Barnacle City
Barnacle City
By Laiwan
Image shows a detail of Barnacle City by Laiwan.
Barnacle City projects imaginative possibilities of a future city, or perhaps a city that once was, in which natural accretions are anchored among man-made structures. Click on the QR code to view a short film of this exceptional place. Where is this science-fiction inspired city? You will recognize Vancouver ‘s cityscape dramatically altered by this utopian (or dystopian?) vision, alive with ocean forms.
Laiwan is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator with a practice based in poetics and philosophy. She exhibits regularly and curates projects in Canada, USA, and Zimbabwe and teaches in the masters in Interdisciplinary Arts Program at Goddard College in Washington State, USA. She holds a MFA from Simon Fraser University.
This artwork was commissioned by the City of Vancouver Public Art Program for Platforms: Coastal City
