About

Artist Statement

November, 2025

Kelly Jaclynn Andres (she/her) is a rural, research-based artist whose practice intertwines ecological art, performance, and new media to explore how human and more-than-human worlds listen, grow, and sense together. Living beside a remote alkaline lake in Treaty 6 territory (near Ferintosh, AB), Andres cultivates experimental systems that merge biology, technology, and care, where lichen, duckweed, SCOBYs, and AI share agency in processes of transformation.

Her work draws from posthumanist, feminist, and environmental humanities frameworks, shaping installations and performances that unfold as living, time-based ecologies. Projects such as You, Me the Lichen & Spore, SaccharoSonics, and Water Lentil is the Fancy Name for Duckweed examine bio-remediation, fermentation, and speculative design as poetic and ethical methods. Each gesture, from tending a microbial culture to fine-tuning an open source and locally hosted AI model, becomes a conversation about interdependence, sensory attunement, and the porous borders between art and life.

Through “tender curation,” Andres invites collaborative gestures with the public and other species, creating unstable, process-based environments where growth and decay coexist. Her multi-sensory installations operate as active residues and as lively archives that trace the emotional, ecological, and technological entanglements of contemporary existence.

Land Acknowledgement

My studio is situated south of amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton), within Treaty 6 territory on the traditional lands of the nêhiyawak (Cree), Niitsitapi (Blackfoot), Métis, Nakota Sioux, Saulteaux, and Dene peoples. I acknowledge their enduring relationships with these lands, waters, and skies.

As a settler artist, I approach this place with gratitude and responsibility. My work grows from its rhythms; the wind across alkaline water; the shifting light over aspen and grassland; and from an awareness that artistic practice here is always entangled with layered histories of belonging and displacement.

Contact: kelly dot andres at gmail dot com