E.2 ROUNDTABLE Reciprocal Ecologies in Materials Research
Fri Oct 16 / 14:00 – 15:30
voice_chat expiredchair / Angela Henderson, NSCAD University
Angela Henderson, witness trees, 2019, linen string and larch.
This panel seeks to draw together diverse practices to collectively imagine art and design research as a reciprocal engagement with materials. This may include an emphasis on ecologies of extraction and application, or exploratory processes that recognize material agency within creative practice. In the development and application of material palettes, innovative methodologies emerge through an interrogation of process. How can the “materialist turn” in art and design inform an integrated and ecologically sound perspective within the methodologies of creation and application? In the shift to ecologically sound materials, can we avoid the pitfalls of exploitation and extraction that are the driving forces of our current capitalist economy? This panel will invite interdisciplinary conversations that seek to transgress the silos between art and design by foregrounding notions of reciprocity in material ecologies of research and creation.
Angela Henderson is an artist and educator based in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia). Her site-specific practice explores absence as a generative condition for marking memory, weaving together embodied approaches to mapping, installation, sculpture and radical pedagogy. Her work has been exhibited across Canada, Italy, Poland and Germany. She is currently a co-applicant on two SSHRC funded research projects; Memory Activism and Collaborative Processes of Counter-Memorialization and A Tactical Urbanism approach to assessing the value of accessible public spaces.
panelists /
- Nicole Clouston, Independent Researcher
- Lindsey Bond, Graduate Student, Intermedia Dept at University of Alberta
- Marie-Soleil (Sunny) Provençal, MFA, NSCAD University
- Jay Pahre, MFA, University of British Columbia
Nicole Clouston. Mud (Lake Ontario), 2017 - present. Mud, Microbes, Polycarbonate.
Nicole Clouston is a practice-based researcher who completed her Ph.D. in Visual Art at York University and her MFA at the University of Victoria. In her practice she asks: What happens when we acknowledge, through an embodied experience, our connection to a world teeming with life both around and inside us? Nicole has exhibited across Canada and internationally, most recently in Detroit, Michigan. She was the artist in residence at the Coalesce Bio Art Lab at the University at Buffalo and the artist in residence at Idea Projects: Ontario Science Centre’s Studio Residencies at MOCA: nicoleclouston.com
Lindsey Bond. Visiting memory: Grandmother swimming in the Battle River, Series: Ecosystems of Memory. Digital photograph, 40" x 20", photosculpture (plastic cast sewn together with silver gelatin photograph) 11" x 9" x 6", Battle River, Treaty 6 Territory, RM of Wilton, July 2020.
Lindsey Bond is a photo media-artist and mother from amiskwacîwâskahikan, Edmonton where the North Saskatchewan River runs deep underneath ever-stretching prairie skies. She makes meaning through collaboration and creating photographic installations, books and needlework that speak to the absence and presence of inheritance, motherhood, and the memory-site. Bond previously received her BFA in Photography from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and studied Visual Communications / Photography at Edinburgh College of Art in Edinburgh, Scotland. Lindsey previously lived in Winnipeg, MB for seven years raising her son and creating community art projects about the impact of the railway and resilience. She is descended from Scottish (MacLean), English (Reynolds/Bond) and German (Weich/Hoffman) family. The Reynolds/Bond family lived in Nunebor/Wilton RM, SK (Treaty 6), the Hoffman family from Hannah/Okotoks, AB (Treaty 7) and the MacLean family from Fredericton, NB, unceded territory of the Wəlastəkwiyik (Maliseet) Peoples.
Marie-Soleil Provençal-Aube. MATTER, 2020. Wood, Ashes.
Marie-Soleil (Sunny) Provençal is from Quebec, Canada. She completed a Major in Fine Arts with Honours in studio at Bishop's University in 2019. She is a Master’s Student in Fine Arts at NSCAD University in Halifax, Canada. She is interested in the involvement of materials as co-participants in contemporary art practice. Some of her artworks have been chosen by the gallery Art Mûr Montréal for their annual exhibition on most promising artists from Canadian universities from 2017-19. She has been an assistant professor in sculpture, technician in Fine Arts, and instructor in Visual Arts since 2011. She currently works as a research intern on alternative sustainable materials with waste such as sawdust, wood ashes and oyster shells.
Jay Pahre. Piebald Undercoat, 2020. Aluminum wire, copper plated steel wire, gauze, 21” x 27".
Jay Pahre is a queer and trans settler artist, writer, and cultural worker currently based on the unceded territories of the of Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Weaving between drawing, sculpture and writing, his work queries trans and queer nonhuman ecologies at points of intersection with the human. He received his BFA in Painting and BA in East Asian Studies from the University of Illinois in 2014, and went on to complete his MA in East Asian Studies in 2017. He will complete his MFA in Visual Art at the University of British Columbia in 2020. His work has been exhibited across the US and Canada, and he has received multiple teaching awards alongside research and community-activism recognition for the support and advocacy work he has done for and with LGBTQ2S+ communities since 2009.
