A culmination of a year-long, Blue Metropolis-supported collaboration between Tiohtià:ke (Montreal) fibres arts project Gaude et Garance and Indigenous poet and essayist Tara McGowan-Ross, the Poetic Fibres project presents a meeting place of emerging artistic, ethical, and decolonial processes.
Presented as part of the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival’s NEXT programming, this interdisciplinary literary event features a reading of a series of poems written by McGowan-Ross in response to the work of Gaude et Garance and a live performance of the processes Gaude et Garance artists Armen Keuchguerian and Alexandrine Capolla Beauregard employ in making their naturally dyed, locally sourced, handmade alpaca yarns and wool pieces. Exploring textures of land and the landed, of the natural and the naturalized, of slowness and slowing down, this event is presented in conjunction with an online exhibition of the poetic and process documentation works created by the artists.
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