Installation (still untitled) – This installation will consist of a series of new small objects that are part of my ongoing project Treelines – here and there. This project started in 2017 with the creation of representational small crocheted trees that have been placed on land and photographed in locations that have experienced extractive logging…
Don Chretien confirms participation in Broken Forests Fireweed/Flora do Fogo
Following upon my residency experiences in Yeonmisan Mountain Nature Art Park, Gonju, South Korea and the Broken Forests Poland 2024 residency on the border with the Ukraine, I will be researching the local mythology and ancestral knowledge of wildlife residing in the Serrado forests of central Brazil. From Indigenous knowledge keepers there and from Brazilian…
Quan Steele confirms plans for Brazilian Broken Forests Fireweed exhibitions
The works shared here are the result of hands-on, site-based research developed through my previous projects, including Broken Forests Action/Clearcut Reanimated in a woodlot near Jordan River, BC. (2024) and Mountain Island Air residency at Wells, BC. ( 2025). At the heart of my work is collaboration and interaction. I am interested in working alongside…
lwrds duniam confirms participation in BF Fireweed Flora do Fogo
WATA (firewitch) Engaging with the forest as kin, collaborator, and witness to colonial trauma, WATA (firewitch) would consist of site-specific sculptural assemblages and stream-of-consciousness ritual performances of ‘embodied territorial ancestral healing’, mediated through Afro-Indigenous Cosmologies in the region of Cerrado of Pindorama (so-called Brazil). Khipucamayoc: weaver of arboreal entanglements (2025) site-specific ritual performance and sculptural…
Mathias Reis curator/artist for BF Fireweed/Flora do Fogo 2026
Mathias Reis is a visual artist and photographer. Over the past ten years, his poetic research has focused on creating works in which environment and landscape play a fundamental role in their conception, often assuming a central presence. His approach begins with the presentness of the body in direct sensory relation with other life forms…
Valéria Scornaienchi joins Broken Forests Fireweed Brazil
My practice investigates modes of coexistence in times marked by ecological and social crisis. I am interested in how encounters between human and more-than-human beings can generate sensitive and ethical shifts within contemporary landscapes of ruin. I approach living as a collective verb — to live with, to make with, to think with, to imagine…
Paul Walde confirms participation in BF Fireweed
Building on my 2018 work Of Weather, Carry On (working title) is a series of stretched photographic prints, based on the size of standard carry-on luggage (22”x14”) that are adapted from footage taken while in residency in Brazil and feature a threatened aspect of the ecological systems found there. The images will be activated by…
Broken Forest Fireweed travels to Brazil
Broken Forests is an ever expanding network of artists who engage directly with forests affected by resource extraction. We currently have groups (pods) in Canada, Brazil, South Korea, and Poland. The Canadian pod is called Broken Forests–Fireweed and we have been working directly with the Brazilian pod since we gathered for two weeks in 2025…
Broken Forests Fireweed in Brazil
Very excited and happy to announce that Broken Forests Fireweed collective will be travelling south in mid-July to visit the forests of Minas Gerais, Brazil and to work with artists from the Broken Forests Brazil group to create exhibitions, performances and site-specific installations in various sites in São Paulo state. There is a new Broken…
Broken Forests Fireweed group announces:
A new webpage and Instagram site for an Artists Collaborative Project that was born at the Actions Supporting Forests symposium and residency at Island Mountain Arts in Wells, BC Click HERE 4 Broken Forests Fireweed NOTES from the SYMPOSIUM (as compiled by D. Wilson and N. Vieira subsequent to discussions held at Island Mountain AIR…