Raewyn Martyn

  • Chicago River & Canal Walking Tour: History of Timber Extraction, Deep Time Chicago, 2017

    Chicago River & Canal Walking Tour: History of Timber Extraction, Deep Time Chicago, 2017

    Chicago River & Canal Walking Tour: History of Timber Extraction, 2017Canal Origins Park, 2701 S. Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL In conjunction with the exhibition Edward Hines National Forest and a Walk About It project of Deep Time Chicago Sara Black, Raewyn Martyn and Brian Holmes took visitors to the convergence of the Chicago River’s south…

  • Edward Hines National Forest, 2018

    Edward Hines National Forest, 2018

    Edward Hines National Forest, 2018Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago Sara Black and Raewyn Martyn collaborate to create the Edward Hines National Forest, an immersive built landscape that traces a material from plant to lumber and cellulose to produce hybrid forms that expose relationships between humans, the human-made and the larger ecosystem. Hines Lumber Company was…

  • Attention Feeder, 2016

    Attention Feeder, 2016

    The Attention Feeder, 2016Sector 2337, Chicago, IL The Attention Feeder is a two hour collective exercise in prolonged attention.  We will begin by creating a shared vocabulary for use during a series of guided narratives on the interwoven relationship between living, nonliving and human perception, as a way to perceive in less anthropocentric ways. Texts included…

  • Tinker Town: Brokenness is Openness

    Tinker Town: Brokenness is Openness

    Tinker Town: Brokenness is Openness, 2015Museum of Contemporary ArtFamily Day WorkshopChicago, ILwith Raewyn Martyn Tinker Town: Brokenness is Openness, was a workshop created for child participants at the MCA’s Family Day. Raewyn Martyn and Sara Black created an open landscape of full scale tables adjacent to an area on the floor filled with disassembled and broken…

  • 19 Admirals Way, 2014-15

    19 Admirals Way, 2014-15

    19 Admirals Way, 2014-15 [Design Build Workshop Leader]Cantebury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealandhttps://19admiralsway.wordpress.com The Whole House Reuse (WHR) project is organized by Rekindle, a New Zealand building waste reuse initiative established after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. Project organizers gained access to one earthquake-damaged home that was slated for demolition, and collaborated with contractors to take the building…

  • Attention Feeder, 2014

    Attention Feeder, 2014

    The Attention Feeder, 2014 [Workshop Leader]ACRE residency, Steuben, WI The Attention Lab, a two-session workshop that took place at ACRE residency in the summer of 2014, gathered participants in the pursuit of prolonged attention and understanding of the Anthropocene. To help perceive this human made geologic era, we engaged in the shared reading of texts, discussion of…

  • In Formation, 2014

    In Formation, 2014

    In Formation, 2014Harper College Exhibition SpacePalatine, IL Using individual and shared processes of building and painting, artists Raewyn Martyn and Sara Black created emergent surfaces and structures within the gallery architecture. By allowing the work to unfold throughout the exhibition period in real time, this installation rendered duration and action equally significant to any resulting…