Ryan Ferko

Banff Coal Endowment Society






Ryan Ferko
Site-specific project, Banff Centre, Alberta, 2013

The Banff Coal Endowment Society (BCES) was founded on 14 June 2013 in order for the Bankhead Coal Mine which closed in 1922, to emulate the nostalgia of Liverpool Waters redevelopment project in Liverpool, UK. The BCES has independently (and temporarily) revived the mine, sifting through its coal remainders in order to offer a contribution to an irrational development in the form of combustibles. Just as coal historically powered the ‘essential characteristics’ with which Liverpool Waters associates itself, the BCES aims to revive the essential characteristics of the Bankhead Mine and its history, while linking the two organisations through strategies of nostalgia. The coal shipment was displayed at the Banff Centre, along with a press release and information package, before being sent to the Fiddlers Ferry Power Station on 22 June 2013.

































































 
Banff Coal Endowment Society, process documentation, 2013






ADDITIONAL INFO

  • Project initiated at The Banff Centre, as part of Dock(ing); or, New Economies of Exchange residency, May/June 2013
  • Published in Stages, journal of the Liverpool Biennial, Autumn 2013: PDF here
  • Presented at Fail Again, Fake Better conference, York University, Toronto, March 2014
  • For more information see: (Fake) Shipping (Real) Coal: On the work of Ryan Ferko, by Alison Cooley, Kapsula Journal, May 2014: https://kapsula.ca/releases/KAPSULA_FAILaGAINfAKEbETTER.pdf




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