nikbeeson

Notes on ‘Maintaining Poise in the Uncertainty of Complexity’ Workshop

Nancy Stark Smith - Contact Improv

View ‘Maintaining Poise in the Uncertainty of Complexity’ Workshop description POISE to be balanced or suspended; to be ready, a state of readiness; equally weighted, weight bearing, good ‘bearing’. A migratory translibrium. ComplexityStructural complexity vs/and Perceptual complexityI’m approaching complexity as an ‘experience’ we have, rather than an ‘objective phenomena out-there’.“Complex systems are defined by entangled […]

Notes on ‘Maintaining Poise in the Uncertainty of Complexity’ Workshop Read More »

Miijmaakijige: ‘bait’ and co-evolution in indigenous natural culture

Yesterday evening I attended my course on Pollinator Stewardship (which I’m attending as part of a grant to create an educational pollinator garden through PollinateTO, Project Swallowtail, LiveGreen & the City of Toronto) (check out our garden here!). This week was focused on the perspective of Indigenous peoples on pollinators which was pretty fabulous. Some

Miijmaakijige: ‘bait’ and co-evolution in indigenous natural culture Read More »

Featured Track: Overshadow

Lyla Rye commissioned me to do the music for her video installation ‘Overshadow‘ for the 2016 In/Future Festival (run by Art Spin with Small World Music) which opened the long abandoned Ontario Place. Here’s a note I wrote for ‘Overshadow’:“It features the remixing the of Dolores Claman’s theme music for Ontario Place (Dolores is renowned

Featured Track: Overshadow Read More »

And so it grows…

I took this photo of a tree branch pinioned into a piece of metal fence.It was left on the floor of a house I was doing construction in, and I obviously found it very striking. The branch appears to have been pierced – as if on a torture rack – by the metal. It looks

And so it grows… Read More »