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	<title>Alexa Bunnell - artist and writer</title>
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website currently under construction. Email me at abunnell@outlook.com.&#38;nbsp;


Alexa Bunnell is an emerging curator, artist, writer, fermenter and bike enthusiast. Their practice is currently based in Mohkinstsís (Calgary, AB) on Treaty 7 Territory. Adoration, playfulness and multi-species conspirators guide their practice and research. They are influenced by doom metal, plant histories, bike paths shaped by rivers, mycorrhizal webs, and cold, fermented beverages on hot days. 

Their artistic work has recently been presented at Workshop Studios, EMMEDIA Gallery and Production Society, Marion Nicoll Gallery, White Rabbit Festival, The Bows and The New Gallery.&#38;nbsp; Their writing has appeared in ReIssue Magazine, LUMA Quarterly, CMagazine, Galleries West and Canadian Art. Alexa has received numerous scholarships and grants, including from Calgary Arts Development and Canada Council of the Arts.&#38;nbsp; In 2020, they were awarded runner-up for the Canadian Art Writing Prize.


Alexa is currently the Program Manager and Curator for the TREX SW region.
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 Documentation of a bio-data sonification soundbath performance hosted at Workshop Studios in 2024. Images by Danny Luong.




At varying points of my practice I have been taken with soliphilia: a love and responsibility for land, ecosystem, and microbiome, rooted deeply in interdependence and unity - an adoration of the interrelated whole. My interest in soliphilia is derived from a desire for building restorative relationships between myself and more-than-human kin. 
These entanglements between myself and my more-than-human kin morph themselves into many forms: an interactive website describing the story of a decaying human body absorbed by the beauty of the mycelial network in a forest in Death Spins, Spun; singing out imitations of an air-raid siren out to the Fundy Bay to express wordless queer desires in Siren Song; regularly gifting home-brewed kombucha and sourdough bread to my friends and loved ones; the web of research that has morphed into a variety of critical arts writing pieces on plant-human interdependence. While I consider my artistic practice rooted in my daily practice of living in collaboration with these entanglements, I regularly revisit working within sound, video work and writing to evoke these collaborations. I often work within affective mediums, including writing (which is sometimes an essay, a script, and sometimes a surrealist story) and music, song, and singing, to express emotions that are expansive, embodied, and in many ways, inexpressible in simplistic terms.

Creating sound and music requires a deep listening practice that is embodied, relational and attentive to the sounds we hear around us. Often, this practice of listening reminds me of my own body, that it holds memories similarly to my collaborators, that it can be nourished by others and that it can nourish. When I use my voice to sing, I regulate my parasympathetic system through deep breathing and my heart rate slows down. My work is an emotionally informed listening to the soliphilic entanglements around us.



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		<title>Left-side Navigation</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2020 22:56:20 +0000</pubDate>

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About ︎︎︎


News ︎︎︎




Substack ︎︎︎








artistic works


I keep playing this song because i love you, 2023

drained, 2019

Death Spins, Spun, 2022

I wanted you to see, 2019

Fishing nets, 2019&#38;nbsp;

Dying to be like aunty, 2019

Mother’s Monologue, 2018

Spirrrit Wrrrestlerrrs, 2019


curatorial projects
From Another Place, 2022

writing
The Vegetarian, 2022

Tourbe Chunky, 2022

Dear C Mag, 2021

Vaster and More Slow, 2020



That Battle is Over, Girl, 2020


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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2020 22:56:16 +0000</pubDate>

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		<title>Rotating Logo</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2020 22:56:17 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Alexa Bunnell - artist and writer</dc:creator>

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	Alexa Bunnell is an emerging artist, writer, curator and fermenter based in Mohkinstsís (Calgary, AB) on Treaty 7 Territory. Their artistic work takes into account queer considerations of fermentation, ecologies and mycology through restorative futures and hauntings.

Their artistic work has recently been presented at EMMEDIA Gallery and Production Society, Marion Nicoll Gallery, White Rabbit Festival, The Bows and The New Gallery.&#38;nbsp; Their writing has appeared in ReIssue Magazine, LUMA Quarterly, CMagazine, Galleries West and Canadian Art. Alexa has received numerous scholarships and grants including from Calgary Arts Development and Canada Council of the Arts.&#38;nbsp; In 2020, they were awarded runner up for the Canadian Art Writing Prize. 
They currently work at The New Gallery as the operations co-director in collaboration with Winona Julian.
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Photo by Danny Luong.


