Water (Deshkan Ziibi) is the fifth in a series of 12 annual events. Each year, the event focuses on a word of the 12-word phrase « You And I Are Water Earth Fire Air Of Life And Death, » and activates it in myriad ways. This year’s event will willingly wade the time away, in eddies, in sinks, in drains, in backwaters, through root systems, capillaries, infiltrating, inundating our, as Isabelle Stengers put it, « humid brains. »
Water (Deshkan Ziibi) features Kate Armstrong, Bagida’waad Alliance @bagidawaad, Dickson Bou @dicksoncbou, Penelope Cain @penelope.cain, Shannon Cooney @shannonrcooney, Tom Cull, Melissa General @melissgeneral, Farheen Haq @farheenhaqart, Sharmistha Kar @sharmistha_kart, Claire Liu, Patrick Mahon @pmahonstudio, Thomas Mahon, Brady Marks @furiousgreencloud, Laura Millard @millard.laura, Valerie Mills-Milde @millsmildewriter, Eli Nolet @elinolet, Racquel Rowe @kellrowe, Jon Sasaki @jon.sasaki, Lou Sheppard @shep_shape, Quinn Smallboy @qsmallboy7, Jordyn Stewart @jordynstewart, Mark Timmings, Paul Walde @paulwalde, Michelle Wilson @michellemargaretwilson, and more.
Water (Deshkan Ziibi) is presented by the artLAB Gallery @westernuvisualarts in partnership with Art Gallery Of Hamilton @at_theagh, Doris McCarthy Gallery @dmg_utsc, Forest City Gallery @forestcitygallery, Futura Resistenza @futura_resistenza, Glenfiddich Artists-In-Residence, McIntosh Gallery @mcintoshgallery, NAISA @naisanorth, NIMAC, Other Sights @other_sights, SASAH @westernusasah, Thames Art Gallery @thamesartgallery, and WalkingLab.
artLAB Gallery, Western University, London
Curated by Christof Migone @christofmigone, Sheri Osden Nault @so_nault, and Ruth Skinner @rskins.