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Kingston, ON – Thursday, Oct. 30 marks the opening of , an art exhibition and initiative of the The exhibition brings artworks produced in and about the site’s changing landscape into dialogue with the space and collections of the Queen’s University Miller Museum of Geology.

The exhibition was developed by Dorit Naaman (Film and Media), Laura Murray (Department of English Literature and Creative Writing), and PhD student (SCCS), architect, and artist, Noah Scheinman. An ongoing exploration of the cultural and environmental histories of the former wetland, landfill, and golf course known as Belle Park, the exhibition was developed in collaboration with the Miller Museum of Geology and the Department of Geology and Geological Sciences at Queen’s University.

Situating local history within broader planetary frameworks, Working Ground invites reflection on how landscapes are made, altered, and represented across various overlapping practices and timescales: geological, ecological, cultural, economic, and experiential. In art and in the museum, in the landfill and in resource extraction, ground is worked: worked on, worked with, worked over, and worked through. Both materially and conceptually, the ground grounds the exhibition.

Funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Belle Park Project is a Research-Creation project which draws from many disciplinary and community knowledges and is focused on developing and sharing high quality research and art.

When: Opening, Thursday, Oct. 30, 5-6 pm
Symposium, Saturday, Nov. 22, 1:30-4:30 pm

Who: Dorit Naaman and Laura Murray will be available for media interviews during the event. Pre- and post-event interviews on the project can also be arranged.

Where: Miller Museum of Geology on the Queen’s University campus.

Contact:
Julie Brown, Manager, Media Relations
brown.julie@queensu.ca
343-363-2763