	CV (PDF)
	

	Rabbit graphic by Nick Abrams from Noun Project


	
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		<title>News</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2022 00:25:12 +0000</pubDate>

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recent news:Interview with Aaron Obedkoff, published with OBOD Magazine on June 24, 2021. Read here.

Awarded runner-up for the Canadian Art Writing Prize in 2020. Read the announcement here.
Vaster and More Slow, published by Canadian Art on May 20, 2020. Read here.
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		<title>drained</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2023 01:11:14 +0000</pubDate>

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drained - 2019



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drained (2019) is an exploration into gendered anxieties, dysphoria and inner crises manifesting as words written in hair, fired onto tiles. The hair, sourced from an undercut, is dipped in a cobalt blue glaze and fired. In the firing process, the hair is burnt away, leaving a cast or a burnout of its form on the tile. Ghostly traces of individual hairs dragged across the tiles read; “washed whore, lived girl crisis, while reverbs drip into a non body.”
The tiles are the only witness to these anxieties, offering up traces of the hair left behind from the artist. Removed from the body, the hair becomes a haunting itself, a trace, a ghost.&#38;nbsp;



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		<title>fishing nets</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2020 22:56:18 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Alexa Bunnell - artist and writer</dc:creator>

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Fishing nets - 2019



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Fishing nets was created while attending the White Rabbit Residency in Upper Economy, Nova Scotia. Toying with ideas of extraction, attraction, desire and disdain, this first fishnet became a slippery, campy not-quite-barrier barrier. In turning this fishnet into one that doesn’t blend with it’s sourroundings, it becomes a method of highlighting problematic extractive methods, instead providing fish with the opportunity to cruise around this net.




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		<title>I wanted you to see</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2022 01:26:50 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Alexa Bunnell - artist and writer</dc:creator>

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I wanted you to see -&#38;nbsp;2019



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Image courtesey of Eli Gordon. 2019


I lashed a mirror to a branch, with a handle made of hair that same colour as my own dyed hair. Knelt beside a creek in a frilly, lacey dress, I cut an undercut into my long, blonde hair. The act, witnessed by the forest and the creek, becomes more expansive and less easily understood in traditional designations of queerness by the forest. It instead becomes something more queer and affective.
I wanted you to see is an exploration of queer coding and ancestry outside of mainstream designations of queerness, instead trying to locate queer identity within ecology to envision restorative futures, where generative, meaningful bonds are driven by non-extractive and queer desire.


	
	



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		<title>Dying to be like Auntie</title>
				
		<link>https://alexabunnell.com/Dying-to-be-like-Auntie-1</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2020 22:56:18 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Alexa Bunnell - artist and writer</dc:creator>

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Dying to be like auntie - 2019


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‘Dying to be like auntie’ (2019)&#38;nbsp;is a performance circling around envisioning new ceremonies.
Eyre and Bunnell begin the performance off stage, letting an audio recording of
Bunnell trying to learn a Doukhobor hymn play over the PA. Their voice fades as
it’s replaced with a recording of her great grandparents singing the same song.
Eyre and Bunnell then enter together and sit at a table, speaking gently under
the audio, as they begin to touch up each others makeup. They then put on their
lace head scarves (commonly worn by Doukhobors in ceremony) and move towards a
metal stock tub filled with beet juice. They undress, revealing leather gear
under their traditional dresses. Eyre and Bunnell then take turns bathing in
the beet juice. They both exit the tub and stand beside the tub until the audio
finishes playing. 

The 20-minute audio
uses the audio clips of both Eyre and Bunnell’s ancestors, including singing
and describing their experiences in the Sons of Freedom. Other voices filter in
as well, describing ideas surrounding ‘good Canadians’, the experience of being
assimilated, and vital concepts of Doukhobor belief. A beat plays underneath
the voice clips, the two clap one foot stomp of “We Will Rock You” by Queen, a
reference to queer culture and icons and their associated memorial and ceremony.Dying to be like auntie forms new rituals to imagine as queer
Doukhobors, envisioning new methods of care and embodied remembering. This
becomes the establishment of ceremony specific to Eyre and Bunnell’s
relationships to their queer Doukhoborness, while referencing queer culture
through a harnessing of tangible queer signifiers including drag, gender
performance, kink culture and resistive methods utilized by queer bodies. The
work simultaneously acts as memorial, documentation, narrative, ritual and
ceremony. These methods of queering act as vehicles of (queer) resistance and
assists in enabling a space for two outcast identities to exist within their
inaccessibility and assimilation. ‘Dying to be like auntie’ establishes
an indirect narrative as Eyre and Bunnell translate themselves into an
emotionally informed representation of the queer Doukhobor.&#38;nbsp;








	
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