Syncretic Art is the fusion of disparate elements; combining of some or any of:
visual arts: sculpture, painting, multi-media, soundsculpture, surround-sound audio, video;
music: voice, percussion and piano; performance: theatre and movement;
mythology, environment and contemporary archaeology.

LockDown

An exploration of incarceration and transformation:
*recent works* by Amanta Scott.

Featuring sculptures created with prison beds from Kingston Penitentiary for Women; door hardware, air vent diffusers, office dividers and other objects recycled from government buildings.

Initial works in this series were commissioned in 2004 as an art/recycling initiative utilising discarded materials provided by Public Works & Government Services Canada and Correctional Service of Canada.


Glove Forest

An interactive multi-media installation, addressing loss, our environment and accountability.

Glove Forest digital video collage
5 minute QuickTime video: 25.4 MB
projected on gallery wall or
shown on television monitor.

Glove Forest tour - Art Gallery of Algoma
50 second QuickTime video: 4.6 MB
(alt QuickTime video: 2.4 MB)
demonstrates the experience
of walking through the exhibition.


Arising Phoenix

Integrates the dramatic assembly of a sound sculpture installation with exciting percussion music played upon found objects, haunting vocalizations and movement.

Arising Phoenix
50 second Quick Time video
6 MB
or
3.15 MB


Tamashii no Kodama ~ Echoes of the Spirit

consists of thirty-six kimonos
constructed in four freestanding panels.


Dragon Tango

Two vibrantly colourful dragon sound sculptures: an eastern dragon and a western dragon; with dynamic drumming, sonorous bells and ethereal vocalizations.

Mixing the mysticism of the east with the mythology of the west Dragon Tango offers that rare opportunity for a leap of the imagination: a chance to see and touch "a real live dragon".

Dragon Tango : 22 MB
Gemini Award winning video; duration: 04:12:26

QuickTime video : 2.3 MB
30 second PSA


O Canada?!

An exploration of Canadian identity as seen through a map of Canada,
commissioned by the Canadian Trade Office in Taiwan.


Virago Project

Features four Goddess Sound Sculptures,
archetypal images of the multidimensional female.


SpiderWoman

Designed in the form of a giant spider web marking the four directions. SpiderWoman paralleled the Canadian Aboriginal spider-woman creation story with our present reshaping and potential destruction of the world.


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