Robert Chafe - Thought #8 - The Bonavista Biennale

I'm just about to hop in a car and drive three hours from St John's to the Bonavista peninsula to take in the second instalment of the Bonavista Biennale, a project that started back in 2017 and it's having its second iteration this year. An incredible, ambitious, beautiful art site-seeing tour across the Bonavista peninsula, where you dip into these little buildings, and some not so little, along that road that I've driven many many times in my life but I've never noticed these buildings before, and now you walk in and there's magical...almost as if by magic there are these incredible art displays. It's an incredible way to encounter some fantastic contemporary visual art while at the same time getting to know an area intimately, and it's my new favourite thing in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. So I'm thinking a lot about vision and ambition and thinking outside the box and ways of transforming space and that's what I'm thinking about today.