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I’m linville Osborne I’m an artist who

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lives in Edmonton Alberta in Canada and

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I’ve been a practicing professional

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artist for most of my life

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installation art is very current in

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contemporary art galleries around the

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world in fact probably about eighty to

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ninety percent of the work that is shown

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worldwide falls into this category it

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doesn’t have the same limitations as

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showing a painting on a wall or a

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drawing on a wall or a free-standing

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sculpture it tends to combine a number

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of media together sometimes painting and

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sculpture can be together but it can

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also include things that once fell in

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the realm of performance art video it

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can have dance it can have performative

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aspects to it and the thing that I think

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makes it much more unusual than the work

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on the wall or the work on the floor is

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that it allows the artist to set up

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something in a very specific site and

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that site becomes a component of the

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world the width of the walls the height

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of the walls so sometimes the artists

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able to work on the floor from the

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ceiling for an allow space for the

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viewer to interact with the piece and

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sometimes the viewer is able to walk

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into the piece and almost have a

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dialogue with what happens very in very

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much the same way they do in in a

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real-life situation

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the name of this piece is archipelago

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and I created it in 2008 it’s taken me a

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whole year to complete this piece and it

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builds on some of my interests in

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looking at genetically modified seeds in

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this piece I really wanted to look in

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closely at the cell the cell being the

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fundamental structure of the plant and

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each one of these 16 shapes represents a

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cell and the cell is made up of a number

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of different components which make

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reference to things in science for

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example around the cell form I’ve

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created some sort of a DNA chain and

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inside that DNA chain I’ve placed

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various things in some cases that they

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look like dried seeds in other cases

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they look like the sort of scientific

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apparatus that might be used in our

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laboratory in examining DNA material or

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in making experimentation in genetically

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modified seeds I’ve also incorporated

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some floating shapes which are the

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pathogens which contaminate or are

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injected into the cell at the center of

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the piece I’ve placed a meandering River

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and for that I wanted to use the North

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Saskatchewan River which runs alongside

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my house here in Edmonton it meanders

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along it seems to be without end in the

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piece and on top of that River I’ve

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placed metaphorically some small gardens

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which represent the biodiversity of

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nature they’re like little snapshots

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of different places that we might see

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that relatively unordered I’m concerned

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number one about the fact that GMO

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altered food is not labeled so we don’t

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know what the health implications are

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because they’ve never been studied I’m

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also concerned about the lack of

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biodiversity because when the biotech

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industry has worked on these cells it

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shrinks the number of things available

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and a hundred varieties of corn turn

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into one variety of corn the other thing

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I’m very concerned about is the fact

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that this is not just something that’s

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happening in North America its impact

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because of the corporate biotech

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industry is worldwide

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I hope that when the public view this

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piece they have a chance to walk around

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it and explore it rather like someone

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exploring a riverbank peering in bending

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down looking closely at some of the

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components and trying to think for

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themselves what this might mean I know

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sometimes it’s hard for the public to

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quite understand what a work might be

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about but I think I’ve given enough

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clues particularly with the scientific

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apparatus and the suggestion of the DNA

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around the cells for people to sort of

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get some understanding that this is

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weird science I hope that people will

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start to think about the implications of

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the patenting of seeds the GMO

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alteration of our food products without

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labeling and to think about how our

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environment is being altered so

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radically and so quickly without really

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taking into account the fact that these

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new organisms will have completely

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different relationships with the

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environment I hope that people will see

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that our planet is threatened by this

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and that they can become more involved

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and more knowledgeable by asking what

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this means in their lives

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I want to thank you for your

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participation in viewing this work I

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hope that you’ve been able to get

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something out of it I’ve had a great

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time making it and I really enjoyed the

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experience not only in creating and

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producing the piece but in sharing it

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with you thank you very much up here

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comes the tractor

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you

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