Baekdudaegun to Boreal – Canada-Korea Eco-Art Installation Exchange Project
The Nipissing Region Curatorial Collective (North Bay, Ontario, Canada) and the Yatoo Collective in South Korea are sending three BF Eco-Artists Group artists from Canada to forest sites in Korea starting May 10th, 2025. The Canadian artists (Dermot Wilson, Don Chretien and Ernest Daetwyler) will create works with three chosen Korean artists. In June, the same three Korean artists will travel to Northern Ontario and create Eco-artworks in designated sites in the White Bear Old Growth forest near Temagami. Korean Artists participating in this project are from Gongju city in South Korea. Very excited to work with Soonim Kim, Eungwoo Ri and Seunghyun Ko in Korea and back in Canada in June.
As the BFG expands to include this talented group of Korean Eco-Artists and begins to interact with forests in Europe, Asia and South America, we are certain that this project will lead to expanded Broken Forests Art Projects in these sites and that Korean and Taiwanese artists will be participating in future projects. Since 2018, the BFG has been studying the SIMILARITIES between cultures, artists and forests. We see art, culture and language, not as barriers or isolating factors (silos), but as directly contributing to new ways of seeing, understanding and perceiving our environments. With these new perspectives all of our artist participants can create art that inspires us all to value nature and the forest and to connect spiritually and personally with the outdoors.
This project will also bring international exposure to endangered forest sites, and ignored wilderness areas that may be threatened by unregulated industry and development.
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This Project is funded through the Canada Korea Co-Creation Fund and by the Canada Council for the Arts.