#ecofeministart

[jenniferirelandsplace]

Slow Life - on going series - finding lines of kinship with the lives we cohabit with Photographic documentation of an on going performance series that speculates on human/plant relationships and wonders: if in light of recent research - like that of Dr S. Simmard (UBC) which demonstrates how plants engage socially, recognize kin, share resources and communicate - as well as the theoretical writing of Dr D. Haraway - if plants and humans are more similar than we previously thought then how can we more meaningfully cohabit and share our world? This series forefronts body and shared experiences/needs between the artist and their own house plants while digging a little deeper and asking what our moral obligation is to the plants we cohabit with, especially common house-plants that are non-indigenous to the lands we inhabit, entwined with colonial history and practices, and depend on us for survival? JkIreland, 2021, on going #plantlife, #plantlife🌱, #slowlife, #plantlove #kinship #kinshipcare, #climatechangeart, #mortgarsonplantasia, #domesticated, #colonialroots, #anthropoceneart, #contemporaryart #conceptualart, #collaborationart  #ecofeminist, #ecofeministart #climateart, https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl6ttXiPCdh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[clairemacp-blog]

In this article Jade Wildy discusses the history and current manifestations of ‘ecofeminism’. With both the feminist and environmental movements gaining momentum in the 1960s, a distinct relationship between their principles emerged and became known as ecofeminism, which in turn has become evident in artistic practice. Wildy articulates the differences between the two branches of ecofeminism – social and cultural. Whereas cultural ecofeminism addresses the connections between women and nature present throughout history and world cultures (e.g. the concept of Gaia or the womb as a source of creation), social ecofeminism speaks to a perceived need for women to be the main actors in environmentalist work.

Highlighting the work of many artists including Ana Mendieta, Agnes Denes, Lynne Hull and Jacquie Brookner, the article develops a comprehensive picture of ecofeminist works, as well as where they are situated in the cultural/social ecofeminist continuum.

[jenniferirelandsplace]

With the River, #50 of on going series, The Bow River, 2020-21 This picture shows the silt and muddy waters of the spring swells in the river. It reminds me of Donna Haraway's ideas in her recent book 'Staying With the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chuthulucene' "Trouble is an interesting word. It derives from a thirteenth-century French verb meaning 'to stir-up', 'to make cloudy, 'to disturb. We - all of us on Terra - live in disturbing times, mixed-up times, troubling and turbid times. The task is to become capable, with each other in all of our bumptious kinds, of response. Mixed-up times are over flowing with both pain and joy - with vastly unjust patterns of pain and joy, with unnecessary killing of ongoingness but also with necessary resurgence. The task is to make kin in lines of inventive connection as a practice of learning to live and die well with eachother in a thick present. Our task is to make trouble, to stir up potent response to devastating events, as well as to settle troubled waters and rebuild quiet places. In urgent times, many of us are tempted to address trouble in terms of making an imagined future safe, of stopping something from happening that looms in the future, or clearing away the present and the past in order to make futures for coming generations. Staying With the trouble does not require such a relationship to times called the future. In fact, staying with the trouble requires learning to be truly present, not as much vanishing pivot between awful or edenic pasts and apocalyptic or salvific futures, but as mortal critters entwined in myriad unfinished configurations of places, times, matters, meanings." D. Haraway, From the opening paragraph of the introduction to the book. Staying With the Trouble, 2016 To all the viewers of the series, thank you for sharing this journey with me, I so sincerely appreciate all your kind feedback. #climatechange, #climatechangeart, #climatechangeartist, #performingtheriver, #performanceart, #treaty7, #treaty7personhood #contemporaryart, #conceptualart, #bowriver #bowriveralberta, #bowrivercalgary, #yycart, #feministart, #ecofeminist #ecofeministart, #bowriver https://www.instagram.com/p/CQJ2tiPBPAC/?utm_medium=tumblr

[jenniferirelandsplace]

Touching the River 25th in the series The Bow River, 2020/21 #climatechange, #climatechangeart, #climatechangeartist, #performingtheriver, #performanceart, #contemporaryart, #conceptualart, #bowriver #bowriveralberta, #bowrivercalgary, #yycart, #feministart, #ecofeminist #ecofeministart, #bowriver, #anthropoceneart, #climateart, #river, #riverside, #riverlife, #touchingtheriver, #rewilding https://www.instagram.com/p/CKAVCorBTyQ/?igshid=sjq0sr28o0cn

