Townhall Sessions: lyfeboat prototype

Blackwood Gallery

Contribute your ideas to the design of a new floating community space!

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The Blackwood invites community input as we envision <a href="https://www.blackwoodgallery.ca/program/lyfeboat-prototype" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">lyfeboat prototype</a>, a fully-functional boat and outdoor education platform designed by artist sean procyk. Conceived as a gathering place for community education and place-based learning, a work of experimental architecture, and a self-sufficient floating sculpture, lyfeboat prototype will launch for community use in Summer 2022, with programming led by local artists, researchers, community organizers, knowledge-keepers, and educators of various backgrounds. In this townhall session, procyk and Blackwood staff will discuss the project development, and invite feedback and ideas from community members on design and programming considerations. We invite participants to consider how waterways, land use, and ecology resonate with our livelihoods in Mississauga, Peel, and the GTHA. We hope to learn: What are your connections to waterbodies? What themes, places, or activities could this project prompt you to explore? How can we strengthen the impact and reach of lyfeboat prototype?This virtual townhall will be held on Zoom. Session will be recorded (for organizational use only).RSVP required.ASL interpretation and live captions will be provided.About the Projectlyfeboat prototype is an artwork by land-based artist, architect, and playground-designer sean procyk that takes the form of a fully-operational boat. Informed by histories of land and water management surrounding Lake Ontario, legacies of settler-colonialism, innovations by off-grid communities, findings from critical citizen science, and realities of ecological resilience and adaptation, lyfeboat prototype is not only intended to be an innovative sculptural structure, but a platform for expansive interdisciplinary inquiry—a space from which to explore the tensions and possibilities inherent in living collectively, autonomously, and equitably on a damaged planet.About the Lead Artistsean procyk is an unsettler artist and playground designer. his practice focuses on creating immersive public engagements through site-specific installation, architecture and community workshops. Each project responds to its regional context, with a particular focus on the relationships that exist between landscape, community and ecology. procyk’s work explores processes of ecological succession, land-based disturbance, human alienation and collective action. he works primarily with found, reclaimed and natural materials. procyk’s works have been exhibited at Hamilton Artists Inc., Latitude 53, Stride Contemporary Art Gallery, Elemental Festival, Convergence Conference on Art and Technology in Banff, and Nuit Blanche Toronto.

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