As part of Expanded’s ‘How to Guide’ Series, artist and writer Roewan Crowe shares an excerpt from Violet’s Impossible Garden, a queer sequel to the gritty, poetic western, Quivering Land (ARP).
Roewan Crowe
Artist, writer, and professor, Roewan Crowe, lives and works on Treaty 1 Territory. Through the use of performance, installation, video, text, and theory, Crowe creates intimate landscapes, making space for connection and strange encounters. Their practice engages in material explorations, questions of form, site-specificity, and collaborative processes. Work includes: digShift, an environmental reclamation project; Lifting Stone, a queer femme performance/installation creating intimate poetic encounters; and the book Quivering Land, a gritty feminist meditation on the possibilities of art in response to white settler colonial violences. Recently, alongside co-pollinatrix Dallas Cant, they launched the SWARM arc.hive, www.swarm.greenhouseartlab.com, a sympoetic, more-than-human, collective, artistic project centering encounters with bees. Crowe is currently writing, Violet’s Impossible Garden. Visit www.roewancrowe.com.
BlackFlash Expanded is excited to launch our series focusing on collectives with an archive of Prairie Collectives that have and continue to shape the region.