Extraction | 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale
Extraction represented Canada at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2016, in the Canadian Pavilion. The project, curated by Pierre Bélanger (OPSYS), comprised an installation, a film and a book on Canada's resource extraction. RVTR was part of the Extraction project team.
Exhibition
2016
Exhibitions and Installations
Overview
The project received the 2017 AZ Award for Social Good and the 2017 CSLA National Award of Excellence.
Credits
Leads: Pierre Bélanger (OPSYS), curator
Geoffrey Thün, Kathy Velikov, Colin Ripley
Research Assistants: Jen Ng, Andrew Wald, Dan Tish, Ya Suo
Curator: Pierre Bélanger (OPSYS)
Opsys: Zannah Matson, Chris Alton
Ecological Design Lab: Nina-Marie Lister
Hume Atelier: Kevin Hume, Genevieve Ennis Hume
Beites & Co.: Steven Beites, Filip Tisler
Blackwell Studio: Kelsey Blackwell
Collaborators: Alessandra Lai, Eriel Deranger (ACFN), Massimo Benedetti, Dr. Michele Caria, Jacob Moginot, Pedro Aparicio, Boram Lee, Irene Chin, Sam Gillis, Lindsay Fischer, Michael Awad, Olga Semenovych, Jane Zhang, Tiffany Dang, Carlo Urmy, Mark Jongman-Sereno, Kate Yoon, Hernan Bianchi Benguria, Emanuela Innelli, Aya Abdallah, Natalia Woldarsky Meneses, Hamed Bukhamseen, Chella Jade Strong
Additional Contributors: Alessandra Ponte, Suzanne Zeller, Alain Deneault, Alex Golub, Thomas King, Gord Hill, John van Nostrand, Peter Munk, Réal V. Benoit, Doug Morrison, Eriel Deranger, Chief Allan Adam, David Chancellor, Ossie Michelin, Max Haiven, Mel Watkins, Doug Morrison
Scope and support
Commissioner: Catherine Crowston (Art Gallery of Alberta)
Partnerships: Rich Bruggeman
Support: Canada Council for the Arts, RBC Foundation, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation, Ontario Association of Architects, Ryerson University, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture, The Walrus Foundation, Border Crossings, IGEA SpA, Gloria Irene Taylor, Barrick Gold, Verona Libri, The Nothern Miner, Canadian Architect, Azure, Graham Foundation, MIT Press, Air Canada Cargo
Acknowledgements: A Tribe Called Red (Ian 'DJ NDN' Campeau, Tim '2oolman' Hill, Bear Witness), Pierre & Jannelle Lassonde, Peter McGovern, Jasmina Zurovac, Mohsen Mostafavi, Phyllis Lambert, Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, Nick de Pencier, Kelvin Dushnisky, Alanna Heath, Simon Brault, Sylvie Gilbert, Brigitte Desrochers, Sacha Hastings, Geneviève Vallerand, Brigitte Shim & Howard Sutcliffe, Bruce Kuwabara, Robert Enright, David D'Arcy, Toon Dressen, Robert Wright, Alexander Reford, Ted Kesik, Chris Petersen, Peter Buchanan, Lise Anne Couture, Léa-Catherine Szacka, Karen Colby-Stothart, Anne Eschapasse, Cecelia Paine, Doris Chee, Jim Carter, Shelley Ambrose, D'Arcy Levesque, Patrick Schein, Charlie Fischer, Joanne Cuthbertson, Sarah McCallum, Joan Murray, Chelsea Spencer, Elise Hunchuck, Mano & Baldeep Duggal, Micol Soleri, Manuela Lucadazio
support
Canada Council for the Arts, RBC Foundation, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation, Ontario Association of Architects, Ryerson University, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture, The Walrus Foundation, Border Crossings, IGEA SpA, Gloria Irene Taylor, Barrick Gold, Verona Libri, The Nothern Miner, Canadian Architect, Azure, Graham Foundation, MIT Press, Air Canada Cargo
acknowledgements
A Tribe Called Red (Ian 'DJ NDN' Campeau, Tim '2oolman' Hill, Bear Witness), Pierre & Jannelle Lassonde, Peter McGovern, Jasmina Zurovac, Mohsen Mostafavi, Phyllis Lambert, Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, Nick de Pencier, Kelvin Dushnisky, Alanna Heath, Simon Brault, Sylvie Gilbert, Brigitte Desrochers, Sacha Hastings, Geneviève Vallerand, Brigitte Shim & Howard Sutcliffe, Bruce Kuwabara, Robert Enright, David D'Arcy, Toon Dressen, Robert Wright, Alexander Reford, Ted Kesik, Chris Petersen, Peter Buchanan, Lise Anne Couture, Léa-Catherine Szacka, Karen Colby-Stothart, Anne Eschapasse, Cecelia Paine, Doris Chee, Jim Carter, Shelley Ambrose, D'Arcy Levesque, Patrick Schein, Charlie Fischer, Joanne Cuthbertson, Sarah McCallum, Joan Murray, Chelsea Spencer, Elise Hunchuck, Mano & Baldeep Duggal, Micol Soleri, Manuela Lucadazio
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