Unboxing Vid Miranda Bellamy & Amanda Fauteux with Colleen Coco Collins 4k video, words and voice by Colleen Coco Collins 2025 7:27 minutes
Image credit: Still from video
In Unboxing Vid, we move through space and time to the mouth of the Petitcodiac river, within the Sikniktuk district of Mi’kma’ki; the unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq, also known as Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada. This is where, in 1838, geologist Abraham Gesner commercialised the mining of the bituminous hydrocarbon Albertite, used to produce kerosene through a distillation process that Gesner invented. The implications were profound: the whaling industry rapidly collapsed, affordable lighting transformed societies around the world, and the way was paved for a fossil fueled future. Today, apples line the roads to the largely forgotten mine site.
The artists acknowledge the support of The New Brunswick Arts Board and Struts Gallery.
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