Past Event
Exhibition • Contemporary Art
Jun. 5 → Jun. 29, 2025
Deep Gazing – PHI Montréal 2025
A project brought to you by The Sisters of the Celestial Order of Nephology
407 Saint-Pierre Street
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Meet the Artists
Artists Nina Vroemen and Erin Hill form The Sisters of the Celestial Order of Nephology, an interdisciplinary project exploring new ways of connecting with the environment and with oneself through somatic experiences of listening and gazing.
Drawing on nephology—the study of clouds—they create collective performances, sound works, and celestial prophecies shaped by public participation. Inspired by Pauline Oliveros and her concept of Deep Listening, they have developed their own practice of Deep Gazing, where contemplation and intuition open up another way of inhabiting the sky.
About the artists
Photo: Curtis Perry
Erin Hill + Nina Vroemen
The Sisters of the Celestial Order of Nephology (the study of clouds) is an interdisciplinary performance project by Horizon Factory (Erin Hill and Nina Vroemen). Forming in 2019, during a dance residency at Studio 303 (Montreal), the fictitious, pseudo-sect of two, blue cloaked, atmospheric-nuns were called by the unseizable state of clouds and the ephemeral narratives that form them. These narratives are personal, environmental, futuristic, and potential warning signs. The Sisters engage across multiple mediums and disciplines, including performance, video, radio, workshops, and writing. In 2024, they printed the prototype for their forthcoming publication Deep Gazing. They have presented their work at RURART (Cookshire-Eaton, 2020), at the Fonderie Darling (Montreal, 2020), at the Third Space Gallery (Saint John, New Brunswick, 2021), at Artscape Gibraltar (Toronto, 2022), at CCOV (Montreal, 2022), at SummerWorks (Toronto, 2023), at Eastern Bloc (Montreal, 2023), at the Performing Arts Forum (Saint-Erme, France, 2023), and at PIQUE (Ottawa 2024).
The PHI Montréal residency program is presented by PHI in partnership with the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
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A project brought to you by The Sisters of the Celestial Order of Nephology
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