June 29, 2019
Visual Arts Mississauga at Riverwood, 4170 Riverwood Park Ln., Mississauga
Events are FREE and open to the public. All are welcome.
Presented as part of The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea.
un/learning: reimagining the timber farmhouse
sean procyk
June 29, 2019
Visual Arts Mississauga at Riverwood, 4170 Riverwood Park Ln., Mississauga
Events are FREE and open to the public. All are welcome.
Exploring the complex histories of agrarian settlement in Ontario, an artist project by sean procyk invites local publics to work with him to reimagine the function of the traditional timber barn. Reflecting on how settlement and settler-colonialism have paved the way for regimes of land use that lead to disturbance-based ecologies, this program pulls resource management, environmental education, and suburban identity into conversation with each other. The central program activity will involve collectively assembling a pop-up presentation and learning space using reclaimed barn timbers. Following the assembly of the learning space, sean procyk will be in conversation with Matthew Wilkinson, historian at Heritage Mississauga, about regional environmental histories, agriculture, and settler-colonialism.
Presented as part of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge public programming series, part of The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea.
sean procyk is an unsettler artist and playground designer. his practice focuses on creating immersive public engagements through site-specific installation, architecture and community workshops. Each project responds to its regional context, with a particular focus on the relationships that exist between landscape, community and ecology. procyk’s work explores processes of ecological succession, land-based disturbance, human alienation and collective action. he works primarily with found, reclaimed and natural materials. procyk’s works have been exhibited at Hamilton Artists Inc., Latitude 53, Stride Contemporary Art Gallery, Elemental Festival, Convergence Conference on Art and Technology in Banff and Nuit Blanche Toronto.
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.
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