Making Winter

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Event Information

Artist: Jaclyn Meloche

“Making Winter” is a performance about bridging time and place. During the scheduled time of Conflux 2007, I will sit and make enough snowflakes to cover the ground around me and make snow angels.

“Making Winter” is a performance about bridging geography and climate change. As a Canadian artist living and working in New York City, I have become more aware of my environment and the conditions that characterize it. What I have become most sensitive to is the absence of snow. In an attempt to fill this void, I am creating a performance in which I am going to make winter. I will spend the entire scheduled time of the four-day festival making snowflakes. While sitting on the sidewalk, I intend to fill two buckets with small hand cut snowflakes. During the last hour of the last day, I want cover the area around me with snow, and play in, roll in it, and make snow angels in it. In the context of global warming and our ever-changing environment, this performance comments on the so-called erasure of winter. “Making Winter” also explores how one can recreate and relive their youth in a new environment. Accustomed to Canadian snow-filled winter landscapes, I want to blur the boundaries between winter in New York and the suburban winter that defined my childhood. Interested in how I can merge two specific landscapes into one, I want to create a dialogue between the landscape I know and experience today, and the one I remember from my past.