ReMediate

Installation, poetry and performance
Guelph, 2014 - Ongoing
 

ReMediate is a gesture of care that imagines reciprocity with a degraded landscape. My continued engagement with this work has been a focus of my artistic practice for over a decade.

During the spring of 2014, I began an ongoing collaboration with Pollination Guelph and Anna Bowen to make a quilt for the decommissioned Eastview Landfill in Guelph. The 2,800 sq ft quilt is made from hand made paper and embedded with native seeds I collected from local wild and restored places. The quilt was sewn together entirely on site with public participation. As it disintegrates, the paper is yielding a garden -- habitat for threatened pollinators like solitary bees and wasps, bumble bees, butterflies, moths and other indigenous species. My collaborator Anna Bowen produced a series of poems that document the layered history of the landfill site and the making of the quilt.

We also created a body of work documenting the project through photography, poetry, video, in-gallery participatory papermaking and writing installations as well as a book.

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ReMediate was generously funded by the Ontario Arts Council, the Guelph Community Foundation's Musagetes Fund, The City of Guelph through The Elevator Project and the Grand River Conservation Authority.

Exhibition History
Gladstone GrowOp, The Gladstone Hotel Toronto 2016. 
ReMediate, Art Gallery of Guelph (Boarding House Gallery), Guelph 2016. 
ALT/FUTURES: Eco_Hack, Video installation on Mary Mattingly’s Swale, Brooklyn New York and at Archipiélago Art Space, Taipei Taiwan, 2016.

Photos: Anna Bowen, Robert Kingsbury, Janet Morton, Christina Kingsbury and Scott McGovern
Video: Christina and Robert Kingsbury, shot by Scott McGovern