Fountain, a performance work and video installation dealing with elemental essences-fire + water = blood-will be presented by Rebecca Belmore as Canada's official representative at the 2005 Venice Biennale. Belmore, a Vancouver-based Anishinabekwe artist, creates works which explore the Aboriginal attachment to the land, both now, in the industrialized landscape of North America, and in the past, a time of myth. "Location and memory are key elements in my approach to making art," she says. "I am aware of the elusive nature of memory. Creating in the presence of the absent makes me a witness." In both color and black-and-white.