Gestare Art Collective

Welcome to the on-line presence of Gestare Art Collective. These pages offer a portal for you to enter into the matrixial borderspace(s)* of our collaborative and creative art processes.

Gestare is Latin for the verb "to carry" in the womb. As women committed to living as process artists in relationship with each other, the earth, cosmos and all its inhabitants, we honour and practice gestation as a form of inquiry and pedagogy. 

Conference Presentations

Revitalizing Mind/Body Through Nap-Ins: Art and Feminist Pedagogy. Canadian Society for the Study of Education. Women and Education University of Victoria. Victoria British Columbia, Canada. June 1 - 5, 2013.

Gestating Relational Artworkings Through a Matrixial Lens
Barbara Bickel, Nané Jordan & Medwyn McConachy
Panel presentation on the Book (Re)Imaginging Social Research: Narrative, Arts-based and Post Approaches to Inquiry. Edited by J. Burdick et al

 Writing in Process

Wombwalks: Connecting with the m/Other
Book chapter in Creating together: Participatory, community-based and collaborative arts practices across Canada.
Barbara Bickel, Nané Jordan & Medwyn McConachy
Co-editors Diane Conrad and Anita Sinner.
Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Waterloo, ON. Canada.

The Thread of a Dream: Inviting Re-attunement through a Nap-In
Barbara Bickel & Medwyn McConachy
Article for the Journal of Curriculum & Pedagogy.

Gestating Relational Artworkings Through a Matrixial Lens
Barbara Bickel, Nané Jordan & Medwyn McConachy
Book chapter in (Re)Imaginging Social Research: Narrative, Arts-based and Post Approaches to Inquiry. Edited by J. Burdick et al

July 2013 Co-residency
Co-Residency will take place at Artscape Gibraltar Point in the summer. Stay tuned.  See our Co-Residency page to find out more about our past Co-Residencies.
 

A spontaneous Dakini* emerged from the spirits of the women as we unfurled our dreamscroll of  Nap-In dreams, evoking the untamed female freedom of this traditional Tibetan Buddhist yogini form.

(Like a trickster or the Fool in a Tarot deck, the dakini releases blockages in the energy field and melts frozen patters, so that the door of the mind is suddenly ajar and something new can enter. Dakinis are often connected to the phenomena of synchronicity and inexplicable coincidences of fate.
http://www.matrifocus.com/BEL09/noble.htm

*Dakini is a Tibetan word meaning "sky goer" or "sky-walking female"..
The Double Goddess - Vicki Noble

photograph by Barbara

News

Nané has been in Paris, France (June 2012) studying at the Cité Universitaire Internationale and attended the Partie de Lectures avec Héléne Cixous, Journé d'études internationale at the Mainson H. Heine.

Ingred was on a pilgrimage to Berlin and spent time at the memorial to the murdered Jews. See her ancestral journey.

Nané's art and Gestare have been blogged about at placentabenefits.info

Contact us

gestareartcollective@gmail.com