Works and performances have been curated and produced by MASSIVart.
MASSIVart is a creative placemaking and public art firm. Through culture driven solutions, a multidisciplinary team and a global artist network, we create destinations where business and community meet.

Burnaby Hospital Foundation

For the #SummerAtTheMET scratch and win game, Metropolis at Metrotown will donate $2 to Burnaby Hospital Foundation for every non-winner up to $2500. In addition, Johnny’s Pops will hand out popsicles in exchange for $5 donations.
As the fundraising organization for Burnaby Hospital, they bridge the gap between what the government provides and what the community needs. Their purpose is to ensure that Burnaby Hospital is equipped in every way to advance the health of all generations that will help maintain the vibrancy of the entire community.

Everyday heroes surround and inspire us and drive our passion for what they do. They’re the people in the hospital hallways, sometimes they’re medical staff, sometimes brave-faced patients undergoing treatment. Often, they are people who step into our office with a desire to give back and tell their stories.

Trevor Wheatley and Cosmo Dean of Top Top Projects

Trevor Wheatley and Cosmo Dean are best known for their sculptural installations that re-contextualize popular language. Large scale letters made from a range of materials are driven out of the city and placed in surreal natural environments. With Cosmo’s experience in design and contracting and Trevor’s background in set design and studio art, their work has integrated itself into the world of experiential design and permanent public installation. The last few years have seen the duo exhibit internationally while also creating installations for Nike, RED, Spotify, Off White, Stussy, Google, YouTube, Wayhome Festival (Toronto), Osheaga Festival(Montréal), and Life is Beautiful (Las Vegas).

Description of Works:

The outdoor floor mural and functional structures were designed to engage the public so that they feel inspired to use the space in a new way. Trevor Wheatley and Cosmo Dean designed the artworks by exploring how they could reimagine a familiar space to make it feel new and playful. The graphic statement, ‘You Me Us’ showcases the importance of community, while also maintaining a playful feeling energized by imagery that represents the outdoor nature of the summer season in Vancouver. Trevor Wheatley and Cosmo Dean want people in the community to feel a new sense of welcome in the space, and hope to bring new life to the fountain at Metropolis at Metrotown. The wood structures are made of cedar and pressure treated wood with a slatted wood finish. The floor graphic is hand painted using stencils and free hand techniques. The floor graphic pattern continues onto the structures, and wraps around the fountain creating a visual connection between all four structures.

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LIZ WEST

Liz West (b.1985) is a British artist known for her wide-ranging works, from the intimate to the monumental. Using a variety of materials and exploring the use of light, she blurs the boundaries between sculpture, architecture, design, and painting to create works that are both playful and immersive. West aims to provoke a heightened sensory awareness in the viewer through her works and is interested in exploring how sensory phenomena can invoke psychological and physical responses that tap into our own deeply entrenched relationships to color. West’s investigation into the relationship between color and light is often realized through an engagement between materiality and a given site. Our understanding of color can only be realized through the presence of light. West has been commissioned worldwide by institutions and organizations including Natural History Museum, London; National Trust and National Science and Media Museum, both in the UK; London Design Festival; Paris Fashion Week; Milan Design Week; Dubai Design Week, and the Bristol Biennial, UK; among others. West’s work has been included in exhibitions at St Albans Museum + Gallery, Chester Cathedral, and Compton Verney, all in England; Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris; Kraftwerk Berlin; and Bangalore International Centre, India. https://www.liz-west.com/ @lizweststudio

Description of Works:

HYMN TO THE BIG WHEEL

Hymn to the Big Wheel is an immersive sculptural work exploring the illusion and physicality of color and natural light in space. Consisting of a multi-colored octagon nestled within a larger octagonal shape, this work encourages the viewer to reposition and align themselves to differing colorways to see a changing scope of colors mixing before their eyes. Constructed using transparent colored sheets, the work prompts the playful movement of visitors to explore the work in context with their surroundings. This saturated installation is an energizing beacon of color that radiates across the space it inhabits, creating an intriguing interplay of colored shadows for people to discover. The viewer becomes performer within the work as they move around the inside and outside of the structure to explore the changing optics and colorways mixing within the installation. The jewel-like colors create diverse mixes and blends when viewed from different angles from around the installation, as well as producing a sundial effect by casting multi-colored shadows on the asphalt. Hymn to the Big Wheel was originally commissioned by Canary Wharf Group for Summer Lights 2021.

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FakeKnot Arts Society

Description of Works:

The Pride Dance Performance by FakeKnot was created in response to Liz West’s immersive sculpture, Hymn to the Big Wheel. Featuring choreography and costume design by Ralph Escamillan, five performers activate the sculpture and interact with its vivid kaleidoscope of colours through movements that knot together the performers. White costumes shift through the performance, becoming a surface for the transitional planes of light created by the sculpture. Ralph was inspired by how this light takes up space quite literally, finding parallels in the ongoing discourse of space taking/reclaiming by queer artists of colour.