGH GALLERY AND ONLINE
Company Town is a live and online installation that maps the complex legacy of the General Electric factory in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong. We see mapping as a creative tool for addressing the factory site as a layered space:a 50-acre lot of buildings mostly sitting in a state of disuse in the south end of the city and a non-literal space imbued with memory, imagination and association. We undertake this project at a moment when the representation of this factory as a benevolent local force is being contested by horrific information brought forward by former workers.
Company Town was developed in two parts: as a temporary installation at Artspace and as a digital installation in the form of a website.
