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Vancouver Artist Residency July 2011

July 25 - 29, 2011

Held in the wombspace of The Strathcona Art Gallery (STAG) we entered the labyrinth of gestation to emerge with the call for incubation, dreaming and napping. Have a look at our co-residency page.

women & wise

February 11, 2012

snippets of our saturday co-locations

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Retreat dolls

January 20, 2012

At the start of 2012 we gathered at Ingrid's home for a retreat where we shared stories, and made dolls.
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Retreat dolls

January 20, 2012

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Gestare Art Collective members 2012

January 20, 2012

Left to right: Medwyn, Nané, Cindy Lou, Ingrid, Barbara

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Co-Event with Cindy Lou Griffith

September 3, 2011

An art sharing event at The STAG on July 14, 2011 as Vancouver based videographer and visual artist Cindy Lou Griffith offered insights into the emergence of mystical/ghostlike figures invoking memory and loss in her artworkings and writings.

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Desert Labyrinth walked while at NAPAR

June 11, 2011

LABYRINTH WALK AND SOUNDING IN THE ROCKY DESERT

Franciscan Renewal Center, Tempe Arizona on January 21, 2011

Medwyn & Barbara

Photograph by Barbara

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Labyrinth center drawing

June 11, 2011

Sand drawing done during our sounding in the center of the labyrinth.

photographs by Barbara
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Arizona desert labyrinth walk

June 11, 2011

Barbara walking the labyrinth

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Gestare womb retreat

June 11, 2011

We gathered in Vancouver, BC, Canada for mini-co-creative retreat on Jan. 6, 2011 where Barbara, Nané and Medwyn entered the Gestare wombspace for a day of resonating threads and strings as we deepen into the rich tapestry of art, inquiry, scholarship and activism that is emerging in our matrixial co-encounters. We worked on the co-writing that is moving us towards expression of our work in the language and context of Ettinger's feminist co-relational theorizing, and recorded a group s...
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