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Worried Earth: Eco-Anxiety and Entangled Grief
Erica Mendritzki, Curator Melanie Zurba, Assistant Curator

Feb 4 - Mar 4, 2023

Port Loggia Gallery, 1107 Marginal Rd.

Group exhibition

Worried Earth: Eco-Anxiety and Entangled Grief is an art exhibition and affiliated program exploring how worry about climate change and ecological collapse is seeping into our lives and dreams, mixing with other fears and anxieties, and entangling with personal experiences of loss. In this ecosystem of grief, art is a place for picturing and shaping bad feelings, including bad feelings about the very act of making art. Each gesture of making is weighed against the desire to do no harm—and the impossibility of a harmless human life within the context of our extractive capitalist system. We grieve our own existence, as well as our eventual demise.

The works in this exhibition sit with and in this grief. They also sing of the ways that grief can open us up. We become capacious, raw, and changeable. We can follow our grief towards wilder and deeper feelings, towards greater empathy for the other beings with whom we share the planet, and towards and into the rhythms of life and death.

Worried Earth features the work of artists Connie Chappel, Luke Fair, Laura Findlay, Natalie Goulet, Maureen Gruben, Jenine Marsh, Kuh Del Rosario, and Xiaojing Yan.

The exhibition is supported by the New Frontiers in Research Fund, and is part of an interdisciplinary research project on eco-anxiety and climate change-related grief. This research project is led by Co-Principal Investigators Melanie Zurba (Dalhousie University) and Erica Mendritzki (NSCAD University) with collaborators Andrew Park (University of Winnipeg), Roberta Woodgate (University of Manitoba), David Busolo (University of New Brunswick), and Lisa Binkley (Dalhousie University). The work is also supported by Research Associate Polina Baum-Talmor, and research assistants and graduate students: Lily Barraclough, Sara Boyd, Morgan Brimacombe, Luke Fair, Natalie Goulet, and Bryanne Lamoureux.

Opening reception: Worried Earth: Eco-Anxiety and Entangled Grief

Saturday, Feb 4, 2:00pm Saturday, Feb 4, 4:00pm / NSCAD Port Campus, 1107 Marginal Rd.

Join us for the opening reception of Worried Earth: Eco-Anxiety and Entangled Grief at the Port Loggia Gallery (NSCAD Port Campus).

Online Artist Talk: Xiaojing Yan

Wednesday, Jan 25, 1:00pm Wednesday, Jan 25, 2:30pm / Online - Zoom

Online Artist Talk: Xiaojing Yan
Wednesday, 25 January at 1pm AST

Artist Talk: Natalie Goulet

Monday, Feb 13, 1:30pm Monday, Feb 13, 2:30pm / D500

Artist Talk: Natalie Goulet
Monday, 13 February 2023, 1:30pm

Artist Talk: Kuh Del Rosario

Friday, Feb 3, 11:00am Friday, Feb 3, 12:00pm / Bell Auditorium

Artist Talk: Kuh Del Rosario
Friday, 3 February 2023, 11am

POSTPONED! Panel Discussion: Worried Earth

Thursday, Feb 16, 4:30pm Thursday, Feb 16, 6:30pm / Dalhousie University, Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building; Room 1028

POSTPONED!  Unfortunately this event has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances.

Artist Talk: Jenine Marsh

Wednesday, Feb 15, 2:00pm Wednesday, Feb 15, 3:00pm / D500

Join us for a talk with artist Jenine Marsh.

Distorted and damaged photograph, with predominantly black areas, as well as medium dark blue, orange and white.
Natalie Goulet. A Brief Respite From Fear, 2019.
2019 Graduation exhibition installation. Small drawings and found objects are on the wall next to a textile hanging.

The Anna Leonowens Gallery Systems is a public exhibition space within NSCAD University, presenting professional exhibitions by established artists alongside graduating student exhibitions.

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