Wilson Chik Wai Chi

WILSON CHIK WAI CHI is a movement explorer based in Hong Kong. His experience comes from mystical traditions, Butoh, fitness & integrative well being, dreams and visual arts. His simple approach to life is to balance the act of doing and being. His move-ment work has been in international fringe festivals, cross cultural exchanges and solo & choreographed productions. Furthermore, Wilson is one of the co-founders of Meli-Melo Limited, living arts company whose main focus is to encourage and support individuals in pursuit of their ideas through creative channels like ART JAM, mixed media presentations, exhibitions, theatre and performance as well as workshops for the community and corporations. "If a pine tree in nature stands in his own radiance and be nothing more than a pine tree, then how could human with a higher consciousness not see his true nature and accept?"

Ellen Dijkstra

Ellen Dijkstra's "Extraterrestrial" installation is humorous, yet sensitive to the landscape, and makes a very fine-drawn statement about our presence in the landscape. In her work, process and material are important connectors to the content of the work.

Janice Pomer & Barry Prophet

Lyla Rye

"Landscape, often regarded as the materialization of memory, fixes individual and social histories in place. Lyla Rye's installation, Locus, taps into one individual's memory (a local farmer's) and personal memory (Rye's). She started out with a Juniper bush, located in a meadow that slopes down to the lake, with Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's fairy tale "The Juniper Tree" in mind. As often happens the original idea evolved and changed. Retaining the site, with the Juniper bush, Rye eventually discarded the fairy tale, while holding on to its central theme: regeneration. One approaches Locus along a rising pathway cut through the meadow. First you see the Juniper, then the ring of black rubber, with text, which circles the Juniper. You must walk around the bush to read the text. This action is reminiscent of many sacred sites where circumambulation is part of the experience. Locus, explores, not mythical or mystical memory, but the recent history of the land: the farmer's tale (whose land is adjacent to the Tree Museum) of tent caterpillars, of frogs dying, and returning when DDT is outlawed; and Lyla's childhood memories of Muskoka. Locus is a tale/memory of continuity and discontinuity, of the renewal of the land and our role in that progress. The Juniper, one of the hardiest of trees, plays a central role in the relationship between place/landscape and memory." Anne O'Callaghan