on 5.972×10^24 kg (The Situation Room)

This is an enveloping installation of projections (three are still images and one, a video wall) comprising the following works:
as you walk in, you face Expansion (Pit) (2005) (the west wall):


Expansion (Pit)
(2005)


to your left, on the south wall is Call (Camouflage 1985/2022) :


Call: Camouflage 1985/2022
(2022)


on the north wall to your right, is the Response:

Response: Orbitas 2003/2023
(2023)



on the east wall, video:


Fauna
(2016-21)

These works are atypically in rectalinear format, to suit the content (unusual for Bowie's installations). You can read details of the four works comprising this installation by clicking on each of the images above, but in brief, Expansion (Pit) is the building site where Flow was ultimately installed that sits flanking a centeries-old trading road of the of the əəθkʷə̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵw̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and sə̓lil̓wətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations that was colonized into the name Kingsway as it met with Main Street. (Each morning, Flow would start with an image of the site in the 1800s, when it was clearcut and burned. This image is found by clicking on Pit
As a group these works posit how landscape has been historically changed under colonialisms' regimens of capital and exploitation with
no regard for the peoples fauna it extracts or destroys. Call (Camouflage 1985/2022) illustrates this clearly (you can read the history
of colonization of that area in particular ). Out of sight, out of minds it is emblematic of British Columbia's ongoing clear cutting.
Call (Camouflage 1985/2022) was one of Bowie's Shadow Works/i>series, where satalite screen grabs of contested sites are paired with
their historical data or altered and then introduced back to Google Earth in the location of the original image as 'faux tourist'images.
Both and Response(2023),illustrates how quickly nature can bounce back when nutured and left on its own to recover.
(1+)Response: Orbitas is Bowie's record of her own year terra rehabilitation she undertook by collaborating with other organisms (from 2011-2022)
of her Orbitas project in Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
Fauna is a video compilation of the flora and fauna, mostly insects, that re-populated Orbitas over the 11 year period that Bowie worked on restoration of the once-clear cut site. (you can see and read more about the project here: The Flats, here: Plano Verde and here Orbitas)









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This artwork was created variously in Costa Rica and in K'emk'emeláy̓ (colonially known as Vancouver BC.), situated on the stolen, unceded, ancestral and current territories
of the xʷməθkʷəyəm (Musqueam), Sḵw̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and sə̓lil̓wətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. With respect and acknowledgement
of their aeons-long nationhood, cultures, knowledge, languages and all relations, we support ongoing actions and initiatives here and in the unceded Wet'suwet'en territories.