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a rawlings is a mineral, plant, animal, person, place, or thing. Also known as Dr. Angela Rawlings, they are a Canadian-Icelandic interdisciplinary artist-researcher who works with languages as dominant exploratory material. Their practice seeks and interrogates relationality between bodies—be they human, more-than-human, other-than, non. Meditating on languages as inescapable lenses of human engagement, rawlings’ methods over the past twenty years have included sensorial poetries, vocal and contact improvisation, theatre of the rural, and conversations with landscapes.
rawlings has an extensive solo and group performance and exhibition background. They have performed throughout North America, Europe, and Australia at festivals including Roskilde Festival (Denmark), Oslo International Poetry Festival (Norway), and Tectonics Music Festival (Iceland, Scotland). Their work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Dedee Shattuck Gallery (USA), Hafnarborg (Iceland), Hanstholm Fyr (Denmark), and Kunsthall Trondheim (Norway).
rawlings’ books include Wide slumber for lepidopterists (Coach House Books, 2006), Gibber (online, 2012), o w n (CUE BOOKS, 2015), si tu (MaMa Multimedijalni Institut, 2017), Sound of Mull (Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology, 2019). Their book Wide slumber was adapted to music theatre by Valgeir Sigurðsson and VaVaVoom (2014). Their libretti include Bodiless (for Gabrielle Herbst, 2014) and Longitude (for Davíð Brynjar Franzson, 2014). rawlings’ Áfall / Trauma was shortlisted for the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights (2013).
rawlings received their PhD from the University of Glasgow where they researched how to perform geochronology in the Anthropocene. In 2021-22, they are researching becoming-with whales in the climate crisis as a postdoctoral fellow with H.M. Queen Margrethe’s and Vigdís Finnbogadóttir’s Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ocean, Climate, and Society. rawlings also teaches at the Iceland University of the Arts in the MFA for Performing Arts and MA in Music (New Audiences and Innovative Practices). rawlings loves in Iceland.
Saving the world through evidence, knowledge, and inspiration! The Canadian Museum of Nature is Canada’s national museum of natural history and natural sciences, with roots dating to the mid 19th-century. The museum provides evidence-based insights, inspiring experiences and meaningful engagement with nature’s past, present and future. It achieves this through scientific research, a 14.6 million specimen collection, education programs, signature and travelling exhibitions, and a dynamic web site, nature.ca.
The museum is located at 240 McLeod Street, Ottawa.
A naturalist, conceptualist and multidisciplinary artist. Matt Ceolin was raised in Canada’s rural northern woodlands and has dedicated his life to learning from the complexities of the natural world. He lives and bases his studio practice on the land and in the forests of Algoma. His work is informed by an integrated and ongoing engagement with land, its complex ecologies and the entities within, and reflects his pursuit of a more visceral sensibility of their perception and portrayal. His visual work has been exhibited at galleries in Canada, the United States, and Iceland.
Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and a writer with a background in plant sciences, microbiology, ecology, and the history and philosophy of science. He received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. He is a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam, works with the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN), and sits on the advisory board of the Fungi Foundation.
Merlin’s research ranges from fungal biology, to the history of Amazonian ethnobotany, to the relationship between sound and form in resonant systems. A keen brewer and fermenter, he is fascinated by the relationships that arise between humans and more-than-human organisms. He is a musician and performs on the piano and accordion.
Jordan Scott is an internationally acclaimed poet and children’s author. His debut children’s book, I Talk Like a River (illustrated by Sydney Smith) by Holiday House / Neal Porter Books, was a New York Times best Children’s Book of 2020. I Talk Like a River is translated into nineteen languages and was the recipient of the recipient of the American Library Association’s, Schneider Family Book Award, which honors authors for the artistic expression of the disability experience. The book has also won an International Literacy Association Children’s Book Award, that recognizes newly published authors who exhibit exceptional promise in the children’s and young adults’ book fields. I Talk Like a River was also nominated for the 2021 Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize (BC and Yukon Book Prizes) and the Governor General’s Literary Prize for Young People’s Literature. Scott’s second and third books of children’s literature are slated for publication in 2022 and 2024 through Holiday House / Neal Porter Books. Scott is also the author of four books of poetry: Silt (Newstar Books) Blert, DECOMP, and Night & Ox (all from Coach House Books). Blert, which explores the poetics of stuttering, is the subject of two National Film Board of Canada projects. Scott’s other books include Clearance Process (SMALL CAPS), and Lanterns at Guantánamo (Simon Fraser University). Both books treat his experience after being allowed access to Guantanamo Bay in April 2015. Scott was the 2015/16 Ellen and Warren Tallman Writer-in-Residence at Simon Fraser University and has read from his work throughout North America and Europe. In 2018 Scott was the recipient of Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize, given to a mid-career poet in recognition of a remarkable body of work, and in anticipation of future contributions to Canadian poetry. For Greystone Books, Scott is currently working on I Stutter; I Lie: a memoir of dysfluency, power, and truth.
