KC Wilcox

“Memory Support” is a media installation that explores preserving nature by preserving memory. This work speaks to our attitudes towards overcoming nature by drawing attention to the boundary between technological memory and physical memory. I’m interested in the potential of using records as an intervention, in this case, intervening in the loss of an uprooted century tree. The installation assembles electronic tools for making and keeping records (digital photography, computer memory storage, and printing) as a way to remember a dead tree and its physical presence. The installation reproduces an image of the tree’s body (a complete vertical section of its bark) to scale on paper once a day. While the tree decomposes in the forest, the record will exist potentially forever on thin sheets made from the pulp of wood. 

Proposed for ‘Depository Park’ — a collaborative group exhibition organized by D’Arcy Wilson with Connexion ARC, presented at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery (Fredericton, 2018). The works on display responded to Odell Park, a site that encompasses 175 hectares of old growth Acadian Forest in the heart of the City of Fredericton, and explores archives and parks as sites for preservation.