Covering Up has been an open invitation for people to make interventions on the Vancouver skyline. In the midst of the disruption and non-transparency that is part of public life in a city preparing for Olympic games, this project has produced momentary gestures of resistance and local distraction. Using household linen and bedding, artists Lois Klassen and Pierre-André Sonolet have involved others to impose the personal on a rapidly changing urban landscape. In absurd mimicry, domestic fabrics have refused for a moment all of the policies and development that have hidden unresolved social problems and misspent public resources.
You are invited to participate by using household linen to stage your own cover ups. Send documentation of your action to coveringup@gmail.com. Or follow CU on facebook.
Video and photo documentation of these informal and organized cover ups will be projected back onto the street during the Bright Lights Festival on February 19 using the windows of Centre A. Inside Centre A (2 West Hastings Street), the on-going "World Tea Party" and Covering Up will host "Masque Tea": cover up with a mask of your own or one provided. Everyone is invited to tea on Feb 19 (7-10pm)!
