Wht-trSH PROJECT

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Did you know that there is a long tradition of walking as an art form? However, walking has become problematized due to having a foothold in early practices of Euro-colonial exploration, appropriation, development, and industrialization of lands not one's own. So how can Non-Indigenous creatives, tourists, and residents walk together in a way that gives back time and space to human and more-than-human bodies?

Reclaiming and refocusing the derogatory saying of white-trash to reference waste as a colonizing force, not unlike the five white gifts/lies of flour, sugar, dairy, lard, and salt given to Indigenous communities during the formation of reserves and reservations in North America, this performative and interactive project acknowledges how the shininess of mass-produced objects and their packaging disguise multiple ills contained within their material bodies that wreak havoc on human and more-than-human conditions.

Supplying reusable garbage bags and gloves, join interdisciplinary artist Jill Price of the UN/making Network on Monday mornings during September and October to feel sand between your toes while cleaning up the beaches of Simcoe County.

Once gathered, Price will sort through the trash to retain all of the white refuse that litters the region's beaches after publics have spent the weekends playing and relaxing on the shorelines of Lake Simcoe, a body of water once referred to as Ouentironk ("Beautiful Water") by the native Wendat/Ouendat (Huron) people.

To be analyzed, catalogued, and archived, Price will become the keeper of this culture's pale detritus during her lifetime to prevent this weekend waste from migrating back into integral waterways or burgeoning landfills. See full list of dates and locations below.

September 16th: 9:00-11:00 am - Johnson Beach (Barrie)

September 23rd: 9:00-11:00 am - Centennial Beach (Barrie)

September 30th: 9:00-11:00 am - Couchiching Beach (Orillia)

October 7: 9:00-11:00 am - Innisfil Park Beach (Innisfil)

October 14: 9:00-11:00 am - Minet's Point Beach (Barrie)

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• 705-229-5211 jillpricestudios.ca

Organizer

Jill Price

Initially supported in part by Queen's University and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the UN/making Network is a Cultural Studies PhD research-creation project inspired by creative thinkers and makers who undertake temporary, unexpected, necessary or durational acts of un/making to acknowledge the liveliness and agency of human and more-than-human beings often othered or rendered absent through anthropogenic perspectives and approaches to land.

​Always at risk of encouraging the creation and consumption of more “stuff" or "unhappy objects", practitioners and practices featured on the UN/making Network site often engage at the intersections of art, ecology, post-colonial studies, geography, aesthetics, race theory, gender studies and activism to disrupt colonial, capitalist, patriarchal, and extractive systems that reify Euro-centric values and industrialist processes.