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13

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Contributor

Kate Hennessy

Creator

Kate Hennessy

Date

September, 2009

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Video still

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JPG

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LeeBuilding_HennessyNeumann_2009_1.jpg

Rights

All rights reserved, Kate Hennessy and Oliver Neumann

Media on the City: The Lee Building

Media on the City – The Lee Building is a video projection that documents the dismantling of a billboard and its steel substructure on the top of Vancouver’s landmarked Lee Building over a period of four months. Constructed in 1912, the Lee Building is known as Vancouver’s first “skyscraper,” and still stands out prominently against the downtown skyline. The billboard was erected in the 1950’s, and is commonly assumed to interfere with the view of Vancouver’s downtown and mountains from residential buildings recently constructed in the area. The recent deconstruction of the advertising sign follows the loss of a decade-long...

Ethnographic Terminalia: Philadelphia

Ethnographic Terminalia first exhibition was a group exhibition of installation works that showed at the Ice Box gallery(Crane Arts, Philadelphia) in December 2009. The Ice Box is billed as one of Philadelphia’s largest art venues.