New Jerusalem
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84442
Description: Image courtesy the artist and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
A floating city/landscape collaged from the deconstructed covers of over 1000 1950’s-80’s science-fiction paperbacks.
Measurements: 182.88 x 182.88 cm
Collection: Ivey School of Business, University of Toronto
Date Made: 2010-2012
Materials: Collaged book covers mounted on black linen
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Work by Jason de Haan
Pie Powder
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84438
Description: Installation view, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge.
Image courtesy the artist and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
From a corruption of the French ‘Pied Poudre’ (dusty feet), Pie Powder suggests a wandering. A stand-up piano was placed in a nondescript plot of land with a number of horses for 763 days. The project was dependent on the animals’ curiosity to determine its course. The Piano remains as evidence.
Pie Powder is based upon a relationship developed with a century old piano in Dawson City, Yukon. Over the course of two months of regular listening to this specific instrument an association with its worn and yellowed ivory keys and aged horses teeth was crystallized. The piano was seen as eating through players, music and time. This association was subsequently manifested by placing a stand-up piano in field of horses that slowly ate away its body. Two years later an opportunity to produce an exhibition in Dawson allowed for the horse-eaten piano to travel from Edmonton to the Yukon, mimicking the route of the original, and existed for a time as a reflection, a sibling.
Measurements: variable
Collection: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Date Made: 2010
Materials: Weathered piano
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Pie Powder
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84439
Description: Image courtesy the artist and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
Measurements: variable
Collection: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Date Made: 2010
Materials: Weathered piano
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
New Jerusalem
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84442
Description: Image courtesy the artist and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
A floating city/landscape collaged from the deconstructed covers of over 1000 1950’s-80’s science-fiction paperbacks.
Measurements: 182.88 x 182.88 cm
Collection: Ivey School of Business, University of Toronto
Date Made: 2010-2012
Materials: Collaged book covers mounted on black linen
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
New Jerusalem (detail)
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84443
Description: Image courtesy the artist and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
Measurements: 182.88 x 182.88 cm
Collection: Ivey School of Business, University of Toronto
Date Made: 2010-2012
Materials: Collaged book covers mounted on black linen
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
The Wood and Wave Each Other Know (with Miruna Dragan)
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84440
Description: Installation view, the Khyber ICA, Halifax, Canada.
Image courtesy the artists and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
Daniel Bosch is a wildfire lookout in Northern Alberta, Canada. Every day, from April to October, he looks out upon the treetops from the eight by eight foot cabin of the tallest tower in the province. Dan is also a self-taught musician. While living in the woods, he crafted a cello from a solid block of spruce and then taught himself to play it. Because the cello was too big to fit in the cage of the tower’s one hundred and twenty vertical steps, Dan made a body-less version, allowing him to practice during his many hours inside the tower’s cabin. By wedging the practice cello between the edge of a small worktable and the cabin’s fiberglass octagonal cupola, Dan discovered that he could more than compensate for the instrument’s lack of a body. The cabin itself becomes the resonant chamber and the tower becomes the instrument within which the cellist plays. Now, the lookout tower broadcasts Dan’s music into the immensity of the landscape and the trees become his audience. The Wood and Wave Each Other Know is a video work documenting this activity; the camera constantly pans 360 degrees out of the cupola’s windows, while Dan plays a number of improvised compositions. A bookwork containing peripheral images accompanies the video.
Measurements: variable
Collection:
Date Made: 2011
Materials: HD Video, 38 min. (looping)
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Cannon Ball
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84437
Description: Image courtesy the artist and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
Measurements: 3 3/4" sphere
Collection: Royal Bank of Canada
Date Made: 2012
Materials: One coin from each of the World’s active currencies melted to form a small sphere
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Or The Whale (Reykjavik)
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84441
Description: Image courtesy the artist and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
One image in a series of thirty that document the reading Moby Dick Upside-down and Backwards, near various large bodies of water, over the course of six years.
Measurements: 83.82 x 121.92 cm / 212.9028 x 309.6768 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2014
Materials: Archival inkjet print
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Shroud
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84453
Description: Installation view of the exhibition 'Oh, for eyes! At night we dream of eyes!' at the Esker Foundation, Calgary.
The fourth of nine mineral growths on pre-existing figurative sculptures.
Measurements: 48.26 x 40.64 x 50.8 cm
Collection: private
Date Made: 2014
Materials: Salt on found plaster bust
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Grey to Pink
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84444
Description: Installation view from the exhibition 'Grey to Pink' at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton.
