This residency brings together artist Nina Vroemen and scientist Dr. Julian Self and their shared interests in material behavior—glaze chemistry (ceramics) and phase equilibria (materials science)—at a unique site close to the Woodhaven residency.
WHEN: Friday, March 9, 2-4 PM
WHERE: Woodhaven EcoCulture Centre
WHAT: Open Studio/Workshop: Please join to meet with the 2026 FEELed Lab/Woodhaven Artist-and-Scientist-in-Resident, Nina Vroemen and Julian Self. We will learn more about their individual practices, and what they have learned together after spending a week together exploring cultural meaning, geological time, and planetary science in relation to Spotted Lake (Kɬlil̕xʷ) in the Okanagan Valley—an Indigenous sacred site of healing, ceremony, and geological awe stewarded by the Syilx Okanagan Nation. All welcome.
Nina Vroemen is a multidisciplinary artist and educator who makes work about ecology that is speculative and embodied. Born in Gatineau, Quebec.They currently live in Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal), on the traditional territory of the Kanien’kehà:ka.
Their recent shows include a solo exhibition at L’Ecart, ground is the bottom of anything (Rouyn), Engaging the margins at Beal Centre for Art + Technology (Irvine), Sentient Disobedience at the PHI (MTL), IGNITION 19 at the Ellen Gallery (MTL), Marées Queer Tides at Gallery Sans Nom (NB), Artch(QC), Watershed Art and Ecology (CHI), Points de Bascule,Centre Clark (MTL), and Darling Foundry (MTL).
With their focus on Art and Ecology, they have been invited to international gatherings on climate change, such as the More than Human Life MOTH gathering, organized by the NYU School of Law and Theory of (Climate) Change <–> Practice of (Climate) Change: Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions, organized by the Institute of Environment in Sydney Australia.
They have participated in numerous artist residencies, including Centre PHI public engagement (2024), Studio Kura (2024), Eastern Bloc (2023), Performing Arts Forum (2023), ARTSCAPE Gibraltar (2022), RURART (2020).
Their work has been published in Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear (Silver Press, 2024, UK), Being a Body of Water (PHI 2024) Engaging the Margins (UC Irvine, 2024), esse: art + opinions (September 2023).
Julian Self is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal. He studies phase equilibria and liquid solutions, in contexts ranging from electronic waste recycling to electrolytes used in batteries. He asks questions such as: When do liquid mixtures freeze or separate?
Dr. Self received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2021 in materials science where he studied liquid electrolytes for conventional batteries, along with newer batteries which could be based on calcium or magnesium. Currently, he resides in Montreal.
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