The Audain Faculty of Art and the FRMS 300: Art Forums course present a hands-on workshop on DIY approaches to making bio-materials with artist Josephine Lee on Wednesday, September 29 @ 4:00 pm.

In this workshop, you will be introduced to the basics of making bioplastics while considering how you approach the material choices of your own artistic practice. Focusing on DIY approaches to creating bioplastics, you will learn how to make a variety of biomaterial samples from a few simple ingredients and basic home tools. We will work through these fundamentals as well as begin to consider how to customize and adapt their color, texture, shape, and form. Additionally, you will be given a list of resources into the vast, open-source network of biomaterial experimentation being done by artists around the world in order that you might continue your research beyond the scope of this workshop.

Josephine Lee’s interdisciplinary practice is heavily informed by the psychic violence of cultural assimilation and naturalization through migration. Lee’s sculptures, installations, and performances intersect narratives of dispossession and nationalism, making explicit how ideas of place are entangled within politics of citizenship and national identity. Within this framework, Lee’s materials and forms both signify and complicate overlapping identity formations, and notions of home and belonging. Lee’s current research examines how technological transformations connect directly to systems of political power, environmental degradation, and racial inequality. Lee is currently a sessional instructor at the University of British Columbia, and a doctoral student at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts' inaugural PhD in Contemporary Arts program.

This workshop is open to ECU students only. Please email biomaterialsworkshop@ecuad.ca to register. We have 15 spaces available.