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10 Sep 2021

Ars Scientia: Sensorial Walk with Holly Schmidt

  • Holly Schmidt

    Holly Schmidt (Canadian, b. 1976) is an artist, curator and educator engaging in embodied research, collaboration and informal pedagogy. She creates site-specific public projects that lead to experiments with materials in her studio. As the core of her work, Schmidt explores the multiplicity of human relations with the natural world. During her residency with the Belkin’s Outdoor Art Program, Schmidt has utilized spaces between campus buildings through a process of collective knowledge production. These artistic and ecological interventions foster relationships with plants in a manner that is both distinct from the formal, university landscape design as well as from standard notions of gallery space. Schmidt has been involved in exhibitions, projects and residencies at the Belkin Outdoor Art Program; the Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver; AKA Gallery, Saskatoon; Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver; the Santa Fe Art Institute; Burnaby Art Gallery; and Other Sights for Artists’ Projects, Vancouver.

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In early September, Holly Schmidt, the Outdoor Art Program artist in residence at the Belkin, guided a sensorial walk with the Ars Scientia research cluster. Exploring the different areas of UBC Farm, she took artists and physicists through various exercises in sound, smell and touch within the natural landscape of the forested area. Written scores, sculptures and even new vocabulary for describing sensorial experience were made and shared, bringing attention to the various channels through which observation is conducted in the respective, yet often connected disciplines of art and science.

Schmidt’s Vegetal Encounters residency at the Belkin is a multi-year endeavour in which she creatively engages with and learns from plant life. She has created opportunities for students, staff and faculty on campus to share time and space with the natural world, resulting in art projects of various media and iterations.

Photos (above): Marcus Prasad

  • Holly Schmidt

    Holly Schmidt (Canadian, b. 1976) is an artist, curator and educator engaging in embodied research, collaboration and informal pedagogy. She creates site-specific public projects that lead to experiments with materials in her studio. As the core of her work, Schmidt explores the multiplicity of human relations with the natural world. During her residency with the Belkin’s Outdoor Art Program, Schmidt has utilized spaces between campus buildings through a process of collective knowledge production. These artistic and ecological interventions foster relationships with plants in a manner that is both distinct from the formal, university landscape design as well as from standard notions of gallery space. Schmidt has been involved in exhibitions, projects and residencies at the Belkin Outdoor Art Program; the Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver; AKA Gallery, Saskatoon; Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver; the Santa Fe Art Institute; Burnaby Art Gallery; and Other Sights for Artists’ Projects, Vancouver.

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