The Hibernation Project
2025 THEMES
For a variety of reasons, The Hibernation Project events of 2025 happened primarily off-season, spanning a Summertime pool-party, a parking lot based intervention, and our monthly sound art radio program.
HIBERNATION SEASON
Every year, we host a fiery art tribute to our late, great friend & collaborator, 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:
Audrey Lane Cockett
Caitlind r.c. Brown
Daniel Barossa
Dale Meyer, Veronica Murphy, and Sadie
Eric Heitmann
Joanne MacDonald
Keith Rodger
Wayne Garrett
IDLE WORSHIP
In May 2025, 11 artist-driven vehicles toured the sprawling parking lots of Calgary/Mohkinstsis, transporting strange, subversive, and satirical artworks into the far reaches of our fair city, located inside an unassuming motorcade of cars. Stops included exotic parking lots like the Walmart at Westbrook Mall, Crossroads Market, the Pick-n-Pull, Fish Creek Library, the Safeway at North Hill Mall, the Bass Pro at Deerfoot City, and Burnt Toast Studios / Idle Eyes / Congress Coffee in the Greenview Industrial District. At each stop, different people visited the exhibition – some on purpose, many by accident. The exhibition was designed to be encountered in the everyday, unromantic setting of car infrastructures across Calgary/Mohkinstsis.
ARTISTS:
Helen Young
Jennie Simm
Khalid Omokanye
Logan Lape
Nikki Klawuahboe & Lane Shordee
Patrick Hamilton
Ramin Eshraghi-Yazdi
Rebecca Reid & Ryan Bourne
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Teresa Tam
Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett
PHOTOGRAPHERS:
Mike Tan
Elyse Bouvier
Allison Seto
Caitlind Brown
ORGANIZERS: Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett
SUPPORTED BY: Calgary Arts Development
SONIC SPLASH
In late August, we collaborated with EMMEDIA to throw a rare summertime Hibernation Project event. A combination of spacey music, performance art aquasize, pizza, and all-ages fun, our celebration of sound and summer took over Stanley Park Pool for an evening of excellent watery weirdness.
BAND: Wayne Garrett, Keith Rodger, and Patrick Hamilton
PERFORMANCE ART LEADER: Desiree Nault
PRODUCERS: Caitlind r.c. Brown (The Hibernation Project) & Janira Moncayo (EMMEDIA)
CO-PRESENTED BY: EMMEDIA & The Hibernation Project
RADIO SHOW
EARS HAVE EYES is a sound art radio program airing the second Wednesday of each month on CJSW 90.9 fm in Calgary/Mohkinstsis, Golden Co-op Radio on Ktunaxa Territory in Beautiful British Columbia, and New Adventures in Sound Art – NAISA Radio, in South River, Ontario. Each episode is available by podcast after the airing date.
EARS HAVE EYES is an off-season offshoot of The Hibernation Project.
HOSTS: Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett
CURATOR & EDITOR: Caitlind Brown
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