Derail Platform for Art + Architecture

06/02/2022

A shout for this upcoming event taking place , our fav place to be in 🙌🦋🎯👩‍🦼👯‍♀️🐝🍃🤸🏽‍♀️
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05/29/2022

To all those specify trees for a living, or for anyone who loves and buys and grows and plants and protects trees. .. it’s time to blow your mind 🍄 New worlds, new words. 🐜🪳🐛

04/22/2022

April brings Namebine Giizis, the fourth moon of Creation, when the male and female sucker fish return to spawn after travelling to the spirit realm to receive cleansing techniques for this world. As they swim through the water, they purify a path for the spirits and cleanse the water beings. As life bursts forth within the stream and along its banks, we are reminded that we are partners in this experience called life—that the harmony within the stream can also exist within ourselves. ~ Ojibwe teaching.

Take a moment to pause in front of ‘Wisdom of the Universe’, a large and beautiful mural by Métis visual artist and author , reproduced with the artists permission at . In a statement to describe her work, Belcourt says: “Wisdom of the Universe features plants and animals that are listed in Canada as threatened, endangered or extinct... It reminds viewers of the interconnected nature of existence on this planet, and encourages us to abandon unsustainable paths in favor of an abiding relationship with Mother Earth. “

Originally commissioned by the AGO, the work is an important public artwork for the Picton community.

In lieu of payment for the use of the image, St. Andrew’s contributed to the Onaman Collective, formed in 2014 by Belcourt and other Indigenous artists to connect Indigenous youth to land, traditional knowledge, language and Elders through art and land-based activities. To support this project go to www.standrewspicton.com. or www.christibelcourt.com/the-onamin-collective/).

📸 of 11 M x 11 M mural reproduced by muralist Jason Rouleau and in 2018.

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Lunar Inspirations*, is our monthly practice to acknowledge and celebrate the changing seasons, the natural world, indigenous language, and contemporary art.

*Inspired by lunar fungi, a 2022 calendar created by ben and crummcrumm. Calendar sales support the important work of climat justice. Anishinaabemowin is a language spoken from Manitoba to Québec, with a strong concentration around the Great Lakes.

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04/22/2022

April brings Namebine Giizis, the fourth moon of Creation, when the male and female sucker fish return to spawn after travelling to the spirit realm to receive cleansing techniques for this world. As they swim through the water, they purify a path for the spirits and cleanse the water beings. As life bursts forth within the stream and along its banks, we are reminded that we are partners in this experience called life—that the harmony within the stream can also exist within ourselves. ~ Ojibwe teaching.

Take a moment to pause in front of ‘Wisdom of the Universe’, a large and beautiful mural by Métis visual artist and author , reproduced with the artists permission at . In a statement to describe her work, Belcourt says: “Wisdom of the Universe features plants and animals that are listed in Canada as threatened, endangered or extinct... It reminds viewers of the interconnected nature of existence on this planet, and encourages us to abandon unsustainable paths in favor of an abiding relationship with Mother Earth. “

Originally commissioned by the AGO, the work is an important public artwork for the Picton community.

In lieu of payment for the use of the image, St. Andrew’s contributed to the Onaman Collective, formed in 2014 by Belcourt and other Indigenous artists to connect Indigenous youth to land, traditional knowledge, language and Elders through art and land-based activities. To support this project go to www.standrewspicton.com. or www.christibelcourt.com/the-onamin-collective/).

📸 11 M x 11 M mural
reproduced by muralist Jason Rouleau and in 2018.

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Lunar Inspirations*, is our monthly practice to acknowledge and celebrate the changing seasons, the natural world, indigenous language, and contemporary art.

*Inspired by lunar fungi, a 2022 calendar created by and crummcrumm. Calendar sales support the important work of climat justice. Anishinaabemowin is a language spoken from Manitoba to Québec, with a strong concentration around the Great Lakes.

03/03/2022

Ziissbaakdoke giizas🌑
“The third moon of Creation is Sugar Moon. During this time, we are encouraged to balance our lives as we would our blood sugar levels. This moon teaches us the time of year when the sap is running for maple sugar harvest. This is celebrated as the Anishinaabe new year.” source:

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Lunar Inspirations*, is our own monthly practice to acknowledge and celebrate the changing seasons, the natural world, indigenous language, and contemporary art.

*Inspired by lunar fungi, a 2022 calendar created by Ben Watt Meyer and . Calendar sales support the important work of . Anishinaabemowin is a language spoken from Manitoba to Québec, with a strong concentration around the Great Lakes.

