M:ST 4.5 Artists
Kelly Jaclynn Andres (Lethbridge)
Urban Habitat Laboratory
Eau Claire Market and various locations in Calgary
July 27 to 31, 2009
The Urban Habitat Lab is a self-sufficient and sustainable mobile lab for communicating with a living, local environment. With her mobile laboratory, Andres incorporates the green consumer practices of prefab design, conservation, sustainability, and human-powered energy, while providing a format for individuals to interact with the natural habitat of a city. In a modified bicycle-turned-laboratory, the artist roams the neighborhood in order to disseminate overlooked and invisible information within the natural environment.
Urban Habitat Laboratory: Sustainability Workshops
Eau Claire Centre Court/North Plaza (weather permitting)
July 28 and July 29, 1PM and 5PM
Register by phoning 403.837.6678
Very Seedy Neighborhood
This workshop introduces participants to urban and guerrilla gardening tactics for the unnoticed and underutilized spaces in our neighborhoods.
Guilt-Free Geek
This workshop will demonstrate how anyone with a modest budget can set up a solar system to run basic electronics such as a laptop or other similar device. The hands on portion of this workshop will allow participants to experiment with simple electronics and set up a solar cell circuit.
Closet Gardener
The Closet Gardener workshop illustrates a multitude of fun and simple indoor and urban gardening techniques to grow your own food with the stuff you have lying around the house.
Sucker for a Syphon
Participants in the Sucker for a Syphon workshop will learn how to work with gravity based pumps and design a “grey water system” to implement at home.
Kelly Jaclynn Andres is an interdisciplinary artist who applies the apparatus of technology, portability, and location, from bicycles to communication devices, to create situations that combine the absurd with sensory-based experiences. By incorporating banal objects along with electronic media– often as interactions between species such as yeast, bacteria, poultry, plant, and human, Andres deploys simple systems, objects and performances that allow participants to explore and interact with the immediate environment. .
Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival Society
P.O. Box 22056 Bankers Hall R.P.O, Calgary, AB CA T2P 5G7
PH. 403.837.6678 email: info@mstfestival.org