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Mirador, 2010

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Mirador is a two-channel video installation created for the exhibition Open Season: Intermigration & the Emergent Cultural Landscape at the Yukon Arts Centre, curated by the Trousseau Society featuring artists from the Yukon and Ontario.

“The one interlaced Yukon/Ontario artwork is Jenn E Norton's Mirador. It's a video installation that seduces with a lush soundscape of gentle, overlapping strings and electronica.

Two video streams show a constant flow of aerial footage. These are long shots of the landscapes between Whitehorse and Dawson, alternating with agricultural landscapes of Ontario.

Like the sounds, the landscapes are slowed down and blend into each other, which creates a sense of decadent dreaminess. Luxury, distraction and entertainment are words that come to mind when a cutout of an overstuffed armchair, and then a couch, float by in the videos' skies. We are armchair travellers for this landscape, which turns the wilderness into scenery instead of a land to know and live in.”

“Personal Migrations”, Meg Walker

Mirador, 2010 from Jenn E Norton on Vimeo.