Snow Shoveling

This three-part video installation by Hannah Jickling and Valerie Salez raises the quintessentially Canadian act of snow shoveling to new heights. Playful, bizarre, and occasionally simply beautiful, these performative actions by Jickling and Salez were made in Halfax and Dawson city (where the pair recently completed an artists' residency). The actions range in style from pleasing patterning, through social intervention to humorous vaudeville; in each instance the artists find something to value about the white stuff that most of us simply want to shovel away.