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La Mesa Watershed, Philippines
Everything seems to disappear into the golden light and the smog as the sun gets closer to the horizon. The La Mesa watershed, which can be seen from the summit of Mt. Parawagan, Montalban, is an important source of water for the residents for a lot of cities and towns in this area.
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Plus catalogues the last 8 years, each of the works realized with WATERSHED+ and the artists and teams involved. Alongside this documentation we invited six prominent arts voices – a combination of artists, curators, writers and editors - to explore a topic and to complement the narrative of the program, projects, and process from their experiences. These art subject matter experts bring knowledge about contemporary art, urban and cultural development, and insights into creative processes. Plus also outlines the less tangible outcomes and provides recommendations for the future of the program.
“We have always struggled with trying to define WATERSHED+ – it’s a plan, a program, an artwork. It is processed-based work, with temporary and permanent work. It is performance and collaborative. It is artist-lead, municipal, internally and externally focused; it is engaging, informing, educational. It is engineering. It is art. It is serious, critical, joyous, challenging, and celebratory. […]
It’s all of these things, it’s blurry. ”
“[…] This is the story of the first phase of WATERSHED+. It catalogues projects, who was involved and the outcomes. It contains people’s opinions and experiences from many points of view: engineers, artists, managers, and critics – many of whom helped shape the program it has become. ”
FromPlus, Introduction
WATERSHED+ is a City of Calgary public art project
Essays by:
Tatiana Mellema, Hesse McGraw, Diana Sherlock, Susan Szenasy, Shauna Thompson and Janet Zweig
Interviews of staffs and artists by amery Calvelli
Plus Graphic artist: Mustaali Raj
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