Opening Celebration
a sliver is a seed
Opening Celebration
21 May 2026
5:00-8:00pm
Participants: Boring Earth
Please join us for the opening celebration of a sliver is a seed with Boring Earth on Thursday May 21, 2026 from 5:00pm to 8:00pm.
This program is free and open to all.
a sliver is a seed presents major new sculptural commissions alongside collaborative works developed over the past two years by Boring Earth, an artist collective concerned with cultivating more-than-human mutualisms and relations among living environments. Convened by artists Patrick Cruz and Laila Fox, Boring Earth gathers material and immaterial beings into a practice that traces thresholds of intimacy between what is seen and sensed, conjuring elemental ontologies that gesture toward alternative worldings.
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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.