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Big Rock Candy Mountain

Helen Reed & Hannah Jickling have been collaborating since 2007 and are currently based in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territories. Through an interest in unconventional contexts, their projects prioritize collaborative research, elaborate antics and a critical commitment to ways in which artworks are transmitted amongst publics. Their works take shape as installations, social situations, and events that then circulate as photographs, videos, printed matter, and multiples. Reed and Jickling were longlisted for the Sobey Art Award in 2018 and are recipients of a 2017 Mayor’s Arts Award for Public Art (City of Vancouver) and the 2018 VIVA Award (Shadbolt Foundation).

Exhibitions

  • ARD Proximities

    BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN, STEFFANIE LING, STEVE HUBERT, CHARMAINE LEE, DASHES, BARBARA LAZARA, CHRISTINA BATTLE, RAVEN CHACON, SYDNEY HERMANT, SAMANTHA NOCK, LINDSAY MCKINNAN, MELISSA ANDREWS, DAVIDE BALULA, KAITLYN PURCELL
    June 23–August 11, 2020

    Tuesdays, 9–10pm
    Vancouver Co-op Radio, CFRO 100.5FM
    coopradio.org

    While staff have been working remotely, we wanted to find ways to remain connected to the neighbourhood and communities surrounding Artspeak. With the temporary closure of the gallery, we’ve decided to renew a feature of Artspeak’s programming of the past years: radio broadcasting. We’re excited to continue to work with Vancouver Co-Op Radio, for another edition of Artspeak Radio Digest. Located a couple of blocks from Artspeak, Vancouver Co-op Radio is a community radio station that has been based in the Downtown Eastside since 1973. In Fall 2018 Artspeak Radio Digest was collectively run by Brady Cranfield, Gabi Dao, Emma Metcalfe-Hurst, Autumn Schnell, with support from myself and Erik Hood.

    As an audio journal, Artspeak Radio Digest is an expanded approach to our publishing program. In the true form of a digest, over the next several weeks of the PROXIMITIES EDITION, we will be hosting many exceptional artists, writers, arts workers and musicians. All of who maintain an interdisciplinary practice and work with sound, voice, publishing, and writing.

    For the duration of PROXIMITIES – we’re very excited to be introducing – Hannah Jickling and Helen Reed of Big Rock Candy Mountain who will be our resident guests on the show presenting Bubble Broadcast. Each week they will be sharing their research as part of their Sleepy Soda project, which will develop a special edition of soda with grade 6 students in Edmonton, Alberta.

    As the goal posts keep shifting, and it’s difficult to know when we can gather in ways that feel familiar, we hope to share with you via Artspeak Radio Digest a series that will allow us to share space together in auditory proximity.

Publications