Lucius’ Garden, 2015

6 performers, 4 channel audio, 1 video projection
approx. 30 minutes

Lucius’ Garden is a performance for the public garden beside the Lucius Oille fountain in downtown St. Catharines. The fountain was a gift marking the completion of the first waterworks for the city, at DeCew Falls. See images of the DeCew Falls Water Treatment Plant in the tiny, moving video projection of the Waterworks Duet, share water with the Gardeners, and listen to the Nanfan Treaty of 1701, first Waterworks Commission Annual Report of 1879, a Mohawk Water Song, water sounds, and original text.

In The Soil Arts Festival, St. Catharines, April 24 and 25, 2015

Performers: Maja Bannerman, Elizabeth Chitty, Alexander Franks, Berenicci Hershorn, Angela Hines, Elaina Jones
Audio recording and editing: Elizabeth Chitty, Joe Lapinski
Illuminated watering cans: Chris Clifford
Translation of the Nanfan Treaty spoken in Mohawk by Tehahenteh
Text and Video: Elizabeth Chitty

Images: screen captures from video by Vickie Fagan