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• Requiem for a Glacier: Mourning Climate Change

  One critique I have is of the inclusion of a black box which appears twice in the piece. During one section, the box begins in the centre of the screen, as seen in the above still, and...

• Savanna Harvey

  *Savanna Harvey* is a multidisciplinary creator. She is an organizer of secret midnight meetings, an instigator of resistance, and a recruiter of accomplices. As a creator-performer, she has toured...

• Requiem for a Glacier: Mourning Climate Change

  To draw attention to this issue, Victoria BC composer and artist Paul Walde created Requiem for a Glacier, a forty-minute video installation and sound performance currently on view at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Filmed on July 27, 2013, the...

• Requiem for a Glacier: Mourning Climate Change

  The text sung by the solo vocalist and chorus during the first two movements of the requiem are based on a Latin translation of a 2012 BC government press release that approved the construction of the year-round Jumbo Glacier Resort for skiing.⁵The last two...

• Requiem for a Glacier: Mourning Climate Change

  One of the first images in the video installation is of the chorus, shot from behind, being led by conductor Ajtony Csaba, music professor and symphony orchestra director at the University of Victoria. Everyone dressed in black to...

• Requiem for a Glacier: Mourning Climate Change

  The video installation moves back and forth between whole and split screens, an effective way of showing the terrain as the viewer gets to see the site and...

• Requiem for a Glacier: Mourning Climate Change

  Several times throughout the piece, the camera focuses upon the conductor. He stands alone, in the centre of the screen on an outcropping of rocks, facing the glacier in his tuxedo...

• Requiem for a Glacier: Mourning Climate Change

  In another section of the video installation, a woman attached to a safety rope, slowly and methodically walks across the glacier. She is singing with sheets of music in her hand, seemingly communing with, and offering homage to, the...

• Requiem for a Glacier: Mourning Climate Change

  The installation of Requiem for a Glacier at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is particularly effective. The twenty-two-foot-long screen takes up the entire wall of the gallery, reflecting the monumentality of the site. As...

• Requiem for a Glacier: Mourning Climate Change

  Another strength of the piece is the use of close-ups of the terrain of the glacier, many of which focus of the large rivulets of water flowing downward. In a number of shots, the...