Khortitsa Oak | Sound Installation @ MCC Ontario
1 sound
LOCATION | MCC ONTARIO (50 Kent Ave Unit 203, Kitchener, ON, N2G 3R1)
ARTIST TEXT | You can get a print of Kandis Friesen's artist essay at the front desk entrance, or download the PDF here (link forthcoming).
INFORMATION | This oak tree was grown from an acorn of the Khortitsa oak in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. Installed around it is a sound recording made at its base, on a late April morning in 2023. Listening to the sound recording will be much more immersive with headphones on, as the recording is ambient and full of bird song and sounds of daily life in the suburb of Khortitsa, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
LOCATION | From the entrance on Kent Ave, head straight to the back of the building, and curve left. To your right is a barn-like shed, and to your left is a small landscaped area: the very young Khortitsa oak is planted here. It’s about 1 metre tall. You can sit on the stone ledge, or even in the grass on the other side of the parking lot, next to the bike path.
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ACCESSIBILITY
- There is a short stone wall right beside the tree that you can sit on, or you can listen along the green area next to the bike path.
- The tree is in a small garden area along the parking lot road, so one can access the road with a wheelchair, but it’s a throughway; the circle for this recording is quite wide, so that the sound can be accessed from the area around the bike path along Stirling Ave, the green area by the bike path, and anywhere in the parking lot and within the MCC building.
- There is an accessible washroom, accessed via the Thrift Store (open 10am-5pm weekdays and Saturday)
