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LISA HIRMER

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 Lisa Hirmer is an interdisciplinary artist working in visual media, social practice, performance, and occasionally writing. She is primarily concerned with collective relationships—that which exists between things rather than simply within them—both in human communities/publics and in human relations with the more-than-human world. Her recent work looks at the forces that shape and transform human relationships with the complex ecologies that they are a part of, looking in particular for the traces left by the entangled connections between things. Lately, this work is focused on what it means to be living in a climate emergency and planetary collapse.
 
Hirmer's work finds a home both in traditional gallery contexts and an expanded field of other public and semi-public spaces. Her work has been shown in galleries across Canada and internationally, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Cambridge Art Galleries, Art Gallery of Guelph, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Peninsula Arts, Queens Museum, and Flux Factory, among others. Hirmer holds a master's in architecture from the University of Waterloo and is currently based in Guelph, Canada.

Hirmer joined the ECH community as a contributor to the April 22, 2021, online group exhibition Earth Day 2021: Stop Extinction! Restore the Earth. 
 
Visit her website here.  

EARTH DAY 2021: Stop Extinction! Restore the Earth 

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Lisa Hirmer, Emergency Signal, photograph, 2018
Lisa Hirmer, Emergency Signal
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​​ We—by which I mean everything living on this planet—are in an emergency. This was true before the COVID-19 pandemic began and it will be true after it ends. And as long as the climate crisis puts the planet’s capacity to support life at risk, we will continue to be in an emergency. As a generation who is unlikely to see its end, I’ve been working to make sense of what it means to be living life inside an emergency of this scale.
 
Unlike emergencies that are self-evident—floods, fires, earthquakes, as we now know dangerous viruses—the climate crisis has arrived slowly, is hard to see, and is felt differently by different people. Naming this emergency for what it is, is a way to start seeing it more clearly. Building emergency signals for the climate crisis is about keeping its urgency present.

Recent work by Lisa Hirmer

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Lisa Hirmer, Firestarts, photograph 2018
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Lisa Hirmer, Weather Watcher, photograph of installation, 2016-17
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Lisa Hirmer, Watching Dull Edges, series of 6 photographs, 2017
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Lisa Hirmer, Watching Dull Edges, series of 6 photographs, 2017
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Lisa Hirmer, Watching Dull Edges, series of 6 photographs, 2017


EDITORIAL TEAM

ONLINE FOUNDER
Tariq Hassan Gordon

COFOUNDERS & CURATORIAL ADVISORS 
 
Jamelie Hassan 
& Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Marnie Fleming, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou and Dan Smoke,  and Lucas Stenning 

COORDINATING EDITORS
Tariq Hassan Gordon & 
Olivia Mossuto

WEB DESIGN & SOCIAL MEDIA 
Tariq Hassan Gordon, Ira Kazi, Olivia Mossuto, Niloufar Salimi,  JoAnna Weil 

VIRTUAL TOUR
Andreas Buchwaldt

PRINT PUBLICATIONS
Blessy Augustine, Shelley Kopp, 
Olivia Mossuto

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Andreas Buchwaldt, Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Ira Kazi, ​Shelley Kopp, Ashar Mobeen, Niloufar Salimi,  Jenna Rose Sands, JoAnna Weil & Michelle Wilson. 

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OUR STORY
Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. Other former members of the board were: Debrann Eastabrook, Henry Eastabrook, Sharron Forrest, Wyn Geleynse, Janice Gurney, Jean Hay (1929 - 2008), Doug Mitchell, Kim Moodie, Gerard Pas, Peter Rist, Wanda Sawicki, Jean Spence and Jennie White. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website. 

This project is supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.
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E M B A S S Y  C U L T U R A L  H O U S E . C A

​London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.

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