May 20, 2022
Nicole Schafenacker, lives her life in a constant state of ellipsis thinking. Her work as an interdisciplinary artist and researcher has always existed in the liminal spaces between; a space of curiosity in which the unknown is the only way we can ever truly be discovery-ready. She sees in art, the existence of pathways to create both meaning and understanding, to bridge knowledge systems and ways of knowing and to make the possible, personal. Through her work, she embraces radical, transformative approaches to addressing the challenges of the complex issues that we face as one species alongside others on Earth. A cohort member of the International Centre for Art for Social Change, Nicole has spent the last 5 years living, studying and working in northern BC and northern Norway and is thrilled to now be living on the edge of Marsh Lake, Yukon. Her artistic signature is indelibly driven by a commitment to social justice and framed in terms of action research in which she is as curious about what might result in the space of creation as the creative result itself. She is currently Artist in Residence with the Yukon Chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society. She is deeply committed to and engaged in working to undo the colonial relations at the root of the climate crisis and fully acknowledges her role in making active the ongoing process of decolonizing self and society.
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