Kelly Richardson: Halcyon Fog

Healing the land and bringing our people together: wildfire recovery and restoration in Secwepemcúl’ecw with Angela Kane and Sarah Dickson-Hoyle Tuesday, March 22, 2022 Indigenous communities are on the frontlines of climate change impacts and are disproportionately impacted by disasters such as wildfires and flooding. The 2017, 2018, and 2021 ‘mega-fires’ that burned throughout BC caused large-scale evacuations and impacts to sensitive watersheds and habitats already degraded by decades of industrial forest management. These significant and ongoing impacts continue to restrict Indigenous peoples' rights and abilities to use and occupy their/our homelands through impacts to living cultural heritage such as fish and wildlife populations and food and medicine plants. Following the 2017 ‘Elephant Hill’ fire, which burned close to 200,000 hectares throughout the heartland of the Secwépemc Nation (Secwepemcúl’ecw), Secwépemc communities came together to advocate for Secwépemc leadership in the recovery and restoration of their/our territories. In this presentation, Kane and Dickson-Hoyle share Secwépemc experiences of recent wildfires, the collective story of coming together in joint leadership to shape a new approach to land-based recovery, and ‘lessons learned’ to support Indigenous leadership in land and fire stewardship. Meaningfully addressing climate change and advancing reconciliation requires supporting Indigenous peoples in (re)claiming stewardship roles and transforming forest management to centre sustainable land use and reciprocal relationships with tmicw (the land and all who rely on it). Angela Kane is the CEO for the Secwepemcúl’ecw Restoration and Stewardship Society. Her role is to implement the vision and mandate of the 8 communities that she advocates for daily. “Manage, protect and revitalize our tmicw through unity and Secwépemc values and law. Our laws and way of life comes from our connection to timcw. Take care of the land, the land takes care of us. It is our cultural responsibility to ensure we leave a legacy of regenerated lands, enriched and thriving forests and biodiversity, healthy and abundant wildlife, clean air and water for future generations.” Sarah Dickson-Hoyle is a PhD candidate and Public Scholar in the UBC Faculty of Forestry. Her research, in partnership with the Secwepemcúl’ecw Restoration and Stewardship Society as well as two of its member Secwépemc communities, is documenting how these communities and their territories are recovering following the 2017 Elephant Hill wildfire, and seeks to support Indigenous-led stewardship and restoration in fire-adapted territories. This talk was offered in support of the exhibition, Kelly Richardson: Halcyon Fog, on view at the Kamloops Art Gallery until April 2, 2022.

March 15, 2022 Dr. Rachel Holt offered a virtual presentation discussing the diversity of British Columbia forests, and current policy shifts that may signal a change in approach to forest management. Following her presentation, Dr. Holt answered questions from the audience. Originally from the UK, Rachel Holt’s graduate studies and research in British Columbia fueled her passion for the incredible biodiversity of BC’s forest ecosystems. From defining indices of old growth forests in the field in the 1990s, to policy, planning, and cumulative effects assessments for the province of British Columbia and First Nations, Holt has worked on the ecology and management of British Columbia’s old growth forests in a variety of ways over the last 30 years. She recently co-authored a study on the state of old growth in BC and was a member of the Provincial Ministry’s Old Growth Technical Advisory Panel. Holt was on the Forest Practices Board for 6 years, serving as vice-chair for two of those years. She was also recently an expert witness testifying on ecosystem conditions and effectiveness of policy in the successful Supreme Court Case on Treaty Rights for the Blueberry River First Nation. Holt owns and manages the consulting company Veridian Ecological Consulting Ltd. Her goal is to bring transparency to the use of data and science in land management issues in BC, and to move towards a future that considers the full value of ecosystems in decision-making. This talk was offered in support of the exhibition, Kelly Richardson: Halcyon Fog, on view at the Kamloops Art Gallery until April 2, 2022.