Image courtesy the artist and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
In this series, a range of found fossilized shells (clam, brachiopod, turtle & tortoise) rest in various configurations on a range of commercially available humidifiers. In each instance vapor caresses the form of the fossil(s) and, through assisted erosion, carries mineral particles of the once-living form into the exhibition space. A new atmosphere is generated in which fossil particles can be inhaled and carried away in the lungs; a body within the body. Given time, one may witness the fossil slowly (and even completely) disappearing. From the moment any of these are first turned on, a unique and unpredictable signature begins to unfold: several of the fossils, depending upon the geological conditions of their initial formation, may not reveal wear for years, while others begin to visibly disintegrate within days, if not hours. The fossil, a seemingly permanent object—having maintained its current form for many millions of years—takes on a new material life, artificially re-introduced into a state of flux; no longer static and inert, its form enters a new, transformative time-scale. As a matrix these works can be seen to operate as the complex mechanizations of a larger clock, counting down to the eventual disappearance of even the most stubborn of vestiges.
Measurements: variable
Collection:
Date Made: 2016
Materials: Various fossils, humidifiers, water
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Swallow All The Brains
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84449
Description: Installation view from the exhibition 'Swallow All The Brains' at de Fabriek, Eindhoven, NL.
Image courtesy the artist and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
Measurements: variable
Collection:
Date Made: 2016
Materials: Various fossils, humidifiers, water
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Swallow All The Brains
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84450
Description: Installation view from the exhibition 'Swallow All The Brains' at de Fabriek, Eindhoven, NL.
Image courtesy the artist and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
Measurements: variable
Collection:
Date Made: 2016
Materials: Various fossils, humidifiers, water
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Swallow All The Brains
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84448
Description: Installation view from the exhibition 'Swallow All The Brains' at de Fabriek, Eindhoven, NL.
Image courtesy the artist and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
Measurements: variable
Collection:
Date Made: 2016
Materials: Various fossils, humidifiers, water
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Swallow All The Brains
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84447
Description: Installation view from the exhibition 'Swallow All The Brains' at de Fabriek, Eindhoven, NL.
Image courtesy the artist and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
Measurements: variable
Collection:
Date Made: 2016
Materials: Various fossils, humidifiers, water
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Swallow All The Brains
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84445
Description: Installation view from the exhibition 'Swallow All The Brains' at de Fabriek, Eindhoven, NL.
Image courtesy the artist and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
Measurements: variable
Collection:
Date Made: 2016
Materials: Various fossils, humidifiers, water
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Spirits Looking At Themselves (detail)
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84457
Description: Installation view of the exhibition 'Oh, for eyes! At night we dream of eyes!' at the Esker Foundation, Calgary.
Image courtesy the artist and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
Measurements: variable
Collection:
Date Made: 2017
Materials: Haunted mirrors, mirrors, aluminum
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Spirits Looking At Themselves
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84456
Description: Installation view of the exhibition 'Oh, for eyes! At night we dream of eyes!' at the Esker Foundation, Calgary.
Image courtesy the artist and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
An ongoing collection of purportedly haunted mirrors (sourced over the course of many years) is presented with each directly facing a mirror of the same size. An architecture is created in which these spirits might recognize themselves and become aware of their conditions.
Measurements: variable
Collection:
Date Made: 2017
Materials: Haunted mirrors, mirrors, aluminum
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Swallow All The Brains
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84451
Description: Installation view from the exhibition 'Oh, for eyes! At night we dream of eyes!' at the Esker Foundation, Calgary.
Image courtesy the artist and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
Measurements: various
Collection:
Date Made: 2017
Materials: Various fossils, humidifiers, water
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Spirits Looking At Themselves (detail)
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84458
Description: Installation view of the exhibition 'From What Remains' at the Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina.
Image courtesy the artist and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
Measurements: variable
Collection:
Date Made: 2017
Materials: Haunted mirror and mirror
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Installation view, from the exhibition ‘Oh, for eyes! At night we dream of eyes!’ at the Esker Foundation, Calgary
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84454
Description: Foreground:
Hope, Love, Peace, Healing, Generosity, Purpose, Harmony, 2008 -2017
Crystal specimens, speaker, and amplifier
Dimensions variable
Image courtesy the artist and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
Practitioners of crystal healing therapy propose that specific crystals have the potential to heal and transform the body and spirit because of the respective frequencies at which they vibrate. These vibrations are said to correspond to certain metaphysical energies inherently present in all people. Through relaying a constantly oscillating frequency through an ever-growing collection of specimens (determined by the relative frequencies of this collection) Hope, Love, Peace, Healing, Generosity, Purpose, Harmony proposes, as a gesture of good will, the amplification of the collective qualities of the crystals within, as well as beyond, the exhibition space.
Background:
Shroud, 2018
Salt on 3D printed ABS filament
72 x 23 x 21 in.
Image courtesy the artist and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
The ninth of nine mineral growths on pre-existing figurative sculptures.
Measurements: variable
Collection:
Date Made: 2017
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Proposal for a megalith on a maritime beach
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84452
Description: Image courtesy the artist and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
Measurements: variable
Collection:
Date Made: 2017
Materials: digital collage
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Structure for Observing Atypical Flight
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84436
Description: Installation view from the exhibition 'Eth Yrtannry Fo Istdance' at Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto.
