Public Service Announcement

Site Specific Project by William Robinson in Point Pleasant

Thursday, August 11, 2011 - The Halifax Regional Municipality is pleased to present Parchetypes, a site-specific performance created by William Robinson for Point Pleasant Park. This project is supported through HRM Cultural Affairs’ Open Projects program.

Robinson explains that Parchetypes is based on two real-life personalities who define the experience of attending Point Pleasant Park through their musical performances. These two parchetypes, or fathers of the park, use this extraordinary urban forest in order to nurture the park’s natural elements and entertain park-goers with their musical expressions. The project pays tribute to these park personalities, as well as references performance artist Yoko Ono.
From Monday to Monday, August 15-22, an old upright piano will be installed in a secluded area in the park. Robinson and other commissioned artists, including Sageev Oore, Rich Aucoin, Robert Drisdelle, and Tim Crofts, will perform the instrument daily from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. As well, in early dawn, and intermittently throughout the day, Robinson will perform the piano. A bag piper will mark the beginning and end of this component of the project.

During the second phase of the project, from Monday, September 5, to Sunday, September 11, Robinson will act as the park’s gatekeeper and share the recorded sounds from a mixed tape of week one’s performances on a portable cassette player.

Future artists to be profiled are Dustin Harvey, Zachary Gough and Lisa Lipton.

For more information about Parchetypes including performance details and the artist’s blog visit: http://parchetypes.blogspot.com/

For more information about Open Projects, visit:
http://www.halifax.ca/Culture/PublicArt/openprojects.html

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Contact:

Heather MacLeod
HRM Public & Community Art
490-5912
macleoh@halifax.ca