Offering perspective on breathing, intention, and presence, glo actively challenges us to slowly navigate through an entire space, and together, think about what nature can teach the world about gender, intimacy, equity, prayer, and collective power.

i came to explore the sun, of something more permanent, the moves are maps is an ongoing site-based research piece by glo founder Lauri Stallings. This iterative project’s first cycle consisted of a film documentary of a live art intervention commissioned by Meridian Herald for the Proctor Creek Watershed, a historically neglected region of Atlanta. Excerpts of the film were shown at the ACLU of Georgia Gala.

For this iteration, poet, weaver, and moving artist Vinisha Browne, and moving artist and LAB lead Mary Jane Pennington will map nature reserves through aural and choreographic repair movements, generated on site in glo’s Corner Studio, of its own kind, in need of repair, in a reclaimed 19th-century factory space.

The Bonnefont Marsh Nature Reserve is located on the territory of France’s Causses du Quercy Regional Nature Park. The 42-hectare site includes the largest reed bed in Bordeaux as well as flooded areas, dry lawns or juniper moors that stretch out on the hillsides above the marsh.The nature reserve, on which more than 247 species of plants have been identified, contains one of the rare fern stations in the marshes as well as the Mercury agrion and the succise checkerboard. A 1.8 km loop trail built on stilts and dotted with fun and educational panels allows you to explore the site. A 950 m trail accessible to people with reduced mobility (all disabilities) was built in 2014 in addition to the existing interpretation trail.

The two-day Bonnefont installation is supported by a cross-generational group residency in the rural community of Sousmoulins, population 222, that brings together contemporary women artists from Georgia, and Bordeaux, and aims to address the collective necessity to redefine women’s roles as part of a whole, and to find new ways of living in the world by rethinking boundaries, and examining hybridity in all forms. glo is home in the journey, to weave a strong link between rural, nature sites as intentional spaces for global biodiversity that comes together through live art happenings of intention, and repair, full of beautiful strangers who share their narratives without being formalized.

This project is made possible by an Oakspace Residency,  with the generous support of Chinese-American artist and cultural leader Patricia Chen. This project is made possible by Marais de Bonnefont et des Bordelais, and Festival Zou.