Mini-Hibernation Project 2023
The Hibernation Project is back!!!!!! We’ve been gradually spreading out events over the course of the entire year (have you tuned in to our monthly sound art radio program? Did you visit our car show?) so we decided to conserve some much needed wintertime energy and program a short run of Hibernation events this year. It’s gonna be a load of fun, collaboration, and creative satisfaction, so we hope you’ll join us – as an artist or attendee!
Take a sec to brush up on our magical mandate, and then peruse our themes below and let us know if you’d like to participate!
Cover image: Logan Lape’s “Warming” box at The Hibernation Project 2022.
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TOBOGGAPALOOZA:
return of build-your-own toboggans!
Theme by Mike Tan
Sunday, March 5, 2023 // 2 – 4 pm
The return of the much-anticipated annual event where participants built-their-own toboggans and we went sledding together!! Every year, someone shows up with the weirdest thing you’ve ever seen used as a toboggan, and this year was no different. Thanks to these sweet folks for braving the weather and joining us for an afternoon of belly laughs and tomfoolery on the sledding hill!!
PARTICIPANTS:
Aiden & Mike Tan
Andrew Davidson
Audrey Lane Cockett
Blake O’Brien
Daniel & Maggie Schaefer
Maggy & Ellen Close
Logan
Sarah VS & Family
Vanessa Porteous & Friends
Caitlind Brown & Wayne Garrett
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ECHOLOGY:
environments of sound
Theme by Caitlind Brown & Wayne Garrett
Wednesday, March 8 on CJSW 90.9 FM
Our March theme is a fusion of ECHO and ECOLOGY, drawing from the lush interspace between sound & environment. Sound artists on today’s program draw from inspiration spanning field recordings, political commentary, sounds of ecosystems in crisis, the voice of rivers, echoes, and experimental instrumentation.
SOUND ARTISTS:
Akari Komura
Alëna Korolëva
Audrey Lane Cockett
Costas Frantzis
Fulya Uçanok
Jarek Lustych
Matt Rogalsky
Morten Poulsen
Rafael Diogo
Rigoberto Gallardo
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HOUSE OF CARDS:
cardboard architecture
Theme by Mark Erickson & Matthew Kennedy (Studio North)
March 19 at Caitlind & Wayne’s House
Cardboard is a miraculous building material, especially in the hands of artists and architects! Existing in the interspace between an architectural exercise and a sculptural intervention, HOUSE OF CARDS invited participants to construct their dream fort, sculpture, or micro-architecture out of cardboard inside Caitlind & Wayne’s house in Ramsay.
PARTICIPANTS:
Christina Milinusic
Clare M. Duckett, James Jensen, Louisa Jensen & Kaili Jensen
Kari Brawn & Gary McMillan
Khalid Omokanye & Maud Salvi
Mary Mazurek
Monica Ila
Studio North (Mark Erickson, Hayden Pattulo, Damon Hayes Couture)
Tiff Polancec
Caitlind Brown
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HOMEBODIES:
digital performances from the comfort of your own home(body)
Theme by Audrey Lane Cockett
Tuesday, April 4 on Zoom
What does it mean to be a homebody, especially in the wintertime? Many animals retract into their nests and dens, puffing out their feathers, hibernating, healing, or finally breaking into their stash of carefully collected snacks – and humans are no different. For those of us who find prolonged domestic time rich with creative possibilities and/or the manic need to make something, anything, these cold days and long nights at home can be filled with productive daydreams, bizarre projects, obsessive crafting, home recording, or the external expression of inside thoughts. HOMEBODIES invites participating artists to share their home-born projects through the medium of performance or video, beamed out across the internet into the homes of viewers near and far.
PARTICIPANTS:
Ana Phylactic (Kiki Barua)
Audrey Lane Cockett
Becca McDonald
Clare Duckett & Ernie
Ian Ward
Jonathan Dowdall
Monica Ila & her Yeti!
Phantom Orchid (Kira Sawatsky)
Ryan Bourne & Rebecca Reid (Hair Control)
Salome Says (Toni Hiatt)
Caitlind Brown & Wayne Garrett
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GATHER BY FIRE:
a backyard ritual sculpture burn
Theme for our friend Matthew Mark, who loved art, fire, and a little bit of wildness
Saturday, April 15 in Caitlind & Wayne’s Yard
Every year, we host a fiery art tribute to our late, great friend & fellow artist Matthew Mark Bourree. 
Participating artists make sculptures out of wood or cardboard, and we burn them together in a communal ritual ringing in the Spring. Hearkening to primal relationships, GATHER BY FIRE was named for an artwork by Sarah Smalik & Matthew Mark, and speaks to the great and mystical magnetism of people towards light, heat, and each other.
PARTICIPANTS:
Andrew Davidson
Audrey Lane Cockett
Clare Duckett
Daniel Barossa
Eric Heitmann
Hannah Doerksen & Palmer Olson
Jane Grace
Jennifer Bourree-Lebouthillier
Joanne & Jonathan MacDonald
Tiff Polancec
Wayne Garrett
Caitlind Brown
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SLOW REVEAL:
hidden beneath the winter sheath, released by thaw of Spring
Theme by Caitlind Brown & Wayne Garrett
Wednesday, April 12 on CJSW 90.9 FM
The work on our April program of EARS HAVE EYES arrived as an emergence – shaking off the cold and rust and loneliness of wintertime, and flowering outwards into the sun. The compositions on our first Spring show responded to the sprouting of nature after the winter subsides – the slow portrait of a person through documentary storytelling, the revealing of a place through field recordings, the unfolding of feelings through music…. each piece revealed something about emerging into a new awareness, environment, or context – as if melting through the snow.
SOUND ARTISTS:
Andrew Davidson
Audrey Lane Cockett
Cristian Estrella
Eryk Salvaggio
Masha Kashyna
Phantom Orchid
Simon Le Boggit
Sylvi macCormac
Tibor Donath
Co-hosted by Wayne Garrett & Caitlind Brown, edited by Caitlind.
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