Performing Nature
NSCAD Lands and Parks
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Gallery 2
group exhibition
Frontcountry, backcountry, or comfort? What type of camping is for you?[...] spend the night in comfort, or get away from it all? From roughing it to home away from home, we have your camping style covered. (parks.canada.ca)
We book camp sites. We write stories narrated by expectations of what nature will give us in return. We review nature with stars (⭐⭐⭐) as though it were a place to visit, as if we were not encompassed within it. We conceive nature, cast it in a supporting yet yielding role, and operate under the belief that nature will comply - but just enough to maintain the illusion of wilderness. Bent, pressured, constrained too far and the curtains part. Heat waves, floods, wooly adelgid, drought, and forests on fire demand we question the very rivers, marshes, ground cover, canopies, and vistas we understood to be fixed and universal. In moments of ecological rupture is there space to dream of something new, to act and behave in new ways, to create new rituals for engagement with the land? What happens when we accept this invitation to revise our ways of learning with and from the land?
RECEPTION: Jair Armstrong, NSCAD Lands and Parks, Sara Wonnacott
Join us at 5:30pm on Monday at the opening reception for new exhibitions. Everyone is welcome!
