Zoe Kreye

I invited participants to draw with me, collaborative maps of significant locations from their lives. Through these map-like diagrams we began to recall and explore the location together. As we developed the maps, we also generated layers that described the physical landscape and people’s movements and experiences.

This was an earlier exploration of the project dedicated to you.

I built sculptural paper landscapes, as a reflection of the locations and relationships explored in the Mapping project.

Apples were collected from local orchards, built into boats and distributed with the public along the lakeshore. The intervention was intended to aid interaction with the public in a playful way that would draw attention to the over-determined symbols of the region. It was also an unstated memorial for the young woman who drown in the lake earlier that month.

I interviewed participants, asking them to describe their first childhood home. From recordings of these interviews, I drew blueprints attempting to interpret the interviewee’s memory of the space. The model was built from these blueprints. Small speakers were installed beneath the floor and the original interview could be heard faintly.

Performance, slides show a re-enactment for documentation.

I distributed invitations inviting people to be "tucked in” by me at their homes. I would arrive at the participants’ home at their bedtime and would incorporate myself into their nightly routine. They would brush their teeth, set their alarm, read a book, turn out the lights, then I would lock the door behind myself and leave them falling asleep.

I performed this project in Calgary in 2004 through The New Gallery and independently in Montréal in 2002

In collaboration with the residents of Moss Street I created a street side community memorial. I delivered invitations to each house on Moss Street (over 200) inviting residents to design a plaque to commemorate an event in their lives on Moss Street. During the annual Moss Street Paint-In, a public arts festival, I made the plaques that the residents and passers-by had requested. These plaques were mounted on small wooden stakes that were placed along the boulevard of Moss Street.

I relocated straw bales from the park's snow barrier to form a house shaped structure in the park. I left the sculpture to see how the community would interact with it. Within the 24 hours it existed, it was adapted and used as a shelter for the night and was disassembled by the parks crew shortly after, leaving no trace of its existence.

Commissioned by the Concordia University Sculpture Department, was installed in their courtyard from 2001-2002