Happy Birthday Canada, Many Happy Returns: the Self-Obsoleting, Ancient Recycling Machine, the Antidiluvian Ecosophic Organism the Calgary Centennial Planetarium, 2017
A series of murals and a free poster that highlight the local discourse and potential future of the Centennial Planetarium,Calgary – opened in 1967.
The murals and poster offer a fantasy-like proposal of what it might now become by using alternative energy and bio-systems as a lens through which the building could be viewed.
The murals were ceremonially “unveiled” at the opening of the exhibition where Contemporary Calgary's director Pierre Arpin reenacted the original opening ceremony of the Planetarium where the then mayor in 1967 swung a ball and chain through a paper covered doorway that said “Happy Birthday Canada. Many Happy Returns” on a brickwork design.
A series of murals and a free poster that highlight the local discourse and potential future of the Centennial Planetarium,Calgary – opened in 1967.
The murals and poster offer a fantasy-like proposal of what it might now become by using alternative energy and bio-systems as a lens through which the building could be viewed.
The murals were ceremonially “unveiled” at the opening of the exhibition where Contemporary Calgary's director Pierre Arpin reenacted the original opening ceremony of the Planetarium where the then mayor in 1967 swung a ball and chain through a paper covered doorway that said “Happy Birthday Canada. Many Happy Returns” on a brickwork design.