[jenniferirelandsplace]

these mittens are really holding up "February, 2021" #mittens, #covidlife, #climatechange, #climatechangeart, #contemporaryart, #conceptualart, #feministart, #ecofeminist #ecofeministart, #anthropoceneart https://www.instagram.com/p/CMP2HPDB54V/?igshid=nbgmpytlb55a

[jenniferirelandsplace]

Touching the River. 24th in the series. The Bow River, 2020/21 #climatechange, #climatechangeart, #climatechangeartist, #performingtheriver, #performanceart, #contemporaryart, #conceptualart, #bowriver #bowriveralberta, #bowrivercalgary, #yycart, #feministart, #ecofeminist #ecofeministart, #bowriver, #anthropoceneart, #climateart, #river, #riverside, #riverlife, #touchingtheriver, #rewilding https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ9Y8vChyXu/?igshid=17m3cf2xry7y6

[jenniferirelandsplace]

this stone series was on exhibition @sunshinecoastarts The exhibition is titled Matters of Scale and features many works from both @jennifer.brant and myself. In this group of works I was focusing on human relationships with rock and stone, and movement through/across land - while working to trouble and unpack my own colonial-working-towards-de-colonial relationships with land and in particular; stone. This series was made with stones found on the sides of highways between my home in and the West Coast. These stones are dipped in bee's wax tinted with natural pigments (Earth Pigments from Maiwa). Massively warm thanks to all the good people at the Sunshine Coast Arts Center and my collaborator Jennifer Brant. #stones #rocks #canadian rockies #erraticlove #anthropoceneart #contemporaryart #conceptualart #collaborationart  #ecofeminist #ecofeministart #climateart #rockfrictionlove #rockart (at Sunshine Coast Arts Council) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZI2JnZrZ_R/?utm_medium=tumblr

[jenniferirelandsplace]

🪨 now showing at the Sunshine Coast Arts Council 🪨 link in bio 🪨 This is a video still from the video I made for my current exhibition at the Sunshine Coast Arts Council. I spent a beautiful week earlier this month in Sechelt installing this collaborative exhibition titled Matters of Scale, with my colleague and friend @jennifer.brant at the @sunshinecoastarts gallery. For this group of works I focused on human relationships with rock and stone while working to trouble and unpack my own colonial-working-towards-de-colonial relationships with land and in particular for this exhibition; stone. In a strategy of relationship nurturing, I gathered stones from the sides of highways between the west coast and the prairies as I moved through this land so often to see and share time with kin. With these stones I made: large stone rubbings on silk in Revelstoke BC a sound scape with the stones rubbing together - massive thanks to @chadvangaalen for his support with recording and sound engineering stone impression drawings on recycled paper with clay, natural pigments and graphite stone portraits of the gathered stones painted directly on the walls of the gallery with clay and natural pigments stone sculptures with the gathered stones, bee's wax and natural pigments a series of drawings of the Burgess Shale critters- drawn to scale with clay, compost and graphite lastly this 5 minute video with an erratic from here in Treaty 7 land, Mohkinstsis Thank you for reading this 💛 #stones #rocks #canadian rockies #erraticlove #anthropoceneart #contemporaryart #conceptualart #collaborationart  #ecofeminist #ecofeministart #climateart #rockfrictionlove #rockart (at Sunshine Coast Arts Council) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVtOubqhnfS/?utm_medium=tumblr

[jenniferirelandsplace]

The Exhibition is up! I spent a beautiful week in Seshelt installing an setting up this collaborative exhibition with @jennifer.brant in the @sunshinecoastarts gallery. The exhibition is titled Matters of Scale and features many works from both Jennifer and I. Over the next week or so I will be sharing some images from the exhibition. Focusing on human relationships with rock and stone (in this time when human activity on Earth is traceable in the stone) while working to trouble and unpack my own colonial-working-earnestly-towards-de-colonial relationships with land and in particular; stone, for this group of works I made large stone rubbings on silk, and a sound scape with stones rubbing together (massive thanks to @chadvangaalen for his support with recording and sound engineering). I also made some stone impression drawings, stone portraits, some stone sculptures (these comprising of stones who have generously agreed to come on this art adventure with me, I gathered the stones from the sides of highways between the west coast and the prairies as I move through this land so often to reach family and friends). Lastly, I also made a 5 minute video with an erratic from here in Treaty 7 land. Thanks to Jennifer Brant for friendship founded on kindness and collaboration founded on shared dedication to nurturing relationships with land. Thanks to the Sunshine Coast Arts Council for seeing the potential and value in mine and Jennifer's work and making space for us to share our work in your vibrant community and beautiful arts center. Thanks to family and friends for your commitment to kindness and care and your support to me and my arts. I'm so incredibly lucky to have such a community of love and wonder. #stones #rocks #canadian rockies #erraticlove #anthropoceneart #contemporaryart #conceptualart #collaborationart #ecofeminist #ecofeministart #climateart #rockfrictionlove #rockart (at Sunshine Coast Arts Council) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVef63nsG7A/?utm_medium=tumblr

