HEARING VOICES
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Hearing Voices is a studio research project focusing on performance with sculpture to embody the people, places and species displaced by current primary resource industry practices in British Columbia, while questioning how the earth could heal itself if we could learn how to harvest sustainably. Photographs documenting over fifty former village and industry sites on the east and west coasts of Canada form the base of portable sculptures that are activated by the body through performances engaging basic acts of labour (by walking, carrying, pushing, pulling, lifting) to reflect on how we might revision current labour practices with relational integrity while looking to the earth as teacher.
Performances for Hearing Voices are focused on encounters with people and places, without pre-planned spectatorship and take place in general areas (neighbourhoods) in villages, towns, and cities on Vancouver Island. If you are out and about for a walk, errands, or other daily events, you may see me engaged with sculpture in your area.
The project is made possible with the support of Legacy Art Gallery, Comox Valley Art Gallery and The Sointula Art Shed. The prototype for Hearing Voices was developed with the support of Gillian Booth, Barb Hunt and with technical support by David Holloway. The research is indebted to the research and writing of Vandana Shiva and Anishinaabe biologist Robin Wall Kimmerer. The project is funded with the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Performances for Hearing Voices are focused on encounters with people and places, without pre-planned spectatorship and take place in general areas (neighbourhoods) in villages, towns, and cities on Vancouver Island. If you are out and about for a walk, errands, or other daily events, you may see me engaged with sculpture in your area.
The project is made possible with the support of Legacy Art Gallery, Comox Valley Art Gallery and The Sointula Art Shed. The prototype for Hearing Voices was developed with the support of Gillian Booth, Barb Hunt and with technical support by David Holloway. The research is indebted to the research and writing of Vandana Shiva and Anishinaabe biologist Robin Wall Kimmerer. The project is funded with the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts.