Together, this panel of academic and artistic creators will use the lens of the witch and their practices to explore more ethical ways of relating to so-called “natural resources.” One facet of the witch figure is absorbed with listening to the knowledge of plants and water, which have been silenced by patriarchal colonial capitalist systems of world orderings. This form of listening finds its ears in experimentation with and away from academic approaches, and towards a suspension of disbelief.
Anne Harris is an artist and student of the School of Shamanic Woman Craft, based in Australia. With her art installation Unseen Herstory, she seeks to relate to the plants—and place—of Australia in a way that is different from colonial documentation of plants as mere objects.
Alana Bartol is a multidisciplinary artist and practicing water witch, who uses dowsing to examine industry practices and the reliability of information by cultivating a practice of listening to water. She explores this repurposing through her project, Orphan Well Adoption Agency, which assists people in adopting orphan wells.
Kimberly Skye Richards is a researcher, teacher, and creative practitioner who explores the roles witchery and absurdism play in Canadian theatre arts-activism. She will bring her expertise as a dramaturg and her passion for social and environmental justice to bear as she comments on the playful absurd in Alana Bartol’s Orphan Well Adoption Agency.
Please Note: This event will be recorded.
Together, this panel of academic and artistic creators will use the lens of the witch and their practices to explore more ethical ways of relating to so-called “natural resources.” One facet of the witch figure is absorbed with listening to the knowledge of plants and water, which have been silenced by patriarchal colonial capitalist systems of world orderings. This form of listening finds its ears in experimentation with and away from academic approaches, and towards a suspension of disbelief.
Anne Harris is an artist and student of the School of Shamanic Woman Craft, based in Australia. With her art installation Unseen Herstory, she seeks to relate to the plants—and place—of Australia in a way that is different from colonial documentation of plants as mere objects.
Alana Bartol is a multidisciplinary artist and practicing water witch, who uses dowsing to examine industry practices and the reliability of information by cultivating a practice of listening to water. She explores this repurposing through her project, Orphan Well Adoption Agency, which assists people in adopting orphan wells.
Kimberly Skye Richards is a researcher, teacher, and creative practitioner who explores the roles witchery and absurdism play in Canadian theatre arts-activism. She will bring her expertise as a dramaturg and her passion for social and environmental justice to bear as she comments on the playful absurd in Alana Bartol’s Orphan Well Adoption Agency.
Please Note: This event will be recorded.