#performingtheriver

[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]

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]

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