FIELD NOTES

of The Kluane Research Station and the (RE)mediating Soil project in Yukon.

(Re)mediating Soils: Field Notes. A collaboration between the (Re)mediating Soils research team, the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, the Yukon Art Centre, the Woodstock Art Gallery, and the McMaster Museum of Art. Hess Gallery. Jan 30 – April 4, 2026 In the exhibition (Re)mediating Soils: Field Notes artists, scientists, and gardeners collaborate to explore how art and soil both encourage us to pause, to really look, and to experience time differently.

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Soil is relational

A collaboration among scientists, artists, and community members in Canada exploring new ways of being with soils.

Territorial acknowledgement

(Re)mediating Soils is a multi-site research-creation project that works across many Indigenous territories now known as Canada. Our work has taken place on lands stewarded since time immemorial by diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples, including Treaty and non-Treaty territories, urban Indigenous homelands, and sites of ongoing Indigenous governance.

We acknowledge that soil, land, and territory are not neutral research sites but living relations shaped by Indigenous laws, knowledge systems, and responsibilities that long predate settler institutions. We recognize the historical and ongoing impacts of colonization, land dispossession, and

As a project committed to relational, community-engaged research, we understand land acknowledgement not as a statement, but as a practice. We strive to work in ways that are accountable to place, responsive to Indigenous priorities, and grounded in respect, reciprocity, and care for the lands and peoples who make this work possible.

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