The People's Gallery is place where different voices and interests come together to create something larger than the individual; it is a place for questions and important conversations. The AGNS aspires to be an agent of social change, an essential service to re-position voices, empower artists and relegate authority, and nowhere is this manifest more clearly than in the Peoples' Gallery. In fostering inclusive economic growth through cultural tourism, the Peoples' Gallery creates an authentic sense of place through the arts, a place of belonging for Nova Scotians, shaped by Nova Scotians.
The Peoples' Gallery is the Arts District; it is the setting for the new AGNS and the stage for all that happens in the District. It inspires and supports collaboration, performance, discussion, creation, entrepreneurship, exploration, and learning. The entire ground plane, indoors and out, is devoted to new forms of cultural expression and art-making that break from the traditional mold of the public art institution. The Peoples' Gallery is an open invitation to participate in and shape the district and all that it has to offer, whether quilting at the community maker's table, building a canoe and exploring the tidal marsh, or hiking up 175 stairs along the building's colourful north façade to George's Lookout. The Peoples' Gallery is where people, nature, culture, and art intersect in new and unexpected ways.
To relegate authority is to break from constructs that lack meaning in a particular context. In the case of this project and this site, a powerful opportunity exists to be liberated from the dominant tempo of our society; clocks, schedules, the rhythms imposed where time is lost. Humans since time immemorial have worshipped the sun. The cycles of the day not the hours of operation. By honouring first light, the AGNS connects to a greater construct of time that with each signals a new beginning our chance to make a change in this world. This belief is at the core of our team's approach.
When did you last see the sun rise and feel the light? Every sunrise is an opportunity for a new day, a moment of transformation. Daybreak offers a chance for awakening, and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia's First Light invites us to our consciousness. It reconnects us to the earth's rhythm, a means to discover dawn within ourselves and one another, as light much like art, connects us.
Sea change is a paradigm shift; a widespread change in perspective; new ways of thinking. The new AGNS and Peoples' Gallery exemplify a sea change in how we relate to our environment, to each other, to art. It's how the architecture of the new AGNS does not impose meaning but can be interpreted in many different ways depending on the lens of the visitor. It's how the site is shaped, organized, and activated by water. It's how the eddy of movement of the landscape through and around the building create a weave of architecture and landscape that blurs the lines between inside and out; gallery and public space. But most importantly, it's the flexible, indeterminate platform that we've created; the framework shaped by our original questions, which will be populated by more questions, answers, and important conversations over time.
From the great harbour to first light, the AGNS is an open invitation to our past, present and future. Welcome to a challenging, ambitious and contemporary new light.
(From competitor's text)
All three design teams brought forward ambitious and quality design visions for the New Art Gallery of Nova Scotia to anchor this new Arts District. Each excelled in embracing the multitude of challenges and desires for the Project to be welcoming, sustainable, accommodate a wide spectrum of programming, and challenge the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia to rethink what it means to be an Art Gallery for now and into the future.
(From jury report)
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