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Part 3 of Near Dwellers:
Near Dwellers as Creative Collaborators February 2 to April 13, 2024 Julie Andreyev and Ruth K. Burke Reception & workshops: Saturday April 13, 2024 11am - 4pm RECEPTION/CLOSING for Near Dwellers as Creative Collaborators PARTICIPATORY work with Ruth K. Burke, a team of draft horses, and you: help us plant a pollinator garden, in collaboration with our more-than-human friends. Also, a seed tile making station will be open: make your own plant-able works of art. 11am - plowing begins 12:30pm (approx) - planting begins In case of light to medium rain the event will proceed. CAN'T COME IN PERSON? Connect virtually: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86294622986 Online Discussion with the artists and Jane Desmond Saturday May 4, 2024 1-3 pm EST 12-2 pm CDT 10am-1pm Pacific The artists and scholar Jane Desmond will discuss the role art plays in fostering empathetic relations with more-than-human beings. (Further details below/right.) Connect via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89008075379 Please email us with any enquiries, for purchasing information, and to visit by appointment, including virtual visits. |
Artists Julie Andreyev and Ruth K. Burke introduce us to human-animal creative collaborations that seek to foster kinship relations with other critters and wider ecologies. Their art projects press us to engage with more critical questions of the ethics of these relationships and how one might re-imagine animal labour, in the case of Ruth K. Burke's collaborations, and the nature of interspecies reciprocity, in the works of Julie Andreyev.
Andreyev’s art projects explore nonhuman agency through co-creation with companion dogs, trees, and currently with local and migratory birds. Her art project titled EPIC_Tom (2014-2020) was conceived and produced with Andreyev’s late dog Tom who provided the animated visuals and vocals for the performance. Her project titled Bird Park Survival Station is a collaboration with local birds, including a crow family whose territory includes her home in Vancouver. The Park, built on the roof of her home, uses methods of creative reciprocity. A computer system records sound and video of the birds and, in return, the Park provides fresh water, food, caching sites, nesting, shelter and perching features. The recordings are analyzed, and information is used to improve the Park’s affordances to assist the birds survive the climate emergency. Ruth K. Burke’s art projects include working primarily with her team of young oxen and her horse. Her artworks consider interspecies kinship, multispecies history, and more-than-human collaborations through earthworks, installation, sculpture, sound, and social practice. Her current focus is on interspecies labour and her artworks advocate that interspecies relationships do create legitimate social communities and should be considered as such in socially engaged art. Her work is informed by the lived experience of caring for animals and is nurtured by continued participation in farm work and animal husbandry. Her intention is not to romanticize the past, but to see it as messy and complicated and to imagine a future in which all beings are recognized for their contributions to the co-creation of our world. She is particularly interested in the capacity of art to push conflicting or violent histories up against one another in generative ways. Julie Andreyev has a PhD from Simon Frazer University, Canada, and is an Associate Professor in the Audain Faculty of Art, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, where she teaches New Media + Sound Arts. Her new book is titled Lessons from a Multispecies Art Studio: Uncovering Ecological Understanding & Biophilia Through Creative Reciprocity, Intellect Books, 2021.
Ruth K. Burke has an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Art, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a BFA in Art & Technology, cum laude, from Ohio State University, Columbus, USA. She is a teamster, farm laborer, professor, equestrian, and cultural worker. Straddling the practice of contemporary art and the field of human-animal studies, Burke has exclusively focused on human-animal relationships in her practice since 2015.
Selected works in the exhibitionExhibition guide
Near Dwellers as Creative Collaborators
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Part 1
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