I was delighted to be asked by Robert Chafe of Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland to write a piece of audio theatre for the Bonavista Biennale this year. Part of Artistic Fraud’s project Ephemera, my piece Seafoam responds to an earlier artwork from the 2017 Biennale - Will Gill’s The Green Chair. Visitors can download the Ephemera app for their phones and then listen to the audio on-site in Maberly, where The Green Chair was originally installed.
Ephemera site map, 2021.
From Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland: “A conversation with the past, and an invitation to listen. Five of Atlantic Canada’s finest writers engage with legendary Bonavista Biennale artworks that transformed our relationship to the landscape forever. These short audio pieces, available through free located-audio phone app, provide a beautiful and wholly original way of thinking about the physical impermanence, but lasting legacy, of art.”
The other four pieces in the series are written by Lisa Moore, George Murray, Sharon Bala and shalan joudry. Ephemera is free to hear until the end of the Biennale on September 12, 2021.
Please note that cell reception is patchy throughout the Bonavista Peninsula, so you are advised to download the app and site map to your phone before you visit. The app will work even if you can’t get cell reception on-site. Headphones are recommended.