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THE C T ZEN THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2006. PAGE 23.
Leisure Entertainment
Artist to appear on Bravo
On Bravo
Hometown girl Janet Cardiff and her husband George Bures
Miller are the subject of a documentary to be shown on
Bravo Sunday, April 9. Walk with Us is written and directed
by award-winner Wiebe von Carolsfield, and explores the
artists' work and the process involved in creating it. Cardiff
and Miller were the first Canadians to win a major award at
the Venice Biennale, which they did in 2001 for their audio-
visual Paradise Institute. Cardiff is the daughter of Jack and
Audrey Cardiff of Brussels. (Photo submitted)
By Bonnie Gropp
Citizen editor
From the quiet country life
growing up outside Brussels to
creating sound-based art, Janet
Cardiff has achieved a dream.
An internationally-acclaimed
artist, Cardiff, daughter of Jack and
Audrey, along with her
husband/collaborator George Bures
Miller, is the subject of a one-hour
documentary to be aired on Bravo
Sunday, April 9.
Walk With Us: The Collaborative
Works of Janet Cardiff and George
Bures Miller, is written and directed
by Wiebe von Carolsfield, winner of
the City TV award for best first,
feature at the Toronto International
Film Festival for Marion Bridge.
Walk With Us explores the couple's
work and the process involved in
creating it.
The production had its world film
debut at the 2006 Canadian Art Film
Series on Feb. 24 at the Al Green
Theatre in Toronto. In attendance
were Cardiff's parents, her brother
Stuart and his family, sister
Catherine and her husband, and
cousin Murray, as well as many
well-known members of the art
community.
"The theatre was filled to capacity,
then refilled a second time for those
who couldn't get in for the first
showing," said Cardiff's father.
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Cardiff, who studied at Queen's
University in Kingston and the
University of Alberta, and Miller
first gained recognition for their
audio walks, unique installation
pieces in which audiences become a
participant rather than an observor.
In 2001 they did their country proud
by becoming the first Canadians to
win a major prize at the Venice
Biennale for their audio-visual
installation Paradise Institute.
Walk With Us talks to the artists in
their Okanogan Valley home, a place
that allows them live quietly and
separate themselves from the art
world from time to time. The
couple also spends part of their time
in Berlin.
The documentary offers insight
into how Cardiff and Miller create
their work, including the beautiful
40Part Motet. The music has 40
parts, with each coming from a
separate speaker. These were placed
around a room, requiring
engineering to strike the appropriate
balance and impact for the listener.
The documentary includes
reactions from participants who took
the 'video-walk' created for Berlin's
Hebbel Theatre, and shows the
painstaking detail that went into
their 2005 Pandemonium done in a
crumbling old penitentiary in
Philadelphia.
The documentary does a
remarkable job of intriguing the
viewer, while opening the door to
understanding the couple's theatre-
based work.
It even broadened understanding
for those who know her well.
"We keep up on what she's doing,
of course," said her father. "But there
were lots of things I never realized
before, of what they had to go
through to do what they do. That was
of interest to me."
Author
visits
school
Students at Grey Central Public
School had the opportunity to learn
from published author, literacy
facilitator, poet, and storyteller
Patrick Douglas of the Chatham-
Kent area.
Douglas serves 35 schools each
year and on March 21 and 22 he
visited students from JK to Grade 8
to give advice on writing and
encourage students to express
'themselves through storytelling and
the written word.
"Students need to know they have
the right and freedom to apply the
curriculum writing skills they are
learning at school to their own,
interests," he said.
Students had the opportunity to
practise their skills by writing a
poem or story and then sharing their
work with their peers.
"The more sharing that happens
in a class or school, the more
positive will be student attitudes to
writing," Douglas said.
He returned to the school on
Wednesday night to give a
presentation for parents.
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Patrick Douglas, an author and literacy facilitator from
Chatham-Kent, visited Grey Central Public School on
Tuesday, March 21 and Wednesday, March 22. Douglas
made a presentation on Wednesday during Parent's Night
as well. (Heather Crawford photo)
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