4 dimensional mapping

Canadian Art

2011-10-05T18:50:00.000-02:30

Browsing the Fall edition of Canadian art, we just came across a very nice description of the project we undertook in Fogo Island:

"...Later, Gunnarsdottir gives me a present from the Arts Corporation: a publication the foundation produced, a booklet of an artist project called 4 dimensional mapping that she curated in August 2009.
The project included artists from France, Scotland and Switzerland, [rather anonymous, basically us and Erika Irmler] and involved local residents. It documented an investigation of the material culture of Fogo Island, and contained locals' verbatim descriptions of geographical markers and the sea, recipes of traditional dishes like Jiggs' dinner, drawings of local architecture and other cultural points of interest, photographical portraits of residents, and copies of postcards sent to Glasgow detailing aspects of the island life. In its careful documentation of the culture, the 4 dimensional mapping project was not so different from the careful documentation undertaken by the original Fogo Process."

Rock Haven, Fogo Island’s Newfoundland art-residency experiment
by Lisa Moore

seascape 4

2009-08-31T15:32:00.006-02:30

Another person to share with us their knowledge of the water, marks and seascape from their house, despite the beginning of the Tropical Storm Danny (didn't feel that tropical).

We're missing Erika and her skills in capturing the atmosphere of the place, but we're doing our best to follow on her footsteps.

Boat building

2009-08-30T11:21:00.005-02:30

Windy days, even if Winston tells us that it's just a gentle breeze.

To continue the seascape project we went and met Frank, a boat builder in Tilting.

So much to hear about boat buildings and stories that happened to Frank, that we didn't have time to ask him about the seascape outside his window.

Marks

2009-08-30T11:11:00.003-02:30

Earlier this week Ane and Aidan showed us some of the marks they use to find fishing shoals. They could cite by memory the names of about 70 shoals just outside of Joe Batt's Arm and would know the marks for each of them.

Seascape

2009-08-27T14:34:00.004-02:30

Erika left, back to Geneva.
Now with a reduced team we started putting the material together for the final work.

Transcription of the video recordings of the seascapes

Dinner

2009-08-24T11:10:00.005-02:30

As people invited us to eat some traditional food, we thought it would be nice to return the favour and invite them for a dinner in our house. We cooked a range of dishes (all vegetables and eggs from Winston's garden): quiches, brandade de morue (traditional mediterranean dish using salted cod), snow crab legs, coconut curry shrimps, scallops, salad, grilled salmon, roasted vegetables and a tarte tattin.
A very nice evening with accordion played by Joe and some singing from Greg and Melinda.

Seascape

2009-08-24T11:05:00.003-02:30

As we were interested by the difference between the perception of the sea from an outsider as a flat surface and its understanding as a landscape with its hills, mountains, summits, valleys and plains by fishermen, Bonnie showed us a printed scroll she got from an old sonar system used in fishing boats showing the relief of the seascape. The sea as a chain of mountains.

Seascape

2009-08-22T14:05:00.004-02:30

We're asking a few people about the features of the seascape over and underneath the surface from their window, this is Pete.
Pete describing the seascape from his back door

Jiggs dinner

2009-08-22T13:53:00.004-02:30

Phyllis cooked us Jiggs dinner in her cabin.
Jiggs dinner is another traditional meal with salt meat, boiled vegetables, peas pudding, and dumplings, a cross between a British sunday lunch and a stew. The slat meat is a traditional way of preserving meat to last for the winter and the vegetables are the staple of the crop in Fogo Island's gardens.

On the way to Phyllis' and Frank's cabin

The Dough Boys, or dumplings

Markings

2009-08-22T11:09:00.004-02:30

A boat trip with Pete showing us some marks to find fishing spots and hidden rocks, a triangulation method using the lining up of land features.

Presentation

2009-08-22T11:05:00.002-02:30

Presentation of our respective practices at the Shorecast Foundation premises.

Fish and brewis

2009-08-22T10:55:00.005-02:30

We're looking at the traditional meal prepared on Fogo Island, how the ingredients and the cooking methods illustrate the place and its origin.

Winston and Linda cooked us Fish and brewis with scrunchions, an old recipe of dry bread and salted cod with salt fat pork, or scrunchions. The recipe was one used on fishing boats when the crew was away for weeks or months and needed non perishable ingredients.

Winston's gardens

2009-08-22T10:42:00.004-02:30

Winston cultivates a number of gardens, demonstrating the variety of vegetables that can grow on the Island. Traditionally all household had a garden, but with the more easily accessible shops and the fact that they need to be looked after at the same time as the fishing season, there are fewer gardens now.

One of Winston's garden

Punt

2009-08-22T10:34:00.003-02:30

A quick row on Bonnie's punt -the traditional boat- in Tilting Harbour. Fishermen used to fish for cod on these boats.

Brimstone Head Festival

2009-08-19T11:30:00.002-02:30

As part of the Brimstone Head Folk Festival, Elisabet participated in the square dancing.

Iceberg ice

2009-08-19T11:27:00.003-02:30

As a refreshment, Bonnie offered us "Iceberg ice", literally a block of ice carved out of bits of icebergs passing by in spring.

Group

2009-08-19T11:24:00.002-02:30

Mark Adams, Erika Irmler, Charles Blanc, Bonnie McCay, Tristan Surtees, on the Lion Den's track.

2009-08-18T23:02:00.002-02:30

Here we start.