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FIBREGRAFT ASKS:How can we use migrant species as a conduit for learning about landscapes? A workshop series and research practice by Bhavika Sharma, FIBREGRAFT continues to explore collectively working with “invasive” species while transforming them into new materials. This research began in fall 2023 during Bhavika’s Masters’ thesis research on the land-based practices of Hanji communities in the Kashmir Valley’s Dal lake. Observing introduced migrant species at Dal lake, attuning, burrowing, and emerging in companionship with weaver, labourer, and dweller, probed Bhavika to consider new ways of looking at “invasives.”
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RELATED WORKSHOPS + PROJECTS
(forthcoming) The Plumb Bar, Toronto ON / SUMMER 2025
Table Gathering: Processing and Paper-making with Phragmites, SEED Collective, Daniels Faculty of Landscape Architecture and Design, / SPRING 2025
Fibregraft: Working with Japanese Knotweed in collaboration with the Friends of Allan Garden, Allan Gardens Conservatory, Toronto, Ontario / FALL 2024
Anatomy of a Fluid Landscape, Guest Lecturer for LAN3051H: Landscape Research Methods, Universit of Toronto / FALL 2024
Paper-making with Inasive Species, in collaboration with RainScapeTO, Eglinton Park Community Garden, Toronto, Ontario / FALL 2024
Paper-making with Inasive Species, in collaboration with Nikibii Dawadinna Giigwag, UTSC Farm, Scarborough, Ontario / SUMMER 2024
RELATED WRITINGS + PUBLICATIONS
(forthcoming) Tunnel Mound Comeback, Exhibition Publication, The Plumb / 2025(forthcoming) Anatomy of a Fluid Landscape, Scaffold Journal Vol 2: Drafting Liminalities, University of Toronto / 2025
(forthcoming) Sprawl: Towards a Weedy, Rhizomatic Mapping of Landscapes. To Broadcast is to Scatter Exhibition Publication, University of Manitoba / 2025
Bhavika Sharma is a researcher, designer, and interdisciplinary artist based in T’karanto/Toronto/Treaty 13 territory. Learning from local ecological knowledge holders and non-human/weedy kin, Bhavika’s practice investigates material and labour(er) relationships within constructed landscapes. Her practice seeks to expand on non-dominant histories--migratory ecologies, gentle interventions, and the knowledge held by overlooked communities become new markers for reading landscapes. Bhavika’s work is produced through mapping, glitching, transmuting, tethering, and taking apart to unravel complex narratives of place. Bhavika holds an Honours BA in Visual Arts and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Toronto.
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