Decay and Regeneration Take Centre Stage at the Rhubarb Festival

Architect Andrea Shin Ling’s bio-design installation anchors Canada’s longest-running experimental works festival

The world’s largest and longest-running queer theatre played host to a large-scale installation by award-winning designer and architect Andrea Shin Ling this year as part of their Annual Rhubarb Festival. Since 1979, Rhubarb has been a hotbed of experimentation, exploring new possibilities in art-making and performance.

Curated by festival director Clayton Lee, Andrea’s project, Calculus of an infinite rot, part 1, experiments with the designed decay of organic material with the intent that they fuel new creation, highlighting the coupled nature of decay and regeneration. Collected from fallen maple and spruce trees, 34 stumps have been processed to…