Waterfall Intervention (collaboration with Kristin Demchuk)

Performance documentation presented as 2 sets of 36 colour slides with slide projector and automatic slide advancer. Variable dimensions. 2005.

Waterfall Intervention is a collaborative project which investigates the complex relationship between tourism and performance. The project consists of a series of slide photographs documenting a subtle intervention which the artists undertook together at Banff National Park's well-known tourist attraction, the waterfalls at Johnston's Canyon. This performance consisted of simulating the activities of tourists at the site in order to be inadvertently included in their holiday snapshots in front of the waterfalls. Scott would stand in common locations where photos were taken by tourists. When a group of people stood near him, he would edge his way toward them, surreptitiously entering the background in their photographs. As this was occurring, Kristin would photograph Scott, the other people and the waterfalls as well, capturing the entire slightly awkward spectacle.

We've never been able to exhibit or further develop Waterfall Intervention so the interesting potentials in the project haven't been fully realized. Something good to return to in the future I guess.