This artist's talk with Kelly Richardson was offered online via Zoom on Wednesday, February 16, 2022, in support of her exhibition, Halcyon Fog, curated by Charo Neville, Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery, on view until April 2, 2022. Using digital technologies, Kelly Richardson creates hyper-real, sublime, and spectacular landscapes that communicate underlying unsettling narratives. This solo exhibition presents a view into Richardson’s longstanding exploration of our relationship to nature, and how this relates to climate change. Her work asks us to consider what we truly value and where we might go from here. Kelly Richardson has exhibited her work in North America, Asia, and Europe, including at NGCA (England), Dundee Contemporary Arts (Scotland), Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (Austria), SMoCA (USA), CAG Vancouver (Canada), VOID Derry (Ireland), and a major survey at the Albright-Knox (USA). Richardson’s work has been selected for the Beijing, Busan, Canadian, Gwangju, and Montréal biennales, as well as major moving image exhibitions internationally, including TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) and Sundance Film Festival. She is represented in the collections of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, USA; SMoCA, USA; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, USA; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Quebec; Arts Council Collection, England; Southampton City Art Gallery, England; Towner, England; and Arts Council Collection, England, among others. Kelly Richardson was born in Burlington, Ontario, in 1972. From 2003-2017 she resided in northeast England where she was a Lecturer in Fine Arts at Newcastle University. She currently lives and works as a visitor on the traditional territory of the WSANEC peoples of the Coast Salish Nation on Vancouver Island, Canada. She is Professor in Visual Arts at the University of Victoria. Kelly Richardson: Halcyon Fog is curated by Charo Neville, Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery and is on view until April 2, 2022.

Kelly Richardson: Halcyon Fog is curated by Charo Neville, Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery and is on view at the Kamloops Art Gallery January 22 to April 2, 2022. Video by Jonathon Fulton.

UVic student profiles Kelly Richardson, associate professor in Visual Arts, filming in the old-growth forests of T’l’oqwxwat (Avatar Grove) near Port Renfrew to explore connections between art, science and the environment. http://uvic.ca

Kelly Richardson is creating art reflecting our changing world and raising awareness around the plight to protect Vancouver Island's old-growth forests.

In her new massive IMAX film Embers and the Giants, video installation artist Kelly Richardson pays homage to ancient trees — and imagines a better future.

As old-growth logging continues unabated in most unprotected areas of B.C., one conservation organization decided to spend a year creating a detailed map that shows the province’s original forests have all but disappeared under pressure from industrialization

Old-Growth (OG) Forest Statistics – Southern Coast (i.e. Vancouver Island and SW Mainland) Original Total OG: 5.5 million hectares Low Productivity OG: 2.2 million hectares Original Productive OG: 3.3 million hectares Remaining Productive OG: 860,000 hectares (26% of original) In Parks – Productive OG: 200,000 hectares (6% of original) In Parks and OGMAs – Productive […]

The film explores the characters’ individual relationships with ancient forests, and why it’s imperative we collectively protect them. It touches on potential solutions, like a transition away from old-growth in the future of logging, and Indigenous sovereignty.

"A forest is much more than what you see," says ecologist Suzanne Simard. Her 30 years of research in Canadian forests have led to an astounding discovery -- trees talk, often and over vast distances. Learn more about the harmonious yet complicated social lives of trees and prepare to see the natural world with new eyes.

As forest fires and resource extraction continue to damage the ecosystem in British Columbia, the Secwépemc people and their allies move to protect their traditional territory by managing the 2018 morel mushroom harvest. This short documentary focuses on the Elephant Hill forest fire of 2017 that burnt 192,000 hectares of Secwepemc territory in British Columbia, and the commercial morel harvest in the summer of 2018. Coordinated and run by the Secwepemc Territorial Patrol, the Secwepemc Territory Morel Harvest program oversaw the permitting of commercial and recreational harvesters, ensuring sustainable and safe land use through a permit (land-use contract). The film was created to bring awareness to the growing problem of unsanctioned non- timber resource extraction from Secwepemc territory, as well as to highlight the efficacy of indigenous stewardship programs.

