I am busy gardening in the context of art... Lori Weidenhammer and I have begun to imagine ways to articulate the alliance of growing things and art:
Ecofabricationists? cultural ecology? sowing plant life into art markets... Embedding flora/ nutritive value/ sustenance into the residue of the electronics markets...
Whatever it is that we are up to, there are a couple of events (aside from my dirty fingernails) that will show the results of getting my hands in the dirt:
Flowers for Joyce (still), 7:00 S8 movie
Serious Women Artists Don't Do Flowers is a group exhibition to open at the Seymour Art Gallery on April 15, 2008 (7-9 pm). It runs until May 11. Details are here: Download brochure - front ;Download brochure - back
The exhibition has been organized and curated by Kriss Boggild and includes the work of: Amona Ra, Cindy Anderson, Lois Klassen, Elizabeth Mancini, Elaine Mari, Bettina Matzkuhn, Alice Philips, Katherine Polgrain, Famous Empty Sky, Kathy Tycholis, Mia Weinberg and Madeleine Wood.
For Serious Women Artists, I am exhibiting Flowers for Joyce, a small format film that documents my gardening of a traffic round-about (last summer). I created it as an homage to Joyce Wieland, especially in response to an artist talk that she gave in Winnipeg in the 1980's. It was at that event that she screened a small format film in which she utilized a makeshift iris to capture, in a distant and intimate way, her immediate natural environment.
Corner Farm - Lori and I are in the midst of putting together a container garden show and plant sale for Saturday, MAY 10 at Cornershop Projects (4393 St. George St.) For me, it will be another durational project: I will be converting the packaging materials from all of our family's electronic purchases in the last 8 years into garden and deck planters. I hope to have for the viewers and buyers vegetable garden housed inside the residue of those items for which nutrition is questionable. Lori who is very concerned for the distribution of seeds, especially all kinds of blooms for pollinators, has provided most of the seeds from her collection.
More details on this project (which will involve more artists) to come. In the meantime, I will begin a photo album that follows the process.
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