PEDAGOGY & COLLECTIVE CARE

A SSHRC-funded national research initiative led by Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter to map the histories, infrastructures, and future directions of bioart across Canada, through knowledge synthesis and public engagement. BioArt in Canada is also currently a research-group-in-residence within the Artistic Intelligence Forum.

WhiteFeather's curatorial work moves across academic, exhibition, and unconventional contexts. Projects span apartment vernissages bringing together painting, video installation, music performance, poetry readings, and interactive works; a mini performance festival; exhibitions of student work; a sex toy exhibition engaging embodied perspectives on sexuality and creativity; an international textile exhibition focused on digital textiles; and a season long exhibition at the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic.

Bioart Coven is an international technofeminist collective of witches, artists, and biohackers reclaiming biotechnology through ritual and experiments in kitchen science to foster greater bodily autonomy and interpersonal power. Working through unconventional biolab spaces, the coven engages fermentation, bodily materials, and DIY tools to activate the body as both teacher and keeper of personal and collective knowledge.

Dr. Hunter's pedagogical practice spans academic, experimental, and community-based contexts, integrating mentorship, curriculum development, material innovation, and lab-based instruction. She has taught internationally for 25 years across textiles, bioart, feminist technoscience, and expanded material practices, supporting artists and researchers in developing independent methodologies. Teaching is a reciprocal and generative process, where new knowledges emerge through hands-on experimentation and collective worldbuilding.

Workshops are sites of collective experimentation, where participants engage hands-on with creative practices, collaborative problem solving, and community building. Delivered across domestic, institutional, and community spaces, these sessions foster learning through making and shared inquiry. Through critical framing, guided exercises in material exploration, and interative feedback loops, participants develop their own approaches to working with material fluency, living systems, bodily knowledge, and feminist technoscience.