Listen to this episode from Earth Matters on Spotify. Tiny House Warriors: Secwepemc struggleSecwepemc land protector Kanahus Freedom on how Secwepemc people are resisting the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion and ongoing impacts of colonialism & white supremacy by asserting their sovereignty via creative direct action campaigns, such as the Tiny House Warrior campaign.audio sourced with thanks from The Final Straw Radio on Archive.orgEarth Matters #1225 was produced by Nicky Stott

Listen to this episode from Warrior Life on Spotify. In Episode 62, we talk to a special group of powerful Secwepemc women from Neskonlith Indian Band. Neskonlith Chief Judy Wilson, elder Alice Aby and Kanahus Manuel from Tiny House Warriors all join the podcast to talk about the Secwepemc governance, laws and their responsibility to protect their lands from the Trans Mountain pipeline. They have called on us to support them in any way we can. Link to Neskonlith's notice to media with background information: https://mediacoop.ca/story/statement-rejection-secw%C3%A9pemec-bc-government-gover/37001 Link to Tiny House Warriors: http://www.tinyhousewarriors.com/ Press release demanding man camps be shut down: http://www.tinyhousewarriors.com/2020/04/shut-down-the-man-camps/ When more information and links for support become available, I will post it here. Here is the YouTube video of this podcast in case you prefer video-version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt-p86Fn9Cw&t=9s Please note: Nothing in this podcast advocates for violence on Indigenous territories. Note: The information contained in this podcast is not legal, financial or medical advice, nor should it be relied on as such. If you would like more information about these issues, you can check out my website at www.pampalmater.com If you would like to support my work, here is the link to my Patreon account: www.patreon.com/pampalmater My new book: Warrior Life: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence by Fernwood Publishing is available for pre-order with a 10% discount for podcast listeners by using code warrior10 fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/warrior-life (picture by Justin Brake used with permission by Kanahus Manuel)

Listen to this episode from How to Save a Planet on Spotify. This week, we’re talking about oil pipelines. From the fight against Keystone XL to Standing Rock, pipeline protests have been central to the climate movement in the U.S. But they’ve always been about more than just the climate -- they’ve also been a battle for Indigenous rights, demanding that Native American people and Tribes should have a say over what happens in their historic territories. This week, we look back at how pipeline protests have transformed climate activism in the U.S., and we go to the front lines of the latest protests, where organizers are fighting, in their words, “For water. For treaties. For climate.”Guests: Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Joye Braun, Jenni Monet, Jamie Henn and Tara Houska.Learn More For more about Tara and her work, you can:  Check out the Giniw Collective on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram  Watch Tara’s TED Talk: The Standing Rock resistance and our fight for Indigenous rights You can find more information, including ways to get involved from home, here: https://linktr.ee/stopline3 You can find out about the divestment campaign aimed at companies that fund fossil fuel infrastructure here: https://stopthemoneypipeline.com/  Further Reading You can read or listen to Tara’s essay in the anthology co-edited by Ayana, All We Can Save Check out the ongoing reporting on Line 3 from Minnesota Public Radio and Indian Country Today. There’s also great reporting from The Guardian, and Emily Atkin at Heated. Read Louise Erdrich’s essay about Line 3 in The New York Times Check out our Calls to Action archive for all of the actions we've recommended on the show. Send us your ideas or feedback with our Listener Mail form. Sign up for our newsletter here. And follow us on Twitter and Instagram.This episode of How to Save a Planet was produced by Rachel Waldholz. The rest of our reporting and producing team includes Kendra Pierre-Louis and Anna Ladd. Our intern is Ayo Oti. Our senior producer is Lauren Silverman. Our editor is Caitlin Kenney. Sound design and mixing by Peter Leonard with original music from Emma Munger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Listen to this episode from Good Fire on Spotify. This episode features stories from Fire Keeper Nklawa. He provides insight helping people to better understand burning and it’s importance from a cultural perspective.

