Finding what Grows is an audio walk created by Lisa Myers that calls for remembering and learning from the garden originally planted by Mike MacDonald at Gage Park for the exhibition Zone 6b: Art in the Environment (2000). Guiding listeners around Gage Park, this audio walk invites us to consider the relationships and interconnection between land, humans, pollinators, and plants, always conscious of nearby extractive and refinement industries. Finding what Grows encourages collective remembering and learning from an Indigenous garden artwork.

The starting place for the walk is at the pollinator gardens located near the children's museum in Gage Park, Hamilton. There is a large anchor there that has been placed between the two perennial gardens. The audio walk is activated via a QR code that can be scanned using a smartphones.

Finding what Grows

Elizabeth Chitty is an interdisciplinary artist whose work encompasses a diversity of media. Interdisciplinarity has been at the core of her artistic practice for 40 years. Her visual art installations are usually video-based including sound. She has created public artists’ gardens, constructed photographs and has worked with community-based strategies. Her performances may reflect dance or performance art lineages and respond to concert settings or public practice; she is equally at home in the gallery, on the stage or in the public realm.

Finding what Grows

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