Student Research
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Description: Collaborative performances between students and trees using contact microphones and touch gestures. Created for MDIA300/VAST320 - Sound, Media, Ecology under professor Julie Andreyev, this project sought to expand the performer's awareness of a nonhuman actor, their chosen tree. Beginning with a Tree Awareness meditation, the performers then experimented with touch gestures, actively listening to the tree's response and acoustic characteristics. These gestures were then brought together into an improvisational performance, in concert with the tree, the performer, and other nonhuman agents such as birds or wind. Recorded on site at Jericho Beach park unless otherwise noted.Date: 2020
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Description: Student podcasts created for CCID202 + CCID302 + HUMN205: Nature Speaking, with instructor Sarah Van Borek.Date: 2020
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Description: This project was created for MDIA300/VAST320 - Media, Sound, Ecology under professor Julie Andreyev. The intention was to expand student's awareness of non-human actors and explore methods of interspecies creativity through indeterminacy combined with passive video recording techniques. Students first prepared themselves with a full-body awareness exercise to heighten their senses, and slow down their observational pace. Students were asked to find "micro-locations" around their chosen site (the majority as part of a workshop at Wreck Beach, Vancouver), and used a still, passive camera to record each scene. After recording, students cross-referenced these recordings with their observational notes, and analyzed the clips for non-human agency. For example— the actions of a katydid, the tide-revealed seaweed gripping its holdfast, the movement of light on a spiderweb as celestial bodies shift. These events formed the basis of the editing choices and were brought together into a final piece, as students noticed a simple narrative unfolding co-created by the nonhuman actors in front of their camera.Date: 2020
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Description: The manifesto and toolkit offers a starting place for ethical creative inquiry when making work with other people or community from an institutional position, such as student, artist-in-resident, or faculty. It is in response to the author’s experience as a community practice artist who spent their undergraduate degree at Emily Carr University frustrated with the overwhelming pressure to create fast-paced, ethically questionable projects using community as subject. Manifesto on Neighbourliness: Ethics Toolkit for Creative Community Inspiration collates knowledge shared via conversation, reading assignments, making mistakes, and other forms of interdependent inquiry. Mickey L.D. Morgan explores ethics through themes such as care, mitigating violence, responsibility, while at the same time an attempt at practicing these through situating themself within the text.Date: 2022
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Description: Mapping East Van by Mickey Morgan. "This is a map of East Van, and in no way is it objective. No map is. From their legacy in documenting/justifying colonization to a visual aid for developers and city “revitalizers” chopping up the Downtown Eastside and other anchors of East Van into smaller and smaller pieces, maps are collections for stories of violence. So too, can maps hold tales of resistance and hope and those who refuse to keep quiet, those who know that a story told can never die."Date: 2021Name: Morgan, Mickey