INCUBATION

Channel Migration

March 10 – 16

CHANNEL MIGRATION is a 12-station Audio Walk co-created by Sydney Lancaster and Geoff Martin, that will be presented at Open Ears Festival in late May this year. By gathering “raw materials” (field recordings, video, and still photos) the artists will work with them to explore the potential of taking thjs project in a performative direction. This incubation will workshop parts of the narrative for the audio walk, presenting them in real time, with video and field recordings as part of the reading experience. This opportunity will explore the way our discreet voices/approaches interact (on the page, and in performative contexts). Time in this incubation will be spent exploring possibilities and refining the work as the artists consider how multidisciplinary works/projects can speak to (and/or encourage) relational ways of thinking about the environment and climate change.

Sydney Lancaster (they/she) is a multidisciplinary artist and writer whose practice considers the intersections of place, history, memory, and identity. They are interested in the constructed nature of narratives of place and history within which human understanding is situated. What is left out of these stories is as important as what is given voice. What becomes ‘real’ or ‘true’ changes over time, exposing gaps, fragments, and shifts in (mis)understanding. Her approach is rooted in the senses, and in physical/temporal relation to the environment. They work in video, photography, sound, printmaking, sculpture and installation, durational performance, and words. Sydney holds a BA in English from the University of Alberta, and an MFA in Studio Practice from Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, and she has shown in artist-run and public galleries across Canada, and in the US and UK. They have also co-authored 2 books: Boundary|Time|Surface: a record of change (with Dr. John Waldron – essays and poetry), and Learning Their Names: Letters from the Home Place (with Jannie Edwards – epistolary poetry cycle).

IG: @eyenhand
Bluesky: @sydneylancaster.bsky.social
FB: https://www.facebook.com/eyenhand
Website: https://sydneylancaster.ca/

Sydney Lancaster (they/she) is a multidisciplinary artist and writer whose practice considers the intersections of place, history, memory, and identity. They are interested in the constructed nature of narratives of place and history within which human understanding is situated. What is left out of these stories is as important as what is given voice. What becomes ‘real’ or ‘true’ changes over time, exposing gaps, fragments, and shifts in (mis)understanding. Her approach is rooted in the senses, and in physical/temporal relation to the environment. They work in video, photography, sound, printmaking, sculpture and installation, durational performance, and words. Sydney holds a BA in English from the University of Alberta, and an MFA in Studio Practice from Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, and she has shown in artist-run and public galleries across Canada, and in the US and UK. They have also co-authored 2 books: Boundary|Time|Surface: a record of change (with Dr. John Waldron – essays and poetry), and Learning Their Names: Letters from the Home Place (with Jannie Edwards – epistolary poetry cycle).

IG: @eyenhand
Bluesky: @sydneylancaster.bsky.social
FB: https://www.facebook.com/eyenhand
Website: https://sydneylancaster.ca/