The Book Room,2023, paper,

ink, and mixed media participatory installation,

I created a living space for languaging that makes the everyday possible. Many people came through, writing on the walls, the floors, spending time reading and sometimes responding to what was there ( my written recipes for Artfulife). Some people sent work, which was transcribed. The BookRoom that was defended as my PhD thesis research creation. Erin Manning describes the room, “In artistic practice, collaboration has always been foregrounded. Why not in academia? Languaging is not born of the subject. It grows in the acrossness of a care for all that moves beneath it.”

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.