September 19 Speaker Profile: Reece Terris
This is a special event as part of Vancouver Design Week 2014, happening September 15–28. CreativeMornings is committed to celebrating emerging creative talent of all kinds, so we are happy to participate in VDW2014 as an opportunity to cross-pollenate and empower designers and design-thinkers, and help encourage dialogue about creativity and design across all disciplines, catalyzing an even more transformative Vancouver design culture.
Reece Terris is a Vancouver based artist whose work alters the expected experiential qualities of a place or object through an amplification or shift in the primary function of an original design.
Past projects include a six-storey apartment building temporarily installed in the rotunda of the Vancouver Art Gallery, a pedestrian wooden bridge connecting two residential homes, and an architectural false front added to the existing false front of an artist-run centre.
His practice is manifest through a variety of media, including sculpture, performance, installation, and photography, and quite often, through their hybrid execution, complicates the traditional definitions of each of these.
How do you define creativity and apply it in your career?
I define creativity as a making things happen in the world. When the urge or desire to make something real becomes insistent I typically begin looking for an outlet for the the production of that creative impulse.
Where do you find your best creative inspiration?
My creative inspiration typically comes through an awareness of the space that I am in and imagining a formal response to what the space offers. A kind of sculptural dialogue between what is already there and what I am imagining could be there. (I also let my mind wander when reading).
What’s the one creative advice or tip you wish you’d known as a young person?
It took me a long time to get back into post secondary education. Perhaps going back earlier would have been good for me.
Who would you like to hear speak at CreativeMornings?
Alexandra Morton (living). Or Guy Debord, Gordon Matta Clark or James Brown (deceased).
How would you describe what you do in a single sentence to a stranger?
I create architectural installations and interventions which involve a modification or shift within the intention of an original design.
What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done?
I snuck off to Hungary to crash my parents backpacking trip with the intention of pretending to be my Hungarian double. It was very difficult to locate them however and I ended up diving into a taxi they were about to get into.
What fact about you would surprise people?
My life is well past it’s halfway point. Whenever I think about it, it surprises me. I suppose it may surprise others as well.
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