Platforms: We Are Here, Live is a series of temporary public art projects that presented from November 2021 until the end of October 2022.

Platforms: We Are Here, Live commissioned 23 Vancouver-based and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) artists engaged in and grappling with the issues revealed by the COVID-19 global pandemic.

Selected artworks were displayed on the following platforms:

• Billboard at Arbutus St and West 12th Avenue
• Light box at šxʷƛ̓ exən Xwtl’a7shn Plaza 
• Banners at Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch 
• Glass wall at City Centre Canada Line Station 
• Transit shelter posters throughout the city
• VanLive! video screen, Robson St and Granville St
• Digital display boards throughout the city

Alex Grünenfelder’s This World Of Air features ‘Air Report’ posters on transit shelters that invite audiences to experience a deeper sensory engagement with our atmosphere as a global experience that connects us.

The posters display descriptions of the artist’s past experiences of the air in Vancouver and invite audiences to visit @airtasting and airtasting.com where he publishes daily reports of air quality in Vancouver during the poster’s exhibition.

In this time when the atmosphere has become a site of global climate crisis, the artist is proposing that a deeper understanding of our daily personal engagement with the air is more important than ever.