This work alters light and colour through dance and projects onto the seed sanctuary. Sound may be gathered through the audience, performers and meditative chanting to resonate at a frequency leading to expressive audio reactive visual communication with the seed sanctuary and the audience.
Chantal Dobles Gering is a queer interdisciplinary movement artist (they/she/we). They come from mixed latinx/german lineage and much of their work has been speaking to the diaspora of growing up away from latinx culture. Chantal was born in San Jose, Costa Rica (huetar land) and currently practices on the unceded lands of Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh People. They have researched, performed and created pieces in many festivals, collectives and spaces: Vines Arts Festival, Future Leisure, Still Moon Arts, The Frank Theatre, Boca Del Lupo, National Theatre School, Shapeshifter Media Collective, Queer Soul Poets, Ignite Youth Festival, Blackout Theatre, Ruby Slippers Theatre, Liberated Planet Studio, Runaway Moon Theatre, The Only Animal, Lobe Studio, The Training Society, UBC, Empire of Dirt, The Birdhouse, and the Push Festival. Their art practice gestures towards collective liberation through community movement improvisations, interspecies collaborations, ritual, sound, and poetry.
Choo-Kien Kua is a music producer, visual artist and creative coder. They work by exploring the creative process with meditation, fate and Wu Wei, a natural way of being; sometimes creating expressive interactive programs that react to sound and movement in digital space; often taking the intuitive approach to innovate multimedia explorations. They are based on the unceded lands of Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.