About this Event
The Only Animal is hosting an 'eco' edition of What Lab's Exquisite Pressure Residency. We asked 3 artist groups to:
- explore a novel creation process reflecting ‘eco-centric’ values or concepts
- initiate a process or relationship that could have a life beyond the show
This March, join us for a series of relaxed 'Slow Social Club' meet-ups to share research, experiments, and methods inspired by the artists' residencies, leading to a showing of the new works March 27-28, 2026 at What Lab.
making mobiles: dynamic entanglements
We’ll work with the mobile as a dynamic form, an entity of balance, movement, and entanglement, shaped by touch, gravity and relationship.
As we build and play with balance, we will engage with questions of place, movement, and connection through bodies, materials, memories, and the lands we are shaped by. We invite objects as portals carrying personal, collective, and land memory.
We invite you to bring small objects that fit easily in one hand. Here are some prompts for collecting:
- something reclaimed
- a portal to home
- something that holds traces (elemental markings, memory, ancestral)
- something with a promise
- A childhood fascination
- A glimmer (something that makes your body at ease or feel safe)
Some examples: dried flowers, parts of a broken clock, sticks, stones, shells, a tiny spoon, an ancestor’s ring, a pinecone. You’re welcome to bring whatever feels meaningful. We’ll have some materials and tools available. No experience is needed. This is a space for curiosity, making, and being together!
Please see UNIT/PITT's Accessibility Notes for for detailed info about parking, washrooms, wheelchair access to the space, and more.
Free to attend but space is very limited. Please RSVP to reserve your spot.
We welcome your questions and access requests. Please email us at [email protected].
About Slow Social Club
Regular meet-ups to share methods for slow, process-led artmaking. Each edition responds to local themes, materials and collaborators and becomes a co-creation with our communities. We offer soft tactics to remember and repair our relationships to place. See past editions here.
About The Only Animal
Your companion through the climate crisis. Slow art & community on unceded Coast Salish lands.
The Only Animal (TOA) brings art and artists to the heart of the climate crisis. We foreground social connection and slow creation to offer a form of environmental activism that takes place in the folds of our everyday lives.
Our 'slow social' events reflect our understanding that transformation is an ongoing process, not a single experience, product, or show.
Our current projects explore how place-based creativity can set the stage for climate care and sensitize relationships between people and place. We prioritize long-term and porous relationships with the public and our artist collaborators, shifting what we do in response to local curiosities and needs.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
UNIT/PITT, 2954 West 4th Avenue, Vancouver, Canada
CAD 0.00
