Creative Connector Updated on Apr 10, 2026 2 min read

To Re-convene // To Shoreline

Tour-ready project by Kim Kitchen.

Keywords: short film, visual art, exhibition, soundscape, spoken word, audio

Supported by two grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, from 2019 to 2022 I created, developed and produced To Re-convene // To Shoreline, an installation-based body of intermedia work including film and large-scale projection, 6-channel spoken word audio, large-scale photographs printed on textile, mixed media sculpture and an exhibition catalogue.

To Reconvene // To Shoreline offers broad views into Kim Kitchen’s lifelong, layered relationship with the Earth as Mother, parallel to her generous reflections on the process of finding oneself, laid bare - whether that be within shorelines and forests, the topography of time, or the ever-shifting landscape that is human life.
Ample fabrics printed with the landscape and Kim’s body are suspended and draped, inhabiting the gallery space and conveying an overwhelming sense of reverence, deepening, and acceptance. The 16-minute film that accompanies the exhibition intimately details the creation of this body of work, while revealing the many layers and rituals imbued with care and consideration within its making. Overlaying sounds of waves, wind and spoken word encircle the rites.

To Reconvene // To Shoreline is unique as a multidisciplinary installation that prioritizes accessibility. I believe that being resourceful in how we approach inclusion is key, as are the ways we welcome disabled folks in from the local community and beyond, to experience this work and ancillary programming.

About the Artist

Kim Kitchen is a multidisciplinary artist working in audio and film as a result of a debilitating and transformative illness. She explores collective cultural understandings of the female body, its intersections with and presence within the natural world. This is evident through the inclusion of ritual in her work - particularly in To Re-convene // To Shoreline - which draws on her lifelong connection to the Primordial Mother, and to knowledge of her ancestral homelands of old Europe. This ongoing research and consciousness has deeply influenced her artistic practice, which has been largely tactile, focused on painting, sculpture, installation and performance.

Currently, Kim engages her practice of critical inquiry of body/land relations and the self-reflexive relationship between ability and artistic production through largely multimedia approaches. With significant changes in mobility, old spaces become unknown insofar as the body must learn anew how to navigate through them. The familiar becomes unfamiliar: the body is tasked with relearning how to exist, reaching out in changed, renewed and ever-urgent ways through creativity.

Kim’s community activism is inclusive, celebratory, and exuberant. In contrast, her work is introspective, thoughtful, and prompts quiet reflection. Now more than ever, interdependence is fundamental for this disabled artist.