Eastern Edge Artist-Run Centre

LXCL:Eastern Edge (72 Harbour Drive), 5-7pm February 27, 2026

Bio Materials Workshop with visiting artist Sun Forest

An introductory workshop engaging with biomaterials as a fluid, complex space of radical possibility. Learn the fundamentals of making bioplastics and biocomposites as we collectively engage with this open-source technology and discuss ideas relating to ancestral knowledge, diasporic transformations, and more-than-human relations.&nbsp; How do we actively resist and repair ourselves from systems of harm and embody acts of radical individual and collective healing? How do we reorient new bio-based designs and technologies into artistic practices that promote racial and social equity, as well as ecological regeneration?&nbsp; Biomaterials technology is still a relatively new form. As a commercial product, biomaterials in the form of compostable plastics, pulp, and fibres have been used to promote biodegradable packaging for consumer goods, in fashion to improve recycling of textiles, and within industrial manufacturing to facilitate renewable material cycles. This workshop reflects the artist&rsquo;s research practice which seeks to reorganize the trajectory of biomaterials, to untether it from consumer production and recognize its potential as a living network of organisms that propagate change and promote environmental stability. The aim of this workshop is to move through the research non-linearly to expand our understanding of social and ecological healing and amplify the complexities of marginalized lived experience.&nbsp; Sun Forest is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores how racial violence, social inequity, and environmental crisis imprint themselves on bodies, materials, and landscapes. Moving across sculpture, performance, video, and installation, she investigates these conditions while imagining forms of resilience, care, and speculative reorientation. Her recent residencies include the European Ceramic Work Centre, Arctic Circle, Belkin Gallery with the Quantum Matter Institute, Deer Lake, Diasporic Futurisms, and BANFF. She is a recipient of support from the BC Arts Council; Canada Council for the Arts, Centrum Foundations, and Griffin Art Projects. Sun is a SSHRC Doctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University.

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An introductory workshop engaging with biomaterials as a fluid, complex space of radical possibility. Learn the fundamentals of making bioplastics and biocomposites as we collectively engage with this open-source technology and discuss ideas relating to ancestral knowledge, diasporic transformations, and more-than-human relations.  How do we actively resist and repair ourselves from systems of harm and embody acts of radical individual and collective healing? How do we reorient new bio-based designs and technologies into artistic practices that promote racial and social equity, as well as ecological regeneration?  Biomaterials technology is still a relatively new form. As a commercial product, biomaterials in the form of compostable plastics, pulp, and fibres have been used to promote biodegradable packaging for consumer goods, in fashion to improve recycling of textiles, and within industrial manufacturing to facilitate renewable material cycles. This workshop reflects the artist’s research practice which seeks to reorganize the trajectory of biomaterials, to untether it from consumer production and recognize its potential as a living network of organisms that propagate change and promote environmental stability. The aim of this workshop is to move through the research non-linearly to expand our understanding of social and ecological healing and amplify the complexities of marginalized lived experience.  Sun Forest is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores how racial violence, social inequity, and environmental crisis imprint themselves on bodies, materials, and landscapes. Moving across sculpture, performance, video, and installation, she investigates these conditions while imagining forms of resilience, care, and speculative reorientation. Her recent residencies include the European Ceramic Work Centre, Arctic Circle, Belkin Gallery with the Quantum Matter Institute, Deer Lake, Diasporic Futurisms, and BANFF. She is a recipient of support from the BC Arts Council; Canada Council for the Arts, Centrum Foundations, and Griffin Art Projects. Sun is a SSHRC Doctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University.

Eastern Edge Artist-Run Centre

Arts for Equity Symposium-Bio Materials Workshop with visiting artist Sun Forest

72 Harbour Dr

Bio Materials Workshop with visiting artist Sun Forest

Free