The Synthetic Collective + The Centre for Sustainable Curating
Exhibitions
Le synthétique au cœur de l’humain, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, France, 2023
Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Canada, 2021
Ist Das Kunst Oder Kann Das Weg: Curating Waste, Cohen Commons, Western University, Canada, 2022.
Collection of Dreams, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Canada, 2022.
Artist Material Fund, Artlab Gallery, Western University, Canada, 2022.
Residencies
The Sustainable Institution, LUMA Arles, Arles, France, 2024
Research Residency, Evergreen Brickworks, Toronto, Canada, 2023
Articles, Exhibition Reviews, and Interviews
Karen Donoghue. “Seeing the Air We Break, an Interview with Artist Christina Battle” (article covers the CSC and A Collection of Dreams), Local Haze, February 21, 2023.
“The Centre for Sustainable Curating,” From Unsettling to UN/Making podcast series, Robert McGlaughlin Art Gallery and Queen’s University, January 2023.
Maïlys Celeux-Lanval, “How artists use plastic to talk about ecology,” Beaux Arts, December 2, 2022.
Julie Chaizemartin, “Le plastique, objet politiquement chargé,” Transfuge Magazine, 2022.
Guillaume Benoit, “Le synthétique au cœur de l’humain, Centre culturel canadien,” Slash/Paris, 2022.
Coalition of Museums for Climate Justice. “CMCJ Proud to Partner on Research Project with the Centre for Sustainable Curating,” May 18, 2022.
Noémie Fortin, Synthetic Collective, in Esse, Winter 2022.
Melanie Kloetzel. “Artists Organize to Offer New Visions for Tackling Climate Change,” The Conversation May 17, 2022.
“Unsettling museums,” Interview by Danielle Deveau, Midtown Radio, 2021.
Jayne Wilkinson, “An Aesthetic of Enough”, Momus, 2021.
Inayat Singh & Alice Hopton, “Industrial plastic is spilling into the Great Lakes and no one’s regulating it” CBC Science, 2021.
“Plastic Pellets in the Great Lakes” CBC TV’s The National, 2021.
Leah Sandals. “A Question of Access.” Canadian Art, December 10, 2020.
Leah Collins, “What does it take to make art green?” in CBC Arts, January 21, 2020.
Chris Hampton, “The Green Cube,” Canadian Art Magazine, Fall 2018.
Bibliography
Kirsty Robertson/CSC. “Les climats intérieurs et extérieurs: faire face à l’urgence climatique dans les musées,” Vie des Arts 268 (Automne 2022), pp. 50-53.
The Synthetic Collective (Ian A. Arturo, Sara L. Belontz, Tegan Moore, Kirsty Robertson, Kelly Wood, Kelly Jazvac, Heather Davis, Kelly Wood, Christina Battle), A DIY Fieldguide to Reducing the environmental Impact of Art Exhibitions. 2021.
The Synthetic Collective (Corcoran, P.L, Johanna de Haan Ward, Ian A. Arturo, Sara L. Belontz, Tegan Moore, Carylyn M. Hill-Svehla, Kirsty Robertson, Kelly Wood, Kelly Jazvac), A comprehensive investigation of industrial plastic pellets on beaches across the Laurentian Great Lakes and the factors governing their distribution, Science of the Total Environment, Vol. 747, 10 December 2020, 141227.
Corcoran, P.L., Jazvac, K. “The consequence that is plastiglomerate.” Nature, 1, 6–7 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-019-0010-9
The Synthetic Collective (Sara L. Belontz, Patricia L. Corcoran, Heather Davis, Kathleen A. Hill, Kelly Jazvac, Kirsty Robertson, Kelly Wood), “Embracing an Interdisciplinary Approach to Plastics Pollution Awareness and Action” in Ambio, 2019.
Patricia Corcoran, Charles Moore and Kelly Jazvac, “An anthropogenic marker horizon in the future rock record.” GSA Today. Vol. 24 No. 6, June 2014.
Funding and Awards
2022 Concordia University Internal Grant for ‘New Frontiers in Research Fund’ Development Grant
2022 Canada Council for the Arts: Strategic Funds and Initiatives – Innovation Strategy Fund: Cultivate Grants, The Institute for Public Art and Sustainability (IPAS) (Evergreen Brickworks PI, Partners: Synthetic Collective, Centre for Sustainable Curating, Indigenous Visual Culture Program at OCADU, Artist Material Fund).
2022 Strategic Priorities Fund, Western University, “Teaching and Sharing Strategies for Sustainability in the Museums Sector.”
2022 Radboud-Western Collaboration Fund, “Curating Waste: Exploring Future-Oriented and Sustainable Museum Practices in the Netherlands and Canada.”
2022 Honorary Mention, CMA Award of Outstanding Achievement, Exhibition Category, Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through.
2021 Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Connection Grant: “Sharing Knowledge with Environmental Awareness at the Centre for Sustainable Curating.”
2021 Western University WSS-SSHRB “Imagining Change: Three Events for the Centre for Sustainable Curating.”
2020 Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Connection Grant: “Plastic Heart: Art and Museum as Catalyst in Tackling Plastics Pollution”
2017 Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant: “Understanding Plastics Pollution: Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Forensic Methodology”
2016 Western University Centre for Environment and Sustainability Seed Grant
2016 Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council application assistance grant
2013 Plastics Pollution Research: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Bridge Grant for interdisciplinary plastics pollution research project