During the summer of 2010, Broken City Lab put together a residency called ‘Storefront Residencies for Social Innovation’. SRSI called upon Canadian artists to occupy and work out of vacant storefronts along Pelissier Street in Windsor, Ontario. A friend and collaborator, Daragh Sankey chose to document the entire process from storefront acquisition to individual project completion. He is now releasing a series of mini-documentaries on his website Angry Robot.

Daragh’s introduction to the video:

Downtown Windsor is framed by two landmarks: the Ambassador Bridge in the West, and the casino in the east. They are sights to behold, especially at night. Last week we looked at the bridge (and in fact we will return to it by way of Indian Road in a later film). So it’s only right that we now turn to the casino.

This week we follow Robin Fitzsimons as she trains to become the ultimate gambler, and then faces off against the mighty Caesars Windsor, icon of Windsor’s tourist industry.

via: Broken City Lab

During the summer of 2010, Broken City Lab put together a residency called ‘Storefront Residencies for Social Innovation’. SRSI called upon Canadian artists to occupy and work out of vacant storefronts along Pelissier Street in Windsor, Ontario. A friend and collaborator, Daragh Sankey chose to document the entire process from storefront acquisition to individual project completion. He is now releasing a series of mini-documentaries on his website Angry Robot.

Daragh’s introduction to the video:

“This week, we follow Thea Jones over the Ambassador Bridge to Detroit.

Thea had recently done a research paper about Detroit. I’m pretty sure she was drawn to the Windsor residency for the opportunity it presented to visit what has become the poster child of broken post-industrial cities. I also was fascinated by Detroit; I’m sure many of us are. Toronto, where I’m from, is sort of the opposite: a thriving, very expensive downtown, where successful information & service industries have replaced industry.

This was in contrast to Windsor residents who of course, being right across the river, are pretty used to Detroit. Its ruins are much less exotic to them. So don’t roll your eyes at the ruin porn, Windsor pals! The film doesn’t really stay there; the field trip to Heidelberg is a trip to a whole other side of Detroit-the-symbol.”

via: Broken City Lab

During the summer of 2010, Broken City Lab put together a residency called ‘Storefront Residencies for Social Innovation’. SRSI called upon Canadian artists to occupy and work out of vacant storefronts along Pelissier Street in Windsor, Ontario. A friend and collaborator, Daragh Sankey chose to document the entire process from storefront acquisition to individual project completion. He is now releasing a series of mini-documentaries on his website Angry Robot.

Daragh’s introduction to the video:

“There is a whole narrative to Bell Payphone Labs. Laura got into the lab coat for every installation she did, playing the role of the phone scientist. She had a little lab area in the storefronts the whole time as well, with educational posters about her department’s enterprises. I realized I had some assumptions about artists heading into this project: artists worked alone, used their own identities, and were removed from day-to-day life. Like lawyers, or dentists. But over the course of things I realized there were many artist collectives, artists who assumed different identities, and many who engaged with the world in far more interesting ways than I was expecting.”

via: Broken City Lab

During the summer of 2010, Broken City Lab put together a residency called ‘Storefront Residencies for Social Innovation’. SRSI called upon Canadian artists to occupy and work out of vacant storefronts along Pelissier Street in Windsor, Ontario. A friend and collaborator, Daragh Sankey chose to document the entire process from storefront acquisition to individual project completion. He is now releasing a series of mini-documentaries on his website Angry Robot.

About this video:

“We’re going to start things off with this film that gives a little background. We follow Broken City Lab as they take possession of the storefronts, get them ready for the residencies, and discuss the location and the ideas behind the project. Plus, demon toilet and exploding painting!”

via: Broken City Lab

This isn’t really news, but I forgot to post it weeks ago. Oops!

I am contributing music to a travel-themed TV show about the world’s oceans called Descending. It premiers February 19th at 9pm on OLN. Stay tuned!