The second in a series of texts reflecting on moments that nourish, energize, and sustain artistic practice.
Responses
Contributors are invited to think deeply about the concepts, questions, and frameworks that arise in response to artistic programming.
On Time
Time, depending on who you are, where you are, and when you are, can mean many different things. Time is a unit of measure. Time is an experience. Time is saved. Time is spent. Time is wasted. Time is money. Time flies. Or it drags on. Time is a construct, a concept, a currency. Time is attention. Time is value. And for some, time is a medium.
Understanding is love’s other name
“Each night, movie attendees gather on the shoreline to watch the beach films, projected on an eleven-meter screen erected directly in the lake. Viewers dig themselves makeshift seats in the sand. Feasting mosquitos gather. Waves lap. Frogs chirp. Credits roll.”
Sustaining art work part I
Part one of two texts reflecting on moments that nourish, energize, and sustain artistic practice.
Digital Art: a discipline shaped by technology and artists’ evolving, reciprocal experiences
A rabbit-hole attempt at creating a syllabus for digital art; a response to Working Title: Digital Art Curriculum.
Feedback with Biofeedback: a [digital] gardening project
Collaboration, collectivity, and community care with the Biofeedback Collective.
Shadowed Scaffolds: on Joanne Bristol’s back issues (Ackerman)
Presented for two days in the spring of 2022, Bristol’s archive of past work was embedded in the basement storage space of her former home.
Talking About Sounds Like (An Experimental Opera Response)
An experimental response to the Sounds Like audio art and experimental music festival, based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Between the Ruffles: Métis Storytelling
A response to the Love in Every Stitch: Métis Ribbon Skirts from Kistapinanihk exhibition at the Mann Art Gallery with support from the Shushkitew Collective.
The Meat and Potatoes for Métis Gatherings
A response to the Radical Stitch: Beading Symposium at the MacKenzie Art Gallery and hosted in partnership with the Shushkitew Collective.
Holding a Gap: the Work of Miki Mappin
Considering the ways Miki Mappin’s artworks create and hold shared space.