We are delighted to be a partner in the SciArt Symposium organized by SAW. Through a series of wonderful conversations with SAW we have helped assemble the panel:
Walk on the Wild Side: Interspecies Collaboration in Art
Moderator by our Managing Director, Remco Volmer and including:
Aleksandra Bajde, a Slovenian composer-performer, cultural manager, and Phd candidate in political science, creates semi-improvisational multidisciplinary and multigenre performance art exploring expressive possibility and multidisciplinary interaction.
https://aleksandrabajde.com/
Cheryl L’Hirondelle is an interdisciplinary artist, singer/songwriter, Governor General Award recipient, and CEO of Miyoh Music Inc. L’Hirondelle approaches audio, video, and multi-sensory experience from a contemporary Cree worldview encouraging dynamism, inclusion, and the presence of nehiyawewin and other Indigenous languages.
http://www.cheryllhirondelle.com/bio.html
Tina Tarpgaard is a dancer, choreographer, and founder of the cross aesthetic dance company Recoil Performance Group, and 2 time winner of the National Danish Performing art Award. Tarpgaard examines object functionality and the links between performers and space,often integrating both human and nonhuman software and bio-art performers.
https://recoil-performance.org/about/
Dr Jenniffer Willet is the director of the Bioart lab INCUBATOR and Canada Research Chair in Art, Science and Ecology at the University of Windsor, and founder of BioARTCAMP. Willet examines interspecies interaction, biotech, the body, and representation, to challenge the divisions between art, biological science, and technology.
https://gallery.iotainstitute.com/collections/jennifer-willet
For more information on the symposium check it out at SAW’s website here.
You can watch more on Cheryl L’Hirondelle’s work on interspecies communication in the Ideas section here on our website.