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How can we use migrant species as a conduit for learning about landscapes? A workshop series and research practice by Bhavika Sharma, FIBREGRAFT, continues to explore collectively working with invasive species while transforming them into new materials. This research began in the fall of 2023 during Bhavika’s master’s thesis research on the land-based practices of Hanji communities in the Kashmir Valley’s Dal Lake. Observing introduced migrant species at Dal lake, attuning, burrowing, and emerging in companionship with weaver, labourer, and dweller, probed Bhavika to consider new ways of looking at invasive species.
SUMMER 2025 • The Plumb Bar for Tunnel Mound Comeback,The Plumb, Toronto, ON
SUMMER 2025 • Phragmites Processing Sessions #1 and #2, in collaboration with Masumi Rodriguez and Elena Kirby, The Plumb, Toronto, ON
SPRING 2025 • Processing and Paper-making with Migrant Species in collaboration with the SEED Collective, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
FALL 2024 • Paper-making with Migrant Species, in collaboration with the Friends of Allan Gardens, Allan Gardens Conservatory, Toronto, ON
FALL 2024 • Paper-making with Migrant Species, in collaboration with RainscapeTO, Eglington Park Heritage Community Garden, Toronto, ON
SUMMER 2024• Processing and Paper-making with Migrant Species, in collaboration with Nikibii Dawadinna Giigwag, UTSC Farm, Scarborough, ON
RELATED TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS
SUMMER 2025• Artist Talk: Weedy Technologies, Guest Speaker for Tunnel Mound Comeback, The Plumb, Toronto, ON
Fall 2024 • Anatomy of a Fluid Landscape, Guest Speaker for LAN3051H: Landscape Research Methods, Daniels Faculty of Landscape Architecture and Design, Toronto, ON
RELATED WRITINGS AND PUBLICATIONS
FALL 2025 • Sprawl: Towards a Weedy, Rhizomatic Mapping of Landscapes. School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB
FALL 2025 • Anatomy of a Fluid Landscape, Scaffold Journal Vol 2: Drafting Liminalities, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
FALL 2025 • Weedy: An Extended Studio Visit. Collaboration with Shalaka Jadhav, Kanata Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON
SUMMER 2025 • Tunnel Mound Comeback, Edited by Chloe Grodon-Chow, The Plumb, Toronto, ON.
Bhavika’s other projects have been previously shown at Trinity Square Video (Toronto) and the Factory Media Centre (Hamilton). She has also completed artist residencies at The Plumb (Toronto) and Hamilton Artists Inc. (Hamilton). Bhavika holds an Honours BA in Visual Arts and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Toronto.
CONTACT
@fibre_graft
vikabsharma@gmail.com