PATRICK  MAHON
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River of Names Project, Patrick Mahon & Dickson Bou with Mona Stonefish
The Living River Project: Art, Water and Possible Worlds
Art Gallery of Windsor
Oct. 2018 – Jan. 2019
Co-curated by Patrick Mahon and Stuart Reid

Co-curated by Patrick Mahon and Stuart Reid Nadine Bariteau, Patrick Mahon + Dickson Bou, Elizabeth Chitty, Soheila Esfahani, Joscelyn Gardner, Gautam Garoo, Colin Miner, Chris Myhr, Troy Ouellette, Lee Rodney with Justin Langlois, Michael Dara, Hamilton Perambulatory Unit and Interminus Research Group, Quinn Smallboy, Patricia Coates, Jennifer Willet This exhibition built on previous iterations of the water project to consider the cultural, historical and environmental significance of water issues in the Windsor-Detroit corridor. Drawing from the region’s history as well as the increasingly precarious ecology of the Detroit River, artists Nadine Bariteau, Patrick Mahon + Dickson Bou, Elizabeth Chitty, Soheila Esfahani, Joscelyn Gardner, Gautam Garoo, Colin Miner, Chris Myhr, Troy Ouellette, Lee Rodney with Justin Langlois, Michael Dara, Hamilton Perambulatory Unit and Interminus Research Group, Quinn Smallboy, Patricia Coates, and Jennifer Willet came together to reflect on the nature of water while advocating for its historical preservation and environmental protection.

A community-generated project, entitled River of Names, involving school children from Marlborough Public School and West Gate Public School in Windsor, working with Indigenous elder, Mona Stonefish, and artists Patrick Mahon and Dickson Bou, was featured as part of the Living River Project exhibition.