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Communal Meal and Performance Lecture with Lisa Hirmer
November 10, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Please join us for a communal meal—for humans and trees—and a performance lecture with Third Space’s visiting artist Lisa Hirmer, as part of her upcoming project “Mother Trees of Forests Not Yet Here”.
When: Friday, November 10th @ 7 PM
Where: 89 Canterbury Street, Suite 407
Cost: Free
About “Mother Trees of Forests Not Yet Here”:
“Mother Trees of Forests Not Yet Here” is a project about human timelines intersecting with trees’ arboreal ones. At the scale of human time, trees stand still, stretching past our lives in both directions. They carry in their woody tissues material memories of the world hundreds, sometimes thousands, of years before our time. In the same way, saplings of today will carry traces of our existence well past our lifetimes into the world belonging to future generations. Looking at it from the other end however, at the scale of deep geologic time, trees can cross continents…
“Mother Trees of Forests Not Yet Here” is also a project about material exchange between species, of elements moving from animal body to arboreal body and back then forth again. So-called “mother trees” are the oldest, largest trees in a forest that distribute resources to younger trees through underground networks of mycorrhizal fungi. The title also refers to an act of tending to what is young now, in anticipation of its future forms, and an act of care for who or what is not yet here—a material transmission to the future.
Finally, “Mother Trees of Forests Not Yet Here” is also a project about negotiating public space with an eye to the future, where telescoping time scales unmoor boundaries from their fixity. It asks how imaginaries might occupy collective spaces and become part of our daily routines across the city.
For more about Lisa Hirmer’s art practice visit:
Accessibility notes: Our main door on Canterbury Street is located up 4 stairs. Visitors can access a ramp from our ground-level entrance on Duke Street. Third Space is located on the 4th floor and can be reached by elevator. Washrooms are gender neutral. Please note: We’re sorry to say there are no washrooms in the building with safety grab bars or supports at this time. We’re working to improve this barrier.