We are Mia + Eric, an interdisciplinary artist duo from Calgary whose collaborative work moves between transdisciplinary research and community engagement. For nearly 20 years, we have worked across visual art, performance, writing, multi-species ethnography, and public policy to explore how people live together in relation to the environments, systems, and species that shape our shared world. Our practice is relational, site-responsive, and community-oriented. We approach art as a form of inquiry—a way of thinking with others, testing ideas in public, and transforming research into collective experience.

We grew out of Calgary’s artist-run and performance communities, where collaboration and experimentation shaped our independent approach to making work. Our practice moves slowly, by design, treating time, relationship, and process as our primary materials. The collaborations we build, the knowledge exchanged, and the networks of care that emerge through our projects are as integral to the work as any visual or performative outcome. Our process often unfolds over years, guided by listening, dialogue, and the specific needs of the people and environments we work with.

Since 2008, we’ve created 40 projects, joined 30 residencies, toured to over 40 cities and rural spaces, and produced more than a dozen publications. We work in contemporary performance and visual art contexts, including galleries, festivals, and post-secondary institutions. Our work has been presented at Arctic Arts Festival (Harstad, Norway), GIFT Festival (Gateshead, UK), Matchbox (Germany), Buenos Aires International Festival (Argentina), Kelowna Art Gallery (BC), University of Saskatchewan (SK), Contemporary Calgary, Esker Foundation, and the Art Gallery of Alberta, among others.

Our practice operates on two interconnected scales. The first includes touring and gallery-based works that share ideas publicly—such as In a Strange Place, Future Perfect, and Hello Neighbours. The second includes long-term, site-responsive research processes that unfold over years through residencies and community partnerships, including 3 WOODS, Brains, Strains + Other Domains, and No Longer Impossible. Each mode sustains the other: public works circulate ideas born of deep engagement, while durational projects deepen through the communities they reach.

Currently Artists-in-Residence at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, we are developing Brains, Strains + Other Domains, a multi-year research project exploring neurodivergence and the sensory, cognitive, and relational worlds of animals, plants, and fungi. In 2025 we founded The Entanglement Bureau, an arts-led ecological think tank that explores new frameworks for co-regulation and ethical interdependence between human and ecological systems. In 2027 we will publish Becoming Forest, a resource for artists and communities interested in socially engaged, ecologically informed practice.

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