TRAction expands leadership team
TRAction is pleased to announce that it is expanding its leadership. After five years of being co-led by settler artists Melanie Kloetzel and Kevin Jesuino, TRAction has expanded as a collective and will now be co-led by Chantal Chagnon, Sandra Lamouche, Melanie Kloetzel and Kevin Jesuino. As a climate arts collective that has both learned […]
VINES
VINES is a site-adaptive practice and performance created by Melanie Kloetzel (kloetzel&co.) with dramaturgical support from Brandy Leary (Anandam Dance). Using state-based and durational approaches, the work explores how the human body can corporeally adapt to urban spaces by rigorously embodying growth patterns from climbing plants. In dialogue with Indigenous concepts of relationality, VINES considers what […]
Drum-making Workshop
Chantal Chagnon is an expert drum-maker who enjoys helping others craft Indigenous drums. Well-known for her teaching skills, Chantal has been sharing her knowledge of drum-making in community for over fifteen years. Through her 2-3 day drum-making workshop, participants learn to cut and soak the hide for the drum, to shape and string the drum, […]
Hoop Dance Workshop
Originating in Anishinaabe culture and now practiced in various Indigenous communities across Turtle Island, hoop dance is a healing dance that explores ideas of circularity, relationality and responsibility. Learning the hoop dance offers a way for a dancer to accept and face their challenges. In working with the hoops, a dancer can find spiritual, physical, […]
Just Breathe, Okâwîmâwaskiy
Just Breathe, Okâwîmâwaskiy (Just Breathe, Mother Earth) is a collaborative project led by Cree artist Sandra Lamouche and settler artist Melanie Kloetzel. Just Breathe, Okâwîmâwaskiy offers intimate groups of 25-30 individuals an immersive journey into and out of climate anxiety. Using tactics of disorientation, satire, and state-based tasks for audience-participants, Just Breathe, Okâwîmâwaskiy presents audience-participants with […]
Final Artist Immersion Session – Metabolizing Human Wrongs
What might it take to un-numb to the pains and pleasures of our entanglement with non-human beings and the systems by which they are subjected to extraction and extinction? In what ways can artistic practices be an enzyme that supports our digestion of difficult and complex emotions which arise as we increasingly face Climate and Nature Emergency? What are practices that might help us tend to, metabolize and compost the affects of this wit(h)nessing?
In this session participants will be invited to engage with some of the embodied exercises developed by artists integrating the 2022/23 PWIAS artist digital residency who have been investigating practices to expand the limited sensorium of modernity and develop sources of stamina for the slow and challenging work of moving beyond common patterns of simplistic solutions, remaining grounded and attentive to what it means to be human within a wider web of relations.
The experiential session will include practices created by Alysha Seriani, Andréa Monteiro, Cadence Planthara, Carolina Duque, Clifford Berrien, Kimberly Skye Richards, Reed Jackson, Melanie Kloetzel, Naser Al Sughaiyer, Willow Cioppa and Sidi Chen, throughout a nine months online program, a series of 6 artistic practice immersion sessions and week-long in person residency curated by Dani d’Emilia.
Space is limited to 20 participants.
Climate muse: Eco-artists hope to inspire in the face of crisis
Climate Justice and Artistic Practices
Discover the ways artistic practices are making an impact in how we talk about climate change, implement climate action, and imagine a healthy future. Understand ways artistic practices can bring together diverse voices, stories and experiences to support transformative conversations,
support community, influence wider cultural conversations on climate change to advance climate justice and empower people to take action.
Speakers include: Chantal Stormsong Chagnon, Alana Bartol, Nikki Martens and Melanie Kloetzel