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In solidarity with Ukraine, we share this post from 🕊More than 20 works by artist Maria Prymachenko were destroyed in Ivankiv, a Ukrainian town that has been shelled by Russian troops. The works were being held at a local history museum that Ukrainian officials said was burned. Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the lost works "world-famous masterpieces." Go to bio to read more.⁠
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Image 1: Maria Prymachenko, 'Two-headed chicken,' 1977.⁠
Credit: Courtesy Ukraine Ministry of Foreign Affairs⁠

Image 2: Maria Prymachenko, ‘Old Man and Old Woman Carry A Turnip,’ 1983.
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02/03/2022

February brings … Mkwa giizis 🌑 ..”the second moon of Creation is Bear Moon, when we honour the vision quest that began in the fall. During this time, we discover how to see beyond reality and to communicate through energy rather than sound. This moon also gives us a special teaching about the birth of bear cubs” Source

As large-scale construction continues around Hart House Commons, a number of large tree-protection hoardings inspired Tree Protection Zone (TPZ), a public art project by eight Indigenous artists and their collaborators considering the preservation of life, water, and kin and how each is inextricably linked to the protection of trees. Organized by Sept 2021 - Spring/Summer 2022. Curated by Mik Migwans, Assist. Professor and Curator of Contemporary Indigenous Art, AMUT, and Maria Hupfield, Assist. Professor Indigenous Digital Arts and Performance, UofT.

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📸 2 Haudenosaunee artist Carrie Hill in front “Tewarontanonhna (We guard the tree)”, TPZ hoarding she reimagined using traditional basket-weaving techniques that she was taught by her aunt.

📸3 “Every Child Is Sacred”, TPZ hoarding by artist and musician to go out the unnamed indigenous children who never came home.

📸 4 “6 kilometres and 8,000 years long”, TPZ hoarding reimagined by Susan Blight, Anishnaabe artist, Couchiching First Nation.

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Lunar Inspirations*, a monthly practice to acknowledge and celebrate the changing seasons, the natural world, indigenous language, and contemporary art.

*Inspired by lunar fungi, a 2022 calendar created by Ben Watt Meyer and . Calendar sales support the important work of climat justice. Anishinaabemowin is a language spoken from Manitoba to Québec, with a strong concentration around the Great Lakes.

02/03/2022

02/03/2022

02/03/2022

February brings … Mkwa giizis 🌑
“The second moon of Creation is Bear Moon, when we honour the vision quest that began in the fall. During this time, we discover how to see beyond reality and to communicate through energy rather than sound. This moon also gives us a special teaching about the birth of bear cubs” Source

As large-scale construction continues around Hart House Commons, a number of large tree-protection hoardings inspired Tree Protection Zone (TPZ), a public art project by eight Indigenous artists and their collaborators considering the preservation of life, water, and kin and how each is inextricably linked to the protection of trees. Organized by Sept 2021 - Spring/Summer 2022. Curated by Mik Migwans, Assist. Professor and Curator of Contemporary Indigenous Art, AMUT, and Maria Hupfield, Assist. Professor Indigenous Digital Arts and Performance

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📸 2 Haudenosaunee artist Carrie Hill in front “Tewarontanonhna (We guard the tree)”, TPZ hoarding she reimagined using traditional basket-weaving techniques that she was taught by her aunt.

📸3 “Every Child Is Sacred”, TPZ hoarding by artist and musician to go out the unnamed indigenous children who never came home.

📸 4 “6 kilometres and 8,000 years long”, TPZ hoarding reimagined by Susan Blight, Anishnaabe artist, Couchiching First Nation.

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Lunar Inspirations*, a monthly practice to acknowledge and celebrate the changing seasons, the natural world, indigenous language, and contemporary art.

*Inspired by lunar fungi, a 2022 calendar created by Ben Watt Meyer and . Calendar sales support the important work of climat justice. Anishinaabemowin is a language spoken from Manitoba to Québec, with a strong concentration around the Great Lakes.

01/08/2022

As we scheme on next projects to foster new conversations about public space design, LUNAR 🌑* is a monthly practice to acknowledge and celebrate the moon (giizis) and its presence in the changing seasons, the natural world, indigenous language, and contemporary art.

January brings… Gichimanidoo-giizis | Great Spirit Moon 🌑

“The first moon of Creation is Spirit Moon, and is manifested through the Northern Lights. It is a time to honour the silence and realize our place within all of Great Mystery’s creatures.” (🙏🏼 www.kanawayhitowin.ca )

📸 Hedge crawl, dawn, frost, cold hands, Sinderby, England, 4 March 2014, 2014. Installation, Sculpture, Film, video, Site-specific, Digital video Running time: 8:22 minutes. From the exhibition ~ Andy Goldsworthy, Leaning into the Wind, Gallery Lelong & Co. , NYC
Oct 22 – Dec 5, 2015

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*Inspired by lunar fungi, a 2022 calendar by Ben Watt-Meyer and , with sales supporting the important work of .

Anishinaabemowin is a language spoken from Manitoba to Québec, with a strong concentration around the Great Lakes.

11/24/2021

Someone knows a good idea when they see it 🟠 .. Tree projection hoarding a sign of work coming soon (finally!!) for the extension southwards by +++ 🙌✨

10/30/2021

From the archives 🖤🙏 with