Panel
a sliver is a seed:
Artist Panel
23 May–
23 May 2026
Image Courtesy of the Artists.
Participants: Boring Earth, Deborah Edmeades, Woojae Kim
Please join Boring Earth in conversation with multi-disciplinary artists Deborah Edmeades and Woojae Kim, at x̱aw̓s shew̓áy̓ garden.
Together the artist panel will discuss themes of supernatural ecologies, spirituality, ritual, superstition, and belief as they intersect with artistic practice and everyday life. This conversation is presented in conjunction with the exhibition a sliver is a seed, on view at Or Gallery from May 21 to August 9, 2026.
This program is free and open to all in collaboration with x̱aw̓s shew̓áy̓ garden and 221A. We extend our gratitude to T’uy’tanat Cease Wyss for stewarding x̱aw̓s shew̓áy̓ garden as a place of community gathering and reflection.
Participants are invited to visit Or Gallery in advance of the panel and walk to the garden together with Boring Earth. In the event of rain, the conversation will take place at Or Gallery.
Schedule:
1:30pm Guests invited to meet at Or Gallery and view exhibition
1:45pm Guests walk to x̱aw̓s shew̓áy̓ garden together
2:00pm Welcome + Introductions
2:05pm Panel Discussion
2:45pm Question + Response Period
3:00pm Closing Remarks
With Support From
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221A
Participant Bios
Boring Earth
Boring Earth is a collective concerned with discrepant, more-than-human worldings and the portals that jamb between. Their research considers eclipsed and emergent modalities of socionatural relations, muddling extractive dualities through pluriversal inquiry, elemental knowing, and play. A collaboration between artists Patrick Cruz and Laila Fox, and a shifting gathering of beings, Boring Earth challenges the One-World myth, conjuring plural ways of perceiving/believing/relating across urbanized ecosystems. Boring Earth has recently exhibited at Proof of Life at the Jackman Humanities Institute, curated by Chloë Gordon-Chow; shell sounding long at Paul Petro (Toronto, Canada); and Fae Fae Fi Fi Fou Fou, a project with Moire’s Catwalk (Toronto, Canada). They have an upcoming exhibition at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery curated by Darryn Doull.
Deborah Edmeades
Although working across mediums such as drawing, video, writing, and sculpture, Deborah Edmeades roots her practice in performance: an orientation that has continued at times outside of the art world in the form of therapeutic and spiritual inquiry. More recently she has been investigating the historical underpinnings of New Age religion, especially its relationship to the feminine struggle for spiritual authority. Edmeades has shown work at Afternoon Projects, Western Front, and Artspeak in Vancouver; SPACE Mercer Union in Toronto; Participant Inc., Pratt Manhattan Gallery, and Knitting Factory in NYC; as well as further abroad. She’s received grants from Franklin Furnace Archive, Canada Council for the Arts, and BC Arts Council. In 2000 she was visiting artist and guest lecturer of performance art at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2014 she received an MFA from Simon Fraser University. She is currently a PhD student in Interdisciplinary Studies at UBC.
Woojae Kim
Woojae Kim is a Korean artist and writer living on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver, Canada). His works explore rituals of interdependency and listening to inaudible frequencies of relationships with non-humans and the land. His work has recently been exhibited in Vancouver (Artspeak, Dreams Comma Delta, Afternoon Projects), Toronto (The Plumb) and New York (Psychic Readings*). His texts were published in the Canadian Art and the Capilano Review. Kim received an MFA from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.