Veins
Veins
By Langara students
Veins
Most major cities across the world enjoy public transit systems with varying degrees of integration into their cities make-up. Some have simple above ground bus routes whilst others have fully formed subways or railcar lines built into the structures that hold the city together. These systems are constructed by machines of human design, which impart an efficient and simple quality of structure made from industrially manufactured materials.
As a group of artists, Apocalectyve attempts to combat this seemingly obvious fact of austere architecture in the modern age. Even though our cities, subways, streets, and sewers are made of concrete and steel, they are a conception of living breathing organic human beings. The city of Vancouver is our body, our shell with which us city goers find convenience and comfort in. Our arteries, veins, and capillaries; our Transit System, allows each of us red blooded ‘cells’ to flow through our grand ‘body’ of a city. This is what our piece titled, “Veins,” attempts to address: Vancouver as the grand organism, made up of much smaller ones going about their days, unaware of the sum they inhabit. The city is as alive as it’s individual, but nothing is alive without movement.
