Music for Plants Listening Party

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Veg out with plant sounds on a Monday night.

Hosted by holophon audio arts' Ernie Dulanowsky, this listening session invites you to rediscover lost, outlandish and ultimately inspiring notions by artists creating sound not for an audience of fellow humans but for plants.

This live, online event builds upon holophon’s series of online listening sessions focusing on soundworks of note.

Dunlanowsky facilitates the listening and provides historical context for the albums and composers, including impact on emerging genres of sound and music, critical reception, influence and the album's interaction with research disciplines and social thought of the time.

This listening session allows the public to rediscover lost, outlandish and ultimately inspiring notions by artists creating sound not for an audience of fellow humans but for plants.

Mort Garson's Mother Earth's Plantasia (1976) and Plant Material (2017) by Toronto artist Jess Forrest, AKA Castle If, have been selected for the listening session. This audio journey takes listeners from the flakey edge of science (Garson was inspired by the book The Secret Life of Plants, written by occultist/former OSS agent Peter Tompkins and former CIA agent/dowsing enthusiast Christopher Bird) to dreamy and genuinely adoring odes by a contemporary musical artist to her beloved houseplants.

Listening with houseplants is recommended.

This event is co-developed and co-promoted with holophon audio arts.

Links

• Art Gallery of Regina artgalleryofregina.ca

Organizer

Art Gallery of Regina

The Art Gallery of Regina is a visionary in contemporary art programming that reflects our time and place within an engaged and diverse community.

Mission:

Our mission is to support artists and engage audiences through contemporary art programming.

Supporting artists involves supporting artists' vision and voices, from every level of Saskatchewan's cultural ecology, by:

-seeking out and encouraging artists with group and solo exhibition opportunities;

-hosting captivating exhibitions in which gallery visitors can locate their interests and experiences;

-providing professional development opportunities;

-providing supportive experiences for exhibiting artists;

-providing open access opportunities for amateur and recreational artists; and

-facilitating connections between artists and artists and the larger community.

Engaging audiences includes attracting, involving, inspiring and creating community, and a sense of identity and place, through:

-free admission to all exhibitions;

-affordably-priced and accessible public workshops;

-free artist talks and opportunities to connect with professional artists; and

-thought-provoking and accessible didactic materials.

Innvovative and collaborative partnerships with community and arts organizations to expand outreach and diversity.

Values:

We practice these values in our planning, decision-making and behaviour:

Contemporary – We exhibit contemporary art that has meaning to our diverse communities, showing work that is relevant to our time and place.

​Accountability -- We function with high standards of operations and accountability that support AGR's sustainability.

​Community Engagement-- We are inviting, welcoming, and supportive to the public and artists while continually expanding our community both regionally and locally.