Performance
Performances for The Mending Ground took place in the Ancient Forests of Eden Grove and Avatar Grove on unceded Pacheedaht territory in partnership with Eden Grove Artist in Residence Program. The two performances "Harvest" and "Gather" engaged ritual responses (rather than spectator focused events) of presence and reflection with the trees. Both performances are indebted to Anishinaabe biologist and Matriarch Robin Wall Kimmerer's advocacy for "The Honourable Harvest", and question what it means to harvest, gather, labour and engage with economics, looking to the forest as a model for revisioning systemic colonial ideologies of economic growth.
Harvest
Ode to Matriarch Robin Wall Kimmerer
"Harvest"; Connie Michele Morey; Cut wool sweater & embroidered companion species; Avatar Grove; June 2021; Technical support: David Holloway
Gather
Ode to Matriarch Robin Wall Kimmerer
"Gather"; Connie Michele Morey; Cut wool sweater, wool socks & embroidered companion species; Eden Grove; June 2021; Technical support: David Holloway