MOTH GARDEN
Moth Garden is a long-term project by artists Lisa Hirmer and Christina Kingsbury.
Moth Garden is an artist-made garden for moths and other nocturnal pollinators. In a world where attention, care and conservation efforts have a bias towards creatures who align with human perception—the big, the beautiful, the colourful—Moth Garden is a project that wonders how we can relate to beings that are harder for our bodies to perceive. It is a poetic gesture that attends to the tiny and the barely visible around us.
Moth Garden invites visitors to spend time in the dark with nocturnal beings and hopes to offer embodied, sensory experiences at the edge of one’s capacity for perception: perhaps the flicker of moonlight off an iridescent wing, a fluttering felt on the skin, or a rhythmic thrum in the eardrum as a moth flies by.
GARDEN EVENTS
MOTH VIEWING EVENINGS
July 27th – 8:30pm
August 18th + 31st – 8pm
September 9th 6pm
GARDEN OPENING
August 20th – 7pm
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Moth Garden grows on land that is the ancestral home of the Chonnonton, the Anishinaabe, and the Haudenosaunee peoples and the Between the Lakes Treaty territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit.
The Moth Garden project gratefully acknowledges support from the Canada Council for the Arts, Eramosa Herbals, Pollination Guelph, CEDaR Lab, the Culture and Animals Foundation, and Musagetes.