Welcome to the on-line presence of Gestare Art Collective. These pages offer a portal for you to enter into the matrixial borderspaces* of our collaborative and co-creative art processes. Our artworking is visual, textural, vocal, performative, moving, ephemeral, place based and time/space based. Our workings are sourced from our shared engagement with the divine feminine and gestated in the labyrinthine container of wombspace.*Ettinger, Bracha L. (2006) 'Matrixial Trans-subjectivity' in Theory, Culture & Society 23(2-3): 218-222 |
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The Gestare Art Collective began to share our art and life practices with each other in Vancouver in 2007. Currently living in four different geographic locations we continue to share our individual practices and develop collaborative projects through digital communication and residencies. During summer residencies at Artscape Centre for the Arts, Toronto Island, Ontario, Canada, Gestare members have gathered for periods from one to five weeks, to collaborate, co-create and gestate our art together.  The wind was wild and the waves were strong surging on the beach of Toronto Island on June 24, the eve of the G20 summit. As we threw our voices into the night, we heard the keening cry of the Erinyes, daughters of the earth, priestesses of the night, those who avenged crimes against the natural order. (http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Erinyes) |
Events  Gestare members are nearing the completion of our 2010 summer residency at Artscape, Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts on Toronto Island. Our labyrinth workings have included an Ocean Day healing for the Gulf of Mexico, an invocation of gaia's womb wisdom for the G20 summit, and a cosmic birthing ritual and menstrual blood offering. The studio installation at Artscape is an honouring and celebration of our work and completes the circle for the 2010 Gestare residency. |
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