THE MENDING GROUND
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THE GROUND THAT MENDS
The Ground that Mends; Connie Michele Morey; June 2021
Stop motion video with 'companion species'; stitched cotton, wool & thread on wool socks
Filmed on site at Eden Grove on unceded Pacheedaht territory in partnership with
Eden Grove Artist in Residence Program.
On site technical assistance: David Holloway
Stop motion video with 'companion species'; stitched cotton, wool & thread on wool socks
Filmed on site at Eden Grove on unceded Pacheedaht territory in partnership with
Eden Grove Artist in Residence Program.
On site technical assistance: David Holloway
HARVEST
Performances "Harvest" and "Gather" took place in the Ancient Forests of Eden Grove and Avatar Grove on unceded Pacheedaht territory in partnership with Eden Grove Artist in Residence Program. Each performance engaged with ritual responses (rather than spectator focused events) of presence and reflection with 1000 year old trees. The performances are indebted to Anishinaabe biologist and Matriarch Robin Wall Kimmerer's advocacy for "The Honourable Harvest", and question what it means to harvest, gather, and labour while looking to the forest as a model for revisioning systemic colonial ideologies of economic growth.
