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Courtesy of the Gallery.

Taking its name from something that whirls, coils, or spirals or whose form suggests such movement, and the concentric arrangement of a snail’s shell, Oxygen Art Centre is thrilled to present whorl, a public artist talk and contemporary art workshop featuring Nadia Chaney (Kanata, Canada) and Zoe Kreye (Vancouver, Canada). 

To begin the series, Chaney and Kreye will present an online artist talk on Saturday, April 1, 2023, from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM PST. The event will introduce the public and workshop participants to the artists and their respective practices. A short Q&A period will follow the talks, which will touch on the overlapping and divergent threads in their work. Free to attend, the public can register for the event through Oxygen’s website and EventBrite.

Following the artist talk, the whorl program presents two online workshops with the artists on Saturday, April 15^th and Saturday, April 29^th from 1:00 to 3:00 PM PST. Emerging and established artists are encouraged to register to attend both or an individual workshop by completing a Google Form via Oxygen’s website. A registration fee of $20 will be required to attend. 

Nadia Chaney is an arts facilitator, poet, and performer, whose recent research explores time through interdisciplinary collective reading practices. Her focus on relational attunement through musical improvisation, automatic drawing, and embodied synchronicities will be engaged in this workshop. Chaney’s current work is as the founder and caremaker of the Time Zone Research Lab, a non-local and nonlinear collective for arts-based research into the nature of time and temporality. Through her workshop, participants will be welcomed to the Time Zone Research Lab archive! 

The Lab uses an intuitive process called Web Walking to trip lightly through the recordings of 102 daylong conversations about Time and Temporality. Participants in Chaney’s workshop will punctuate the Web Walking with silence (for making) and elongate its strands with whatever thoughts, bidden and unbidden, occur to us. Chaney’s workshop will employ the art of deep listening and tentacular thinking.

Zoe Kreye is an interdisciplinary artist whose performance and installation work engages audiences in participatory and embodied happenings. Her focus on motherhood, grief, and the experience of loss in the body are activated through painting, tapestry, and ceramic works, alongside her somatic and bodywork practices. Kreye’s workshop will invite participants to engage in a series of movements to engage with drawing and sculpture through somatic practices. 

The workshops are two-hours in length each and provide participatory engagements with contemporary art discourses and practices to encourage non-linear curiosity in your creative approaches.

whorl is an Oxygen Art Centre contemporary art series that invites the public and artists of all stages and backgrounds to engage in intensive artistic mentorship on the topics of embodiment, somatics, and performance practice. 

The artist talk featuring Nadia Chaney and Zoe Kreye will take place on Saturday, April 1, 2023, from 1:00 – 2:30 PM PST (Zoom). Admission is free and everyone is welcome to attend. 

The workshops require a $20 registration fee and will be open to only twelve participants each. Nadia Chaney’s workshop will be offered on Saturday, April 15, 2023, from 1:00 – 3:00 PM PST. Zoe Kreye’s workshop will be offered on Saturday, April 29, 2023, from 1:00 – 3:00 PM PST. Registration will occur on a first come-first serve basis until filled.