Listen to this episode from Ologies with Alie Ward on Spotify. Cultural burns. Prescribed blazes. A healthy forest. What exactly is “good fire?” Let’s ask Indigenous fire scientist Dr. Amy Christianson, who is a co-host of the podcast ...Good Fire. This wonderfully generous and informed scholar took a quick break from her Canadian wilderness vacation to fill me in on Indigenous history, collaborations between Western science & First Nations elders, Aboriginal thoughts on cultural burns, flim-flam, evacuations, snowmelt, hunting strategies, land stewardship, happy trees, climate strategies, and the social science behind wildfire education. Also learning from Native wildfire fighters. Huge thanks to her and Matt Kristoff -- who also hosts the Your Forest Podcast -- for allowing us to use excerpts from their interview to launch Good Fire. Subscribe to both podcasts to get more ecological knowledge in your ears.Follow Dr. Amy Christianson on Twitter Listen to the “Good Fire” podcastAlso great: Your Forest podcastA donation was made to Indigenous Residential School Survivors More episode sources & links Sponsors of OlogiesTranscripts & bleeped episodesBecome a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a monthOlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, totes, masks… Follow @ologies on Twitter and InstagramFollow @alieward on Twitter and InstagramSound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray MorrisTranscripts by Emily White of The WordaryWebsite by Kelly R. Dwyer

Listen to this episode from MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous Current Affairs on Spotify. Carbon coup. When it comes to fighting climate change, have Indigenous activists made much of a difference? Do we really know what their myriad anti-pipeline actions add up to? Turns out, a lot—now with the numbers to back it up. They come from a recent report that’s literally quantified the amount of greenhouse gas emissions either stopped or delayed thanks to Indigenous-led activism. But will this more concrete sense of the impact of Indigenous leadership translate into greater respect and recognition? Joining host/producer Rick Harp at the roundtable this episode are Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies at York University Brock Pitawanakwat, and Rogers Chair in Journalism at the University of King’s College Trina Roache. // CREDITS: Our opening and closing theme is 'nesting' by birocratic.

Listen to this episode from Pacific Rim College Radio on Spotify. If you care about the planet, this episode with conservation scientist and university professor Dr. Chris Darimont is one that you do not want to miss. From his research chair base at the University of Victoria, Chris oversees a team of researchers throughout BC. After earning a PhD in Evolution and Ecology from the University of Victoria, his postdoctoral work took him to the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a large group of research partners. He has also worked closely with conservation leaders from First Nations communities of coastal British Columbia. The wildlife and people of BC’s central coast – an area popularly known as the Great Bear Rainforest – comprise a study system of particular interest for Chris and his team. In this episode, Chris and I discuss the Raincoast Conservation Foundation and his work as their Science Director. Chris helps to shed some light on British Columbia’s dwindling forests, the logging industry, and the limitations of commercial-scale tree planting. We talk about the importance of our first growth forests and the role of grandmother trees to the health of forest ecology and the wildlife that lives there. As for the wildlife, Chris raises awareness on concerning issues related to salmon, and the importance of many of BC’s token animals such as caribou, wolves, mountain lions, and bears. We also spend some time discussing what he and I both agree is the atrocious concept of trophy hunting, which BC still permits in the case of many animals despite overwhelming public outcry to the contrary. Can we put an end to trophy hunting? Chris and I certainly hope that we can, and the recent and senseless slaughter of Victoria’s beloved island wolf Takaya, is bringing the issue once again to the forefront. If you care about the environment and its precious creatures, pull up a chair while Professor Chris Darimont leads a little lesson in Conservation 101. Episode Links: Dr. Chris Darimont, University of Victoria Applied Conservation Science Lab Raincoast Conservation Foundation Protect wolves in BC Why Men Trophy Hunt article Learning Links: School of Permaculture Design at Pacific Rim College Community Herbalist Certificate Online at Pacific Rim College Online Podcast on Salish Wolf with Chris’s friend and fellow conservationist Norm Hann

