Please join us Fri. Oct. 4 at 6PM for a live poetry reading by Colleen Coco Collins as part of the exhibition Radicant currently on view. Coco collaborated with artists Miranda Bellamy & Amanda Fauteux in this video installation by writing, and performing, thirteen poems in response to a collection of Brendel botanical models composed in a virtual environment. The Brendel Company (Berlin late 1880s-1920s) made detailed models of plants and fungi from papier-mâché, glass beads, gelatin, and feathers. They were purchased as teaching tools by institutions worldwide. The written works are layered poems  investigating histories across time, plant mysteries and experimental revelations, personal narratives, universal growth, and the phenomenons of decay and rejuvenation.

Colleen Coco Collins [she/they] is an interdisciplinary artist of Irish, French, and Odawa descent, working in songwriting, performance, poetry and visual arts. Her writing, music, and art practice centers on temporality, presumptions of sentience, subversion, rhythm, gesture, geographies, biophonies, frequencies, the ouroboric, the peripatetic, love and the polyglottic. She lives littorally in rural Port Greville, Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia amidst crows, coyotes, grackles, bees, humpback, lichen and fox.