How to Talk With Plants: Ray Fenwick

Friday 1 June, 2018
Bar Opens: 7:00 pm
Performance: 7:30 pm
Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University

The Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University is pleased to announce a performance by Winnipeg artist Ray Fenwick, Friday 1 June at 7:30 pm.

Fenwick will present How to Talk With Plants, a performance that centres on a person whose starting point is faith in the possibility of communicating with plants. Not just talking to them, but with them; a kind of first contact with a new species. His belief is tested, and questions begin to pile up, but despite mounting doubts he refuses to lose faith, urging the audience to do the same. “If we figure this out,” he says, “we figure everything out.”

Set amongst a menagerie of live plants, the work switches form restlessly, addressing the audience and the plants in equal measure. Using admittedly absurd means, the work teases out the awkwardness and impossibility of our own attempts to make contact—not with plants, but with each other.

Ray Fenwick is an interdisciplinary artist working with performance, video, sound and typography. His work is an often playful attempt to explore unusual relationships with language, voice, and communication.

Admission to the performance is free. All are welcome to attend and encouraged to BYOP (Bring Your Own Plant) to the performance.

This event is made possible with the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

For more information please contact the Owens, at 506-364-2224 orowens@mta.ca.