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Richardson creates hyper-real digital films of rich and complex landscapes that have been manipulated using CGI, animation and sound. Weaving together myth and metaphor with scientific research and new digital technologies, The Weather Makers will present three large-scale video works alongside a new print series. The exhibition asks the viewer to consider what the future might look like if we continue on our current trajectory of planetary pillaging and consumption, and why we have allowed ourselves to arrive at such a moment of global environmental crisis. A 12-metre-long panoramic view of a Martian landscape set hundreds of years in the future, Mariner 9 (2012) presented in partnership with NEoN Digital Arts Festival, evokes the human search for life beyond our own planet that continues even as we damage or destroy entire ecosystems on Earth. This vast video work was created using scenery-generation software employed by the film and gaming industries in combination with technical data from NASA’s missions to Mars to produce a faithful artist’s rendering of Martian terrain, populated by the debris from centuries of exploration. In Orion Tide (2013-14), Richardson presents a desert punctuated by spurts of light and smoke repeatedly launching into the dark night sky. The viewer is left to question what these rocket-like movements are; why they have been launched; and who or what they are carrying. They could be departing explorers searching for a new world or perhaps the escape of a group of planetary refugees, a mass exodus of humanity. In Leviathan (2011), a 20-minute loop of footage shot on Caddo Lake in Uncertain, Texas displays the region’s unique bald cypress trees in their swamp environment. Filmed from a single vantage point, like a painting set in motion, Richardson has digitally enhanced the nearly monochromatic setting with strange yellow tendrils of light, undulating and twisting beneath the water, hinting at an undiscovered or mutated bioluminant life-form, or perhaps the aftermath of something altogether more disturbing. Accompanying the exhibition’s large-scale video works will be Richardson’s latest series of chromogenic prints, Pillars of Dawn, which present images of an imaginary desert in which trees and terrain have been physically crystallised by changes in the environment. As part of NEoN Digital Arts Festival, Kelly has also been invited to curate an exhibition of digital art making reference to both her own immersive landscape work and the festival theme of Media Archaeology. That exhibition will run in Centrespace in the Visual Research Centre on the lower ground floor of DCA, open from Sat 11 November - Sun 19 November 2017. More details on this can be found here. Richardson currently lives and works on Vancouver Island where she is Associate Professor in Visual Arts at the University of Victoria. Her work is held in many major international collections including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, SMoCA and Albright-Knox Art Gallery to the National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Arts Council Collection England and Towner, Eastbourne. Her work has been selected for the Beijing, Busan, Canadian, Gwangiu and Montreal biennales, and recent solo exhibitions include SMoCA, CAG Vancouver, VOID Derry, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, and a major survey at the Albright-Knox.

The barren, dystopian landscapes of Kelly Richardson’s audiovisual installations are hypnotically beautiful, recalling sci-fi and Romanticism, and issuing a subtle call to arms over the catastrophic effects of climate change

Currently residing on Vancouver Island, but originally from Burlington, Ontario, video artist Kelly Richardson makes work that revolves around the installation of ethereal moving image pictures. Capturing videos and producing images through high technology cameras and programs, her installations depict scenes of the world’s land––forests, lakes, and skies–

As part of the Future Projections program at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, UK-based Canadian artist Kelly Richardson brought a scaled-down version of her amazing new work Mariner 9 to the Royal Ontario Museum. A panoramic video installation, Mariner 9 presents a detailed portrait of the surface of Mars as it might be seen […]

Canadian artist Kelly Richardson talks about her exhibition, 'Legion', at the Grundy Art Gallery in Blackpool. Richardson guides us through her work, influences, techniques and how her exhibition has been received by the public. Exhibition opened 20th Oct 2012 and closes 5th Jan 2013. For more information please visit the Grundy's website www.grundyartgallery.com