CLAW (Collaborative Learning in Art n’ Wildness) is a youth-centred offshoot of Tooth n’ Fang situated on the Pearson College UWC campus; the traditional territory of the Sci’anew (Beecher Bay) First Nation.
This program is designed to connect youth with their local environment in experimental and exploratory ways in order to further deepen and develop our relationship with the non-human world and seek reverance for native species as stimulus for exciting new projects to arise.
Each month students engage in an experimental workshop lead by Lucas Olscamp designed to educate and investigate a series of local Vancouver Islandand species and transform the results of these workshops into new interactive, sculptural, or pefrormative pieces.
One of these pieces includes A chorus of immortal toxins — a site-specific mask ritual that takes a critical look at the impact of pollutants in our world. This project will have its world premiere at the prague quadrennial festival in czechia in june 2023.
