Rachael Chaisson and Rita McKeough | Asterisms: Water Ways

Artists Rachael Chaisson and Rita McKeough consider two of Alberta’s distinct aquatic ecosystems—ephemeral prairie ghost ponds and the Rocky Mountain headwaters of the Eastern Slopes. Their peer-mentorship exhibition combines interactive sculpture, electronic media, sound and video, allowing visitors to listen directly to the region’s species in a changing environment. Chaisson’s textile installation features floating video field recordings activated by a pond-shaped bed, while McKeough’s animated floor projections and bird models broadcast a mourning chorus of bull trout and Clark’s nutcrackers pleading for human solidarity. saag.ca