This summer the Belkin Satellite is pleased to host a residency for Vancouver artists Gareth Moore and Jacob Gleeson who will continue working on their collaborative project St. George Marsh.

Established in June 2005, and named for the street on which it was located—in an area that was once swampland—St. George Marsh was a storefront commercial venture in a residential area. The store featured a diverse collection of items for both sale and display, and was in a constant state of flux as materials were amassed, reconfigured and dispersed. It included, among other things, a video rental department/shelf, a candy section, a garden stocked with clippings of plants, a book store and library, a grocery department and a small gallery. By combining art and museological oddities with ingestible goods, Moore and Gleeson were interested in confusing the roles of these objects.

In August of 2006, St. George March closed its doors. During their residency Moore and Gleeson will continue the task of cataloging and reorganizing the articles that remain from St. George Marsh, transforming the collection into something reflective of its past while considering its future.

Between 2001 and 2008, the Belkin Satellite operated as an auxiliary space in downtown Vancouver that presented a mix of exhibitions by local artists, new projects by mid-career artists, experimental projects by UBC curatorial studies students, and served as an additional venue for the Belkin’s permanent collection. Its location at 555 Hamilton Street is Vancouver’s most enduring single gallery space as the prior site of the Bau-Xi Gallery from 1964 to 1972 and the Contemporary Art Gallery from 1973 to 2001; in August 2008, the Or Gallery took over the site.