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Glyde Hall Canyon, Installation Documentation 1:46 min, 2026 | YouTube

Main filming and editing: Georgie Friedman | Secondary video and audio: Banff Centre

INSTALLATION LOCATION

Glyde Hall, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain

Treaty 7 Territory, Banff, Alberta, Canada


*INSTALLATION FILMING LOCATIONS

  1. •Banff National Park, Alberta: Mistaya Canyon, Johnston Canyon

  2. •Jasper National Park, Alberta: Tangle Creek Falls

  3. •Kootenay National Park, British Columbia: Marble Canyon 

  4. •Yoho National Park, British Columbia: Natural Bridge


Banff and Jasper Nation Parks are within the present-day territories of the Treaty 6, 7, and 8, First Nations, including the Stoney Nakoda comprised of the Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Goodstoney Nations; Tsuut’ina First Nation and the Blackfoot Confederacy comprised of the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai; Anishinabe, Aseniwuche Winewak, Dene-zaa, Nêhiyawak, Secwépemc, Métis, the Shuswap Nations, and Ktunaxa Nations.


Kootenay and Yoho National Parks are in the traditional and unceded territories of the Ktunaxa and Secwépemc First Nations.


I thank and acknowledge the water, rock, and land I filmed for this piece, and the people of past, present, and future generations who steward this land.

 

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Two-channel site-specific video installation

Glyde Hall, Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada

Projection area: 20' 4" x 30' 5" x 17' (H x W x D)

5 minute continuous loop (silent)

2026

Created during the Nomadism Artist Residency

Visual Arts Program, Banff Centre

May - June, 2026


ABOUT

During my residency at the Banff Centre I was researching and filming the movements of glacial watershed systems including direct glacial run-off; glacial lakes; tributaries; rivers; waterfalls; and canyons, concentrating on how they shaped the land in deep-time and this moment.


For Glyde Hall Canyon, I combined rivers and creeks from five different locations* on both sides of the Continental Divide. Instead of the rivers flowing West/East away from each other, in this installation they flow into each other via the multiple levels of the stairwell.


Equating Glyde Hall's cement to the ancient marine sedimentary rock of the area, I wanted to let the power of the glacial waters visually carve up the built vertical space, as it does when encountering layers of the land.