Nature often serves as a backdrop or a provocation for our work as artists, but only human-nature is actually present in the ultimate manifestation of our work. How do we correct this imbalance? Galleries, theaters, and screens manufacture representations of the non-human world in empty climate-controlled studios, often with no windows. What leads to this sterility and how does it reinforce our disconnection from the more than human world? What are the underlying ideologies embedded within the stories we tell about nature, and the attitude with which we form an audience or play a role?

As species extinction and climate collapse threatens our lives increasingly each year, can we challenge ourselves as creators, not only to speak of the greater life that supports us through metaphor, but to go beyond metaphor, to be direct agents in the regeneration and protection of the ecologies that sustain us? In addition, can we enlist the more-than-human world as a teacher and collaborator? Can we de-center the human within our artistic lives and learn from the wild world itself how to become more resilient creators? What would it be like to put the non-human world at the center of our practice? 

This residency seeks to incubate artists who are interested in forging and deepening their own path towards an original ecological-centered artistic expression. We will work in community to devise, play, and nourish each other in building a regenerative creative biome.