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01 May 2020

Twenty-minute Walk with Holly Schmidt

  • Holly Schmidt

    Artist

    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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Lorna Brown, Associate Director and Curator at the Belkin, interviews Holly Schmidt, the Outdoor Art Program’s artist in residence at UBC. Schmidt’s residency at UBC that she has titled Vegetal Encounters began in the fall of 2018 and will extend into 2021, taking the framework of a slow, unfolding process of exploration and research with different departments and communities on campus. During this period of self-isolation and physical distancing necessitated by COVID-19, Schmidt discusses her practice in the context of this tumultuous moment and how it relates to embodiment and her own sense of materiality that encompasses both the manipulation of matter as well as the historical and social context of the present situation. The interview took place on Friday, April 24, 2020 in Vancouver, BC.

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A conversation with Holly Schmidt, Lorna Brown and Barbara Cole, followed by Feeling Good, 1965, Nina Simone (Composer Anthony Newley, Leslie Bricusse) Used with permission.

Image (above): View of Holly Schmidt’s studio showing Quiescence (2019) from the Burrard Arts Foundation residency (April 5-May 25, 2019).

  • Holly Schmidt

    Artist

    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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