Adrian A Stimson and Faye HeavyShield on Yoko Ono's WATER EVENT.

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Yoko Ono, "Water Event," 2020

Join us November 18 at 7pm and December 3 for two artist talks with Adrian A Stimson and Faye HeavyShield on Yoko Ono's WATER EVENT.

These in-person, seated events are limited to 40 guests. The following health and safety measures are enforced and include; assigned socially distanced seating in alternating rows, face masks, and hand sanitizer. 

Free with $10 admission, includes early and late access to the exhibitions. Free for members of CC.

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Adrian A. Stimson, 2020

ARTIST TALK | Adrian A Stimson

November 5, 2020 - Postponed

Doors Open: 6:00pm

Remarks + Artist Talk:  7:00pm

Viewing Continues: until 9:00pm

Adrian A Stimson discusses his work We’ve made our Water Bed..., a water sculpture made in response to Yoko Ono’s invitation to produce a container that held water. The work is one of six water sculptures produced for Ono’s ongoing collaborative work, WATER EVENT (1971/ 2020), part of Ono’s exhibition GROWING FREEDOM at Contemporary Calgary.

Stimson offers the waterbed to Premier Jason Kenney UCP, Alberta, who has been cited in a number of studies as being one of Canada’s biggest polluters of water, owed primarily to the industries of oil and agriculture in Alberta. Jason Kenney comes from a long list of politicians in Alberta and Canada who enact legislation that often are detrimental to the environment, specifically the water we all rely on. 

The waterbed is at once a comment on the tongue-in-cheek expression, ‘You made your bed, now lie in it’ and also a nod to Yoko Ono and John Lennon’s historic BED-IN FOR PEACE. The bed is a place of protest and love.

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Faye Heavyshield, 2020

ARTIST TALK | Faye HeavyShield

December 3, 2020

Doors Open: 6:00pm

Remarks + Artist Talk:  7:00pm

Viewing Continues: until 9:00pm

Faye HeavyShield discusses her work aohkii/water, a water sculpture made in response to Yoko Ono’s invitation to produce a container that held water. The work is one of six water sculptures produced for Ono’s ongoing collaborative work, WATER EVENT (1971/ 2020), part of Ono’s exhibition GROWING FREEDOM at Contemporary Calgary.

Faye’s water sculpture comprises a glass bowl collaged on the outside with images of Oldman River, filled with river stones and water. It is a work that honours the rivers; especially the aptly named Old Man. Faye explains, “This is a reflection of our place .. meaning our responsibility. It is a reflection on the fragility and the strength of rivers (and of us)”.