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 Hanzi communities in the Kashmir Valley’s Dal lake. Observing introduced migrant species at Dal lake, attuning, burrowing, and emerging in companion with weaver, labourer, and dweller, probed Bhavika to consider new ways of looking at “invasives.”
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Bhavika Sharma is a researcher, designer, and interdisciplinary artist based in the Grand River watershed and T’karanto/Toronto. Learning from local ecological knowledge holders and non-human/weedy kin, Bhavika’s practice investigates material and labour(er) relationships within constructed landscapes. Their practice seeks to expand on non-dominant histories--migratory ecologies, gentle interventions, and overlooked communities become new markers for reading landscapes. Bhavika’s praxis 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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