01 The Apocalypse Pantry: A Survivor’s Guide to Happiness in the Urban Armageddon
Co-created with Zayaan Khan, the Apocalypse Pantry is a life-long work in process where we develop strategies to thrive within global poly-crisis. What began as a piece of kinesthetic speculative fiction in which we memoired an imagined post capitalist future, The Apocalypse Pantry became a way for us to pathfind modalities of living that rely less on the systems of oppression that currently mediate the meeting of most human needs. Through embodied experimentation, reviving pre-industrial capitalism skills and exhuming the buried practices of our personal ancestral lineages we have gone from speculating on the future to creating collective learning spaces in the present.
In cooperation with the A4 Arts Foundation
Prepping for a community skill-up to the sounds of the choir from the church next door
Urban foraging; drinking protea nectar and eating ant snacks
02 The Solitary Plaything: A Sensory Experiment in Isolation
Exploring play as a private, sensory pleasure seeking experience in contrast to the dominance of play as a socialization/ normalization tool.
Silicone, Sand, Felted Wool, Bela mini chip and touch pad sensors
Music composed by Maylee Todd
Sensor coding by Peter Bussigel
Made possible with support from the Canada Council for the Arts
03 A Place For Remembering While Making Future Plans
A hand-made short film telling the deep time love story of Rock and Water made in collaboration with the NFB and the Canada Council for the Arts
04 Material Intimacy
With the two-headed monster goal of reclaiming the means of my own creative production AND soothing the torment of my climate guilt, I explored after regenerative approaches to sculpture.
Seeking and finding fossil fuel-free materials that require a devotional amount of care and cultivation through the vastly varied ethnographies of ancestry, dreams, memories, ghost stories, info dumps amongst friends and sensory exploration. Arriving, for now, in the expansive worlds of limestone plaster and live mycelium.
Made possible with support from the Canada Council for the Arts
05 The Sound of What’s Missing
A full body listening experience of a sonified data soundscape made from our local coastal tidal rhythms. A wood and limestone plaster sound womb that cradles the body while inviting one to make music with the planet through the synth/pedal set up provided.
Data sonification co-composed with Tzara Boraine (@tzara_brain)
Accompanying program for the 8EAST and Harcourt House/ New Music Edmonton exhibitions below.
Made in collaboration with the Canada Council for the Arts
