installation, 2024
dredge11[redux] is a reactivation and reworking of dredge11[retrograde], now responding to the catastrophic leach pad failure at Eagle Gold Mine, which released millions of liters of cyanide solution, contaminating the Yukon environment. The two interactive video installations focus on Dredge #11 — a monumental gold-mining machine that once shaped the landscape, leaving behind vast tailings piles and altered terrain.
This piece is a continuously evolving collage that combines aerial footage of the dredge and surrounding tailings piles with 16mm celluloid film scans. These scans are phytogrammed and developed using plant matter gathered from the area around the dredge site. Viewers disrupt the piece through digital interaction, inspired by the photographic process of Mordançage, where acidic solutions lift emulsion from film, revealing both fragility and resilience.
This piece invites viewers into a navigable, interactive particle system derived from a 3D scan ofthe dredge’s interior and exterior.As viewers engage,the dredge becomes a dynamic entity —its structure fragmenting and reconfiguring with each interaction. Accompanied by a soundtrack of generative modular synths and field recordings from within the dredge,the piece immerses viewers in a space of both decay and creation.
Together,these works explore the destructive impact of mineral extraction on the Yukon landscape while presenting the potentialforreclamation. Yet, this reclamation remains uncertain—fragile, even—as the future unfolds ambiguously.