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It’s All Happening So Fast: A Counter-History of the Modern Canadian Environment. Installation view, 2016
It’s All Happening So Fast: A Counter-History of the Modern Canadian Environment. Installation view, 2016
Installation view of It’s All Happening So Fast: A Counter-History of the Modern Canadian Environment, showing a selection of the continuation of Slogans for the Twenty-First Century that Douglas Coupland created for the exhibition
It’s All Happening So Fast: A Counter-History of the Modern Canadian Environment. Installation view, 2016
It’s All Happening So Fast: A Counter-History of the Modern Canadian Environment. Installation view, 2016
It’s All Happening So Fast: A Counter-History of the Modern Canadian Environment. Installation view, 2016
It’s All Happening So Fast: A Counter-History of the Modern Canadian Environment. Installation view, 2016
It’s All Happening So Fast: A Counter-History of the Modern Canadian Environment. Installation view, 2016
It’s All Happening So Fast: A Counter-History of the Modern Canadian Environment. Installation view, 2016
It’s All Happening So Fast: A Counter-History of the Modern Canadian Environment. Installation view, 2016
It’s All Happening So Fast: A Counter-History of the Modern Canadian Environment. Installation view, 2016
It’s All Happening So Fast: A Counter-History of the Modern Canadian Environment. Installation view, 2016
In an age of unprecedented human impact on the planet, certain countries stand out for their privileged positions and the complexity of their relationships with the land. Stories about Canada closely follow the discovery and appropriation of vast and varied natural resources as well as changing ideas of the proper relationship between people and their environment.
Presenting case studies from the last five decades of human intervention in the Canadian landscape, It’s All Happening So Fast explores Canadians’ often conflicted and conflicting views of what we call the “natural” environment. Among the materials included are selections from CCA, Library and Archives Canada, McCord Museum, Arkitektur- och Designcentrum Stockholm, and works by Douglas Coupland.
Curator: Mirko Zardini, CCA
Curatorial team: Vanessa Abram, Lev Bratishenko, Louise Désy, and Anna Renken, CCA
Exhibition design: Kuehn Malvezzi, Berlin
Graphic design: Pitis e Associati, Milan and Paris
Selected objects
Ralph Erskine. Perspective sketch for a prototype Arctic walled city later developed for Resolute Bay, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut), in a period of increasing resource exploration, 1958. 59 × 41.5 cm. Arkitektur- och designcentrum (Stockholm) ARKM.1986-17-0362
Grant Tigner, painter. Seagrams Limited, publisher. The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project, in The St. Lawrence Seaway: The Realization of a Mighty Dream, 1954. ID PO7903 TC427.S3 CAN; ID:88-B12931
William Notman & Son. Bow River and Twin Peaks, Banff, Alberta, 1889. 18.6 × 25.6 cm. CCA PH1980:1223
The Sudbury area is one of the world’s richest nickel deposits, and it was so devastated by smelting emissions that in the 1960s NASA used it as lunar training grounds for astronauts. Postcard showing the Superstack in Sudbury, Ontario, n.d. 10 × 15 cm. University of Waterloo Library, Special Collections & Archives, Canadian Coalition on Acid Rain fonds
Peter von Tiesenhausen. The Lifeline, a copyrighted artwork extended every year to continue blocking oil pipeline proposals, c. 1992
Douglas Coupland, from the series Slogans for the Twenty-First Century
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