Hearing Voices is a studio research project focusing on performance with sculpture to embody the people, places and species displaced by current primary resource industry practices, while questioning how the earth could heal itself if we could learn how to harvest sustainably. Photographs documenting over fifty past village and industry sites on the east and west coasts of Canada form the base of portable sculptures that are activated by the body through labour-performances (performances engaging basic acts of labour by walking, carrying, pushing, pulling, lifting) to reflect on how we might revision current labour practices with relational integrity while looking to the earth as teacher.
The prototype for Hearing Voices was developed with the support of Gillian Booth, the University of Victoria Legacy Gallery, artist/mentor Barb Hunt and with technical support by David Holloway. The research is indebted to the research and writing of Vandana Shiva and Anishinaabe biologist Robin Wall Kimmerer. The project is funded with the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
The prototype for Hearing Voices was developed with the support of Gillian Booth, the University of Victoria Legacy Gallery, artist/mentor Barb Hunt and with technical support by David Holloway. The research is indebted to the research and writing of Vandana Shiva and Anishinaabe biologist Robin Wall Kimmerer. The project is funded with the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts.