Contemplation and conviviality on the cusp of the boreal forest.
a creative research project based on Treaty 6 territory / SK
An investigation and contemplation of the ethics and aesthetics of land-based artistic practice.
Through a process of learning, listening and reflection, I aim to develop a practice that advances the work of (re)conciliation while considering new ways of working that are less harmful to the environment and other people. I hope to develop a practice that fosters conviviality and friendship as conditions for artmaking while bringing artistic thinking, creativity, and new expressive forms into the world.
Learning
Sharing resources and models for land-based learning, artist residencies and socially-engaged practice.
Listening
Sharing food and conversation with a diverse and dynamic cohort of visual artists, poets, composers, and thinkers.
Reflection
Sharing thoughts, reflections and artistic responses to the subject of land.
“Colonialism is a cognitive, effective relational impairment based on illusions of separation that have damaged our relationship with ourselves, with each other, with other species and the land”.
Chief Ninawa Huni Kui
Hospicing Modernity