Bio:
I am an artist, researcher and educator living in so-called Vancouver, on the unceded, traditional and ancestral territories of the Coast Salish people, including the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. I recognize that I’m also living on the traditional territories of more-than-human life including bears, deers, raccoons, eagles, ravens, crows, hummingbirds, cedars, firs, salals and others.
My multispecies studio explores more-than-human creativity to develop kinships with local lifeforms and ecologies. I have a PhD from Simon Fraser University. I am Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design where I teach New Media + Sound Arts, and I am co-director of the Basically Good Media Lab. I am currently working on creative co-productions with birds (Bird Park Survival Station), and sound art experiences within old-growth forest ecologies (Branching Songs). My book is Lessons from a Multispecies Studio: Uncovering Ecological Understanding & Biophilia through Creative Reciprocity. Intellect Books, 2021.
contact: jandreyev @ ecuad.ca
Artist statement:
My research and practice explores creative reciprocity with more-than-human beings in my city and region. I’m interested in listening practices, whether that’s with our unaided ears, or with technologies that help us expand our attention to the world. I am interested in potentials for noninvasive multispecies technologies to help develop care and compassion for more-than-human worlds. Whether the projects outcomes are video, sound art, land-based instruments, performance or immersive installation, they have at their core a respectful interfacing with more-than-human life with an intention to build good relations. I am dedicated to the broad cultural transformation in thought and action that must take place to address the climate emergency, and the harms against more-than-human life and habitat. This includes acknowledging human embeddedness in the natural systems of the Earth, acknowledging the responsibilities of living in a multispecies city, and living in relation to wild spaces further afield. My intention is to develop kinships with more-than-human life based on care, respect and reciprocity.