Current // Process + Place
Video directed, filmed & edited by Winona Julian
Current // Process + Place was curated by Bridgette Badowich with curatorial assistance from Winona Julian
Current brings together the works and creative processes of Calgary artists through installation, performance and socially engaged practice. At times ecological, social and deeply rooted in process, Current invites artists to slow down and work directly within the liminal space of the river's edge, the histories it holds, its riparian habitat, transition to the urban environment, and the material relations both carried and deposited.
Artist participation is site-specific, and interventions are simultaneously temporary, time-based and socially engaged. Current merges an outdoor exhibition program with musical and movement-based performance, installation, sound, participatory workshops and facilitated interdisciplinary tours.
Current works with these concepts at the river’s edge in Moh’kins’tsis, Wîchîspa, Guts’ists’i and Calgary, a place of continued generational significance to the Nations of the Blackfoot Confederacy (the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai), the Stoney Nakoda (the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and the Goodstoney), the Tsuut’ina First Nation and the Métis Nation within Alberta (Districts 5 and 6).
Curator:
Bridgette Badowich an artist, administrator, and interdisciplinary practitioner and based in Treaty 7 territory in Mohkinstsis.
Her practice spans drawing, photo-based methods, sculpture, and rudimentary craft to investigate elemental formation and materiality in relation to time, memory, and place, and the notion of nostalgia as personal artefact. Grounded in a relational exploration of how places, materials, and histories connect to one another, this work unfolds through an autoethnographic lens in close dialogue with her landscape practice.
Bridgette is a graduate of the University of Calgary (MLA, 2025) and Emily Carr University of Art + Design (BFA, 2016) and was recently named a 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale Fellow and LAF Olmsted Scholar. Her work has been developed through residencies at Coppermoss (Tuwanek, BC), Nes (Skagaströnd, Iceland), and Obras (Évoramonte, Portugal).
Graphic Designer:
Claudia Weigelsberger
This programming is graciously supported by
Artist participation is site-specific, and interventions are simultaneously temporary, time-based and socially engaged. Current merges an outdoor exhibition program with musical and movement-based performance, installation, sound, participatory workshops and facilitated interdisciplinary tours.
Current works with these concepts at the river’s edge in Moh’kins’tsis, Wîchîspa, Guts’ists’i and Calgary, a place of continued generational significance to the Nations of the Blackfoot Confederacy (the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai), the Stoney Nakoda (the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and the Goodstoney), the Tsuut’ina First Nation and the Métis Nation within Alberta (Districts 5 and 6).
Curator:
Bridgette Badowich an artist, administrator, and interdisciplinary practitioner and based in Treaty 7 territory in Mohkinstsis.
Her practice spans drawing, photo-based methods, sculpture, and rudimentary craft to investigate elemental formation and materiality in relation to time, memory, and place, and the notion of nostalgia as personal artefact. Grounded in a relational exploration of how places, materials, and histories connect to one another, this work unfolds through an autoethnographic lens in close dialogue with her landscape practice.
Bridgette is a graduate of the University of Calgary (MLA, 2025) and Emily Carr University of Art + Design (BFA, 2016) and was recently named a 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale Fellow and LAF Olmsted Scholar. Her work has been developed through residencies at Coppermoss (Tuwanek, BC), Nes (Skagaströnd, Iceland), and Obras (Évoramonte, Portugal).
Graphic Designer:
Claudia Weigelsberger
This programming is graciously supported by