[jenniferirelandsplace]

Last post for 'With the River' this one is dedicated to friendship, Bow River - 2020-21 for conversation that flow as fast, as clear and healing as the river itself for time shared that can't be measured for listening and stillness together while life rushes on Thank you I'm grateful to be here in this Treaty 7 land, and in this time of Reconciliation, I am sending my love to this land, it's original people's, to our shared turbulent present and our future. 🧡 Thank you to the river for teaching me so much over this past year, all your gifts, all your many changes, and thank you to all of you who have shared this with me. #climatechange, #climatechangeart, #climatechangeartist, #performingtheriver, #treaty7, #treaty7personhood, #contemporaryart, #conceptualart, #bowriver #bowriveralberta, #bowrivercalgary, #yycart, #feministart, #ecofeminist #ecofeministart, #bowriver, #anthropoceneart, #climateart, #river, #riverside, #riverlife, #withtheriver, #touchingtheriver, #rewilding, #friendship https://www.instagram.com/p/CQpJ6YLBgyz/?utm_medium=tumblr

[jenniferirelandsplace]

Touching the River An on going series. The Bow River, 2020 #climatechange, #climatechangeart, #climatechangeartist, #performingtheriver, #performanceart, #contemporaryart, #conceptualart, #bowriver #bowriveralberta, #bowrivercalgary, #yycart, #feministart, #ecofeminist #ecofeministart, #bowriver, #anthropoceneart, #climateart, #river, #riverside, #riverlife, #touchingtheriver, #rewilding https://www.instagram.com/p/CHvrnhahm8K/?igshid=1ai90mwz7515f

[jenniferirelandsplace]

"our bones were made for this conversation" from the poem "listen, belived" by Canadian poet & singer songwriter Clea Roddick This line reminds me of my inherited responsibilities to reconciliation and environment. Recently, in a work presented through The New Gallery, I read this poem aloud to the river. Thank you Clea Roddick Thank you to all the wonderful people at The New Gallery @the_new_gallery Thank you Treaty7 lands and people I'm grantful to be a Treaty 7 person. Thank you to the river This work is posted on The New Gallery's website. #artistrun, #canadianart, #onlineexhibition, #thenewgallery, #@the_new_gallery, #treaty7 #climatechange, #climatechangeart, #climate change artist, #ecu_climate_action #contemporaryart, #conceptualart #yycart, #fineart, #ecofeminist #ecofeministart #anthropoceneart, #climateart, #river, #inheritance, #responsibilitytoland, #bowriveralberta, #bowrivercalgary, #bowriver, #riverside, #riverlife, #touchingtheriver https://www.instagram.com/p/CCK6utuJk8B/?igshid=1fta31fh2r7kn

[jenniferirelandsplace]

RePost: from The New Gallery online exhibition with Jennifer Brant and myself *Works are shared online with new works being added through the duration of the exhibition. The show is titled: "in the long grass like the ocean, where the ocean used to be" This reading list was compiled by Jennifer Brant and myself to highlight many of the ideas and voices that have shaped and inspired our research based practices. "Jennifer Brant and Jennifer Ireland draw on their respective interdisciplinary practices to collaboratively investigate and re-envision de-colonial relationships with land, environment, neighbours, kin and the more-than-human." It is a honour to work with Jennifer Brant collaboratively to make works that are informed by our similar and complimentary research and methodologies. Thank you Jennifer. Thank you to The New Gallery for celebrating and giving space to our work. #sculpture, #contemporaryart, #conceptualart #plantart, #thenewgallery, #collaborationart #yycart, #contemporaryart, #fiberart, #thenewgallery, #collaborationart #yycart, #fineart, #ecofeminist #ecofeministart #anthropoceneart, #climateart, #artistrun, #canadianart, #onlineexhibition, #climatechange, #climatechangeart, #climatechangeartist, #ecu_climate_action (at The New Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAtz0ptJ8MO/?igshid=o6oof46ppw0s