Overburden Panel Discussion: Documenting Change

Oxygen Art Centre and Kootenay Gallery of Art

Overburden Panel Discussion on Documenting Change: Place-based knowledge, resource extraction and shifting climate patterns

Oxygen Art Centre in Nelson BC and Kootenay Gallery of Art in Castlegar BC announce a unique collaborative group exhibition. Overburden: Geology, Excavation and Metamorphosis in a Chaotic Age will take place in two art centres in two rural communities, with exhibition schedules as follows: Oxygen Art Centre: 1 June - 10 July, 2021, Kootenay Gallery of Art: 18 June - 21 August, 2021.A weekend of special online programming featuring artist panels, performances and workshops will be held on Saturday June 19 and Sunday June 20, 2021. All events and workshops are free and open to the public. To register for events, please visit www.overburden.ca. Programming events will be recorded and accessible online following the live events. Panel 1: 1:00-2:30 Documenting Change: Place-based knowledge, resource extraction and shifting climate patterns. Artists Tara Nicholson, Carol Wallace, Sarah Nance, and Gabriela Escobar Ari. More information on each artist’s work found at: www.overburden.ca About the exhibition:Overburden is the topsoil and vegetation that is removed before mining takes place. It also references our earth’s current condition and the psychological burden that many people experience in the face of climate and other ecological changes. Overburden brings together a group of artists whose shared concerns address geology and its relationship to shifting climate patterns and resource extraction, in both a regional and global context. Artists respond to mining histories in the Kootenay area, arctic ice melt that is uncovering paleontological data, mining reclamation practices and glacial seismic events. While some artists bear witness to harmful extraction practices and an ever more unstable world, others seek to find caring, embodied and imaginative ways to come into relationship with the geologic material under our feet and interwoven into our everyday. Through these artistic inquiries, the artists included in Overburden both disrupt and mimic methods of scientific research, and explore embodied, performative and material responses. What are the ways in which the earth is pushing back, disintegrating and metamorphosing in response to our actions? What role might artists play in articulating our anthropocentric paradigm and how can we begin to shift our thinking to one in which interdependence and care are central?Artist Biographies:Gabriela Escobar Ari is a Bolivian Canadian photographer based in Fernie, BC. Her background in Archaeology and Social Studies influences her work and her interest in human consciousness. Ari’s Latin-American heritage motivates some of her personal projects, which reflect concepts like gender, identity, regional culture and history. Gabriela Escobar Ari is passionate about film photography, vintage alternative photographic methods, and conservation and restoration of old photographic materials. She is one of the lead photographers of the archaeological collection of the Ethnography National Museum in Bolivia (MUSEF). Since moving to Canada Ari completed the Photography Program at SAIT (Calgary) and works as a freelance photographer. Her work has been published in academic journals, documentaries, and travel magazines in Canada, France, United States and Bolivia.Sarah Nance is an interdisciplinary artist based in installation and fiber. She works within the chasm between geologic processes and human experience, locating their entanglements in order to explore a layered perception of place. Nance is currently Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Art at SMU in Dallas, TX. She previously held professorships in Fibres &amp; Material Practices at Concordia University (Montréal, QC) and Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA). Recent exhibitions include Galerie Octave Cowbell in Metz, France;The Factory in Djúpavík, Iceland; Galerie FOFA in Montréal, QC; 1708 Gallery in Richmond, VA; Antenna in New Orleans, LA; TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary, AB; Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum in San Antonio, TX; Kathrin Cawein Gallery in Forest Grove, OR; and the Pensacola Museum of Art in Pensacola, FL. Past awards include the La Soupée Project Grant (Galerie Diagonale), and the Fountainhead Fellowship (VCU). Nance has participated in artist residencies in Reykjavík and Skagaströnd, Iceland; much of her research continues to be based in Iceland and coastal regions of Canada and the US.Tara Nicholson has travelled throughout the Arctic to document climatology, exploring the often-blurred edges between science fiction and science. Nicholson has exhibited internationally, most recently at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Modern Fuel Artist-run Centre and the Burnaby Art Gallery. She has attended residencies including the climate-centered, ‘Earthed’ at the Banff Centre for the Arts (2018), the Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany (2013) and the Empire of Dirt, BC (2021). Nicholson teaches at the University of Victoria and holds degrees from Ryerson University (BFA), University of British Columbia (Post Dip) and Concordia University (MFA). She has received ongoing funding from Canada Council for the Arts and the BC Arts Council to produce site-specific works examining links between activism and climatology. In 2020, she embarked on her PhD at UBC Okanagan to produce a body of exploratory landscape studies linking escalating changes within the Anthropocene. Carol Wallace’s current work explores ideas and imagery informed by her former work as a geologist. Her art training started as a summer field geology student in 1988. Field notes were filled with drawn landscapes from ridgetops in the mountains of Northern BC, the Yukon and Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic. In the office, back when maps were made by hand, Carol continued her drawing training creating and finalizing geologic maps, later published by various government agencies. After earning her geology degree at the University of Calgary, Carol settled in Nelson, BC starting a consulting company providing services in geomorphology in the Columbia Basin. Drawing and map-making continued in this work, until 2014, when she decided it was time to work full time in her studio as a visual artist.

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