Image courtesy the artists and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
A pavilion designed according to a number of the site conditions of Corbin, East Kootenays, BC; a town whose rich history includes geological phenomena, First Nations quarrying, hunting & trading, coal mining, natural disaster, labour struggle, rum running and ruin.
Today Corbin is a ghost town, isolated in a remote mountain pass and only seasonally inhabited by a small population of humans (including myself and several others—we have co-organized an annual residency program for the past 6 years) that co-habitate with a variety of wildlife. Of particular note are the Black-chinned, Anna’s, Calliope, and Rufous Hummingbirds that pass through each summer. These four species visit South-eastern British Columbia as part of incredible annual migrations; some birds come all the way from Southern Mexico, through the Crowsnest Pass and onward, as far north as the Yukon. Their populations are remarkably dense in Corbin; they can often be observed swarming in the dozens. This structure is intended to function as an apparatus for the observation of these animals and a tool with which to responsibly support their health. Its form is derived from a nearby pit mine; a negative inverse ziggurat resulting from a century of coal extraction. The mine is scheduled to close this year and so this structure also serves as a monument to its horror and as a new possibility for human engagement and interaction in the region. The bottles-turned-feeders were salvaged from one of the town’s former dumpsites: a steep ravine containing many decades worth of waste and debris.
Measurements: 20 x 20 x 14 feet / variable
Collection:
Date Made: 2018
Materials: steel, found glass bottles, copper, paint
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Eth Yrtannry Fo Istdance (Installation view)
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84460
Description: Installation view of the exhibition 'Eth Yrtannry Fo Istdance' at Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto.
Image courtesy the artist and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
Measurements: variable
Collection:
Date Made: 2018
Materials:
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Lizard Wine (with Kris Lindskoog)
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84461
Description: Image courtesy the artists and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
This set of images documents a strange and unexpected encounter: A long-time neighbour removes several dozen jars from a dilapidated shed, laying them out on the lawn. Each contains a reptile suspended in alcohol. Over the following hours he transfers fluids by firelight: swapping old preserving liquids for new, prolonging the life of these many corpses—the remains of his former pets.
Measurements: 48.26 1/2 x 35.56 3/4 cm (each).
Collection:
Date Made: 2018
Materials: 3 of 18 archival inkjet prints in custom artist frames
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Six Fifty and Fifteen and a Half Seconds (my sister’s watch stopped between two haunted mirrors)
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84459
Description: Image courtesy the artist and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
A wrist watch belonging to Candace Gladue, who died as she wandered through an installation involving a collection of purportedly haunted mirrors.
Measurements: variable
Collection:
Date Made: 2018
Materials: watch, sterling silver thread
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Structure for Observing Atypical Flight (detail)
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84465
Description: Installation view from the exhibition 'Eth Yrtannry Fo Istdance' at Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto.
Image courtesy the artists and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
Measurements: 20 x 20 x 14 feet / variable
Collection:
Date Made: 2018
Materials: steel, found glass bottles, copper, paint
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Shroud
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84455
Description: Installation view from the exhibition 'Oh, for eyes! At night we dream of eyes!' at the Esker Foundation, Calgary.
Image courtesy the artist and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
The ninth of nine mineral growths on pre-existing figurative sculptures.
Measurements: 182.88 x 7.62 x 53.34 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2018
Materials: Salt on 3D printed ABS filament
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Barge Dirge
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84462
Description: Installation view from the exhibition 'Eth Yrtannry Fo Istdance' at Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto.
Image courtesy the artists and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
Measurements: 124.46 x 172.72 cm
Collection:
Date Made: 2018
Materials: collage
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Structure for Observing Atypical Flight (detail)
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84463
Description: Installation view from the exhibition 'Eth Yrtannry Fo Istdance' at Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto.
Image courtesy the artists and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
Measurements: 20 x 20 x 14 feet / variable
Collection:
Date Made: 2018
Materials: steel, found glass bottles, copper, paint
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Structure for Observing Atypical Flight (detail)
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84464
Description: Installation view from the exhibition 'Eth Yrtannry Fo Istdance' at Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto.
Image courtesy the artists and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
Measurements: 20 x 20 x 14 feet / variable
Collection:
Date Made: 2018
Materials: steel, found glass bottles, copper, paint
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Future Age
Artist: Jason de Haan
Work ID: 84466
Description: Image courtesy the artist and Clint Roenisch Gallery.
A gold ring is placed onto an upper branch of a selected tree. Like a ring that grows snug on a slowly swelling finger, this band will affect and be affected by the tree's eventual growth. The potential result is unpredictable and may take years to reveal itself. Each branch might eventually break free from its shackle, be strangled to death, or swallow the ring, incorporating it into its own natural growth rings.
Measurements: variable
Collection:
Date Made: ongoing, various locations
Materials: Gold ring on tree branch
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
