Bio Materials Workshop with Sun Forest

February 27, 2026 5-7pm

Eastern Edge Studio (72 Harbour Drive), 5-7pm February 27, 2026

An introductory workshop engaging with biomaterials as a fluid, complex space of radical
possibility. Learn the fundamentals of making bioplastics and biocomposites as we collectively
engage with this open-source technology and discuss ideas relating to ancestral knowledge,
diasporic transformations, and more-than-human relations.

How do we actively resist and repair ourselves from systems of harm and embody acts of
radical individual and collective healing? How do we reorient new bio-based designs and
technologies into artistic practices that promote racial and social equity, as well as ecological
regeneration?

Biomaterials technology is still a relatively new form. As a commercial product, biomaterials in
the form of compostable plastics, pulp, and fibres have been used to promote biodegradable
packaging for consumer goods, in fashion to improve recycling of textiles, and within industrial
manufacturing to facilitate renewable material cycles. This workshop reflects the artist’s
research practice which seeks to reorganise the trajectory of biomaterials, to untether it from
consumer production and recognize its potential as a living network of organisms that propagate
change and promote environmental stability. The aim of this workshop is to move through the
research non-linearly to expand our understanding of social and ecological healing and amplify
the complexities of marginalized lived experience.

Sun Forest is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores how racial violence, social
inequity, and environmental crisis imprint themselves on bodies, materials, and landscapes.
Moving across sculpture, performance, video, and installation, she investigates these
conditions while imagining forms of resilience, care, and speculative reorientation. Her
recent residencies include the European Ceramic Work Centre, Arctic Circle, Belkin Gallery
with the Quantum Matter Institute, Deer Lake, Diasporic Futurisms, and BANFF. She is a
recipient of support from the BC Arts Council; Canada Council for the Arts, Centrum
Foundations, and Griffin Art Projects. Sun is a SSHRC Doctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser
University.

Register Here

Times and Locations