Rethinking some of the work done in Wells to outline what we do at Broken Forests Fireweed and some of our common goals. Back in August, 2025, we came up with several “suggestions” for artists in the group to consider when participating in Broken Forests Creative Actions. This one is taken from a transcription of…
Valéria Scornaienchi joins Broken Forests Fireweed Brazil
My practice investigates modes of coexistence in times marked by ecological and social crisis. I am interested in how encounters between human and more-than-human beings can generate sensitive and ethical shifts within contemporary landscapes of ruin. I approach living as a collective verb — to live with, to make with, to think with, to imagine…
Paul Walde confirms participation in BF Fireweed
Building on my 2018 work Of Weather, Carry On (working title) is a series of stretched photographic prints, based on the size of standard carry-on luggage (22”x14”) that are adapted from footage taken while in residency in Brazil and feature a threatened aspect of the ecological systems found there. The images will be activated by…
Broken Forest Fireweed travels to Brazil
Broken Forests is an ever expanding network of artists who engage directly with forests affected by resource extraction. We currently have groups (pods) in Canada, Brazil, South Korea, and Poland. The Canadian pod is called Broken Forests–Fireweed and we have been working directly with the Brazilian pod since we gathered for two weeks in 2025…
Broken Forests Fireweed in Brazil
Very excited and happy to announce that Broken Forests Fireweed collective will be travelling south in mid-July to visit the forests of Minas Gerais, Brazil and to work with artists from the Broken Forests Brazil group to create exhibitions, performances and site-specific installations in various sites in São Paulo state. There is a new Broken…
Broken Forests Fireweed group announces:
A new webpage and Instagram site for an Artists Collaborative Project that was born at the Actions Supporting Forests symposium and residency at Island Mountain Arts in Wells, BC Click HERE 4 Broken Forests Fireweed NOTES from the SYMPOSIUM (as compiled by D. Wilson and N. Vieira subsequent to discussions held at Island Mountain AIR…
Actions Supporting Forests – August, 2025, Wells, BC
The Broken Forest Eco-Artist Group and interested invited Artists will participate in a 10-day artistic residency in the last weeks of August, 2025. This residency focuses on discussion and processes without the pressure of completing specific works for exhibition during the residency. The aim would be to explore our art, ideals, and notions around activism,…
Baekdudaegun to Boreal Project, 2025
Baekdudaegun to Boreal – Canada-Korea Eco-Art Installation Exchange Project The Nipissing Region Curatorial Collective (North Bay, Ontario, Canada) and the Yatoo Collective in South Korea are sending three BF Eco-Artists Group artists from Canada to forest sites in Korea starting May 10th, 2025. The Canadian artists (Dermot Wilson, Don Chretien and Ernest Daetwyler) will create…
Clearcut Reanimated OPENS near Victoria BC
Clearcut Reanimated is a site-specific art installation and performance series presented by the Broken Forests Eco-Artists Group on a woodlot above Jordan River, B.C. From August 19 – August 26, 2024. The artists participating, i.e. Dermot Wilson, Norma Vieira, Paul Walde, Tasha Lavdovsky, Gwen MacGregor, Johannes Zits, Quan Steele and Ernest Daetwyler, would like to…