Land Art Residency

Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett (Incandescent Cloud), Alia Shahab, Lane Shordee, and Nikki Martens

After visiting Empire of Dirt in the summer of 2021, Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett were invited to gather a small community of collaborators to return in Summer 2022 for a self-directed Land Art Residency for two weeks. This ad-hoc team of artists have worked together in various combinations for over 10 years and this residency became the cohort’s first formal project as a group of five. With a shared interest in complex environments, found materials, experiential art-making, and collaboration, the cohort utilized the land at EoD to experiment with site-responsive concepts, prototypes, and material research, ranging from sketches, to community conversations, to medium-scale earthworks, among others. Land Art Residency at Empire of Dirt was supported with a Canada Council research grant, authored by Caitlin Brown.