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.
Tag: performance art
IDLE WORSHIP 2025: artists & route
On May 24 & 25, 2025, a mobile exhibition of 11 artist-driven cars will tour the sprawling parking lots of Calgary/Mohkinstsis, transporting strange, subversive, and satirical artworks in a motorcade of cars. IDLE WORSHIP features pick-up truck performances, back-seat sculptures, and automotive installations designed in response to our car-centred city, featuring an all-star cast of local artists.
GATHER BY FIRE
A backyard ritual sculpture burn (for Matthew Mark)
Participants:
Audrey Lane Cockett
Caitlind r.c. Brown
Daniel Barossa
Dale Meyer, Veronica Murphy, and Sadie
Eric Heitmann
Joanne MacDonald
Keith Rodger
Wayne Garrett
+ a Christmas Tree contribution from Matthew Waddell & Laura Anzola
FEASTING
Episode 34 of EARS HAVE EYES
FEASTING: delicious sounds for hungry ears
ARTISTS:
Alëna Korolëva
Berk Yağlı
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Brigitte Haas
Clare Duckett
Evamaria Müller & Thomas Catlaw
Stijn Demeulenaere
Toby Kaufmann-Buhler
Hosted by Caitlind Brown and Wayne Garrett
The Hibernation Station 4
Week 7 of 7: public access TV for a live studio audience!
PARTICIPANTS:
Clare Duckett
Hairbrush
Jennifer Crighton
Jack Bride
Kiki Barua (Massimo!)
Matthew Waddell
Patrick Hamilton and Fiona McTaggart
SCN Swampy Communications Network
Caitlind Brown and Wayne Garrett
HEAT SEEKING
Week 6 of 7: a hide & seek slow dance
PARTICIPANTS:
Clare Duckett
Desiree Nault
Eric Heitmann
Rebecca Reid
Ryan Bourne
Wayne Garrett
Caitlind Brown
& many dancers!
UNLIKELY SPREADFELLOWS & WRECK AGE
Week 4 of 7: dinner and a show!
Wreck Age Performer:
Max Maxwell
Founder of the Feast:
Alex Mitchell
PARTICIPANTS:
Alex Mitchell
Audrey Lane Cockett
Geneviève Paré
Kari Brawn & Gary McMillan
Kora-Lee Morris & Collaborator
Caitlind Brown & Wayne Garrett
& many more attendees!
GATHER BY FIRE at EMPIRE OF DIRT
Week 2 of 7: a residency & ritual sculpture burn on Arrow Mountain
Participants:
Elaine Weryshko
Jim Wallis
Larry McDowell
Lisa Benschop
Marnie Temple
Nikki Emerson
Palmer Olson
Veronica Verkley
Wayne Garrett
Caitlind r.c. Brown
EARS HAVE EYES Live!
Week 3 of 7 of the Hibernation Project 2024!
Episode 25 & 26 of EARS HAVE EYES
EARS HAVE EYES: a listening party for sound art on the radio – LIVE!
Sound Artists:
Audrey Lane Cockett
Chris Dadge
Christina Milinusic
Hermitess (Jennifer Crighton)
Keith Rodger
NUM (Milad Bagheri & Maryam Sirvan)
Hosted by Caitlind Brown and Wayne Garrett
TOBOGGAPALOOZA
Week 1 of 7: build-your-own-toboggans!
Participants:
Aiden Tan
Andrew Davidson
Audrey Lane Cockett
Blake O’Brien
Brad Hawkins
Caitlind Brown
Carter & Sasha White
Chad & Edward Saunders
Clare Duckett
Foon Yap
Jeremy, Nelize, Arlo & Elliot Gignoux
Mike Tan
Rory Allen
Wayne Garrett
and more!
SOUND DEATH (Part 2)
Episode 18 of EARS HAVE EYES
SOUND DEATH: endangered, delicate, and increasingly rare
Sound Artists:
Beni Brachtel
Domenico De Simone
Fabian Lanzmaier
Jacob Kirkegaard
Mishka Henner
Tomer Baruch
Una Walker
Hosted by Caitlind Brown and Wayne Garrett
GATHER BY FIRE
Week 6 of 6: a backyard ritual sculpture burn (for Matthew Mark)
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
HOMEBODIES
Week 4 of 6: digital performances from the comfort of your own home(body)
Participants:
Ana Phylactic (Kiki Barua)
Audrey Lane Cockett
Becca McDonald
Clare M. Duckett & Eeeeeernie!
Ian Ward
Jonathan Dowdall
Monica Ila & her Yeti!
Phantom Orchid
Ryan Bourne & Rebecca Reid
Salome Says (Toni Hiatt)
Caitlind Brown & Wayne Garrett
Theme by Audrey Lane Cockett
HOUSE OF CARDS
Week 3 of 6: cardboard architecture
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
Theme by Studio North
TOBOGGAPALOOZA
Week 1 of 6: return of build-your-own-toboggans!
Participants:
Aiden & Mike Tan
Andrew Davidson
Audrey Lane Cockett
Blake O’Brien
Caitlind Brown & Wayne Garrett
Daniel & Maggie Schaefer
Maggy & Ellen Close
Logan
Sarah VS & Family
Vanessa Porteous & Friends
Themes of Hibernation 2023!
The Hibernation Project is back!!!!!! Because we’ve been gradually spreading our events out over the course of the entire year, we have a short and sweet pop of wintertime magic for you 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!
Check out all our themes in this handy blog post.
HAUNTING ME, HAUNTING YOU
Episode 9 of EARS HAVE EYES, a sound art radio program on CJSW 90.9 FM
HAUNTING ME, HAUNTING YOU: ghostly, resonant, creepy, and echoing
Sound Artists:
Arash Akbaki
Eileen Mc Loughlin
Håkan Jonsson
Johannes Gerard
Lauren Wong
Nohemi Zavala
Rafael Diogo
Stephen Lilly
Hosted by Wayne Garrett & Caitlind Brown
IDLE WORSHIP: mobile exhibition
In late September, 8 artist-driven cars became moving micro-galleries, welcoming visitors to experience a series of strange, immersive, whimsical, playful, absurd, and satirical artworks – each tucked inside its own automobile. Traveling in a law-abiding motorcade, IDLE WORSHIP responded to Alberta’s car-centric culture in a slow rally from familiar place to place – traversing the Calgary landscape as so many commuters do daily, but with an utterly different intention. Pithy and playful, IDLE WORSHIP was equal parts community project, commentary, and intervention in plain sight.
IDLE WORSHIP
IDLE WORSHIP is a mobile exhibition of art and performance in cars touring across the parking lots of the greater Calgary / Mohkinstsis area on Sept 24 and 25, 2022. Intended to subvert the car-centric culture of Alberta and utilize the “non-site site” of the car interior, IDLE WORSHIP is part community project, commentary, and intervention in plain sight.
IDLE WORSHIP is a spinoff of The Hibernation Project.
All the Thank Yous!
We’ve reached the end of The Hibernation Project 2022! Thank you to the artists and participants who joined us on this wild adventure! This year, we once again navigated the shifting waters of a global pandemic to facilitate 11 Hibernation Project events spanning digital space, tobogganing hills, radio waves, hockey rinks, community centres, and our…
THE HIBERNATION PROJECT 