Camp Kit Sharing Sessions Lisa Myers

September 21, 2018

CN Rail, Avonhead Rd. S of Royal Windsor Dr., Mississauga

Events are FREE and open to the public. All are welcome.

Presented as part of The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea.

Lisa Myers, Camp Kit Sharing Sessions, as part of Shore Lunch. Presented at The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea, 2018. Photo: Yuula Benivolski.
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Camp Kit Sharing Sessions
Lisa Myers

September 21, 2018

CN Rail, Avonhead Rd. S of Royal Windsor Dr., Mississauga

Events are FREE and open to the public. All are welcome.

Camp Kit Sharing sessions provides participants with a kit to help attain the sustenance from this place. The kit offers food-shares and directions for contemplating our surroundings.

 

Presented as part of The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea a site-specific exhibition, public program series, and publication platform designed to expand perspectives on climate change through artistic practices, cultural inquiry, and political mobilization.

Biography

Lisa Myers is an independent curator and artist with a keen interest in interdisciplinary collaboration. Myers has an MFA in Criticism and Curatorial Practice from OCAD University. Since 2010, she has worked with anthocyanin pigment from blueberries in printmaking, and in her stop-motion animation. Her participatory performances involve sharing berries and other food items in social gatherings, reflecting on the value found in place and displacement; straining and absorbing. She has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions across Canada and her writing has been published in a number of exhibition publications in addition to Senses and SocietyC Magazine and FUSE. She is an Assistant Lecturer in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. Myers is a member of Beausoleil First Nation and she is based in Port Severn and Toronto.

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Acknowledgments

The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea is presented by the Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto Mississauga in partnership with the City of Mississauga.



This is one of the 200 exceptional projects funded in part through the Canada Council for the Arts’ New Chapter program. With this $35M investment, the Council supports the creation and sharing of the arts in communities across Canada.