Location & Facilities

The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies is located within the University Centre (the former Faculty Club) in the cultural heart of the University of British Columbia. Spectacular views of Howe Sound and the North Shore Mountains enhance the natural setting, and downtown Vancouver is minutes away.

The Institute is conveniently located close to the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, the Museum of Anthropology, the Frederick Wood Theatre, and the Belkin Art Gallery.

The University Centre is readily accessible by bus or taxi. Pay parking is available in front of the building or in the adjacent Rose Garden Parkade.

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About the Art

e-loo’me-nem
Al + Na3(AlF6)
aluminum, paint
H 8.0’ x W 21.6’ x D 3/8”

This piece has been site-specifically created for the boardroom of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia. The institute is a place for advanced interdisciplinary research and it is the intent of this installation art to illustrate the process of research. All research moves from the identification of a complex (albeit manageable) subject through its many stages of confusion, detours, unproductive leads and complicated fragments of information to finally  a more comprehensive and productive understanding of the elements of the subject under investigation. This understanding can lead to brilliant solutions and sometimes the new information lies dormant waiting for its time.

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In this wall-mounted art, the hand-drawn lines are technologically translated and cut into 4", 5" and 6" strips of 3/8" aluminum. These strips identify the many stages of uneven development in the investigative process. The colour of the strip at the window begins with the palest of hues representing the beginning of an idea. Referencing the accumulation of the research data (creating more density and new problems), the colours of the aluminum strips also begin to deepen to darker blues and eventually to near black at the corner. The brighter, illuminating colour of brilliant yellow indicates the increasing clarification and understanding that is achieved through prolonged research. All the colours represent the intensity and dedication inherent within all valid and valuable research.

Charlotte Wall
Vancouver, Nov. 2009