HORIZON FACTORY:
SISTERS OF THE CELESTIAL ORDER OF NEPHOLOGY
SISTERS OF THE CELESTIAL ORDER OF NEPHOLOGY
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).
Deep Gazing, a term coined by The Sisters, is a practice for personal and collective attunement to the environment and self. Inspired by Pauline Oliveros’s Deep Listening work, it bridges cloud identification and forecasting with tools for creating personal and intimate links with the weather.
A storm does not end, but continues to move, to shift, and influence other systems.
Deep Gazing is a timely practice that has helped The Sisters think through what it means to be a part of a complex, interconnected world and how to attune to the environment sensorially, sensually, and spiritually.
Polluting clouds from factory smoke stacks, exhaust clouds from fume pipes, atmospheric clouds on the horizon, electronic clouds where data is stored; 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, sudo-sect of two, blue cloaked, atmospheric-nuns were called by the unseizability of clouds and the ephemeral narratives that form them. These narratives are personal, environmental, futuristic, and potential warning signs.
DEEP GAZING EXHIBITION
PHI CENTRE, 2025
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DEEP GAZING BOOK:
Small-print publication, 2024
PHI CENTRE, 2025





DEEP GAZING BOOK:
Small-print publication, 2024
The book is a guide, a tool, an atlas and a companion for individual and communal attunement to the environment. Opening to the expansiveness of the sky, learning to read its signs and traces, and allowing for messages and meanings to arise beyond the art of forecasting.
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Deep Gazing Performance
Spring Pique Festival, Arts Court, Ottawa
2024
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DEEP GAZING RESIDENCIES:
Eastern Bloc & Performing Arts Forum
summer 2023
Deep Gazing Performance
Spring Pique Festival, Arts Court, Ottawa
2024

DEEP GAZING RESIDENCIES:
Eastern Bloc & Performing Arts Forum
summer 2023
This summer we had the opportunity of sharing and exchanging with so many brilliant thinkers and makers during our participation in two inspiring artist residencies. One at Eastern Bloc, in Montreal, during Natalie Doonan’s Participatory Multimedia Performance residency and the other at The Performing Art Forum, in France, during their Summer University program. We feel extremely blessed to have had these experiences and have met so many gorgeous artists and thinkers—you know who you are!
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Infinite gratitude to our consultants on the project, Erin Robinsong and Anne Bourne and our brilliant book designer Sydney McManus
DEEP GAZING: SUMMERWORKS + ARTSCAPE GIBRALTAR RESIDENCY
summer 2022
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This insight into clouds and reattuning to weather is significant information for the world today as we open to change with guidance from quantum work like yours, that activates beauty, irony without cynicism, and the infinite of the surreal with a loving gaze, as ways through.
-Anne Bourne
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DEEP GAZING: SUMMERWORKS + ARTSCAPE GIBRALTAR RESIDENCY
summer 2022

This insight into clouds and reattuning to weather is significant information for the world today as we open to change with guidance from quantum work like yours, that activates beauty, irony without cynicism, and the infinite of the surreal with a loving gaze, as ways through.
-Anne Bourne


Let the clouds direct you in ways of seeing, slowing, being in-relation,and reimagining possible futures.
Deep gazing, led by the Sisters of the Celestial Order of Nephology, is an interdisciplinary performance project inspired by experimental composer Pauline Oliveros and her practices of Sonic meditation and Deep Listening®,
Oliveros asks, what does it mean to listen? In response, the Sisters ask, what does it mean to look?
For the SummerWorks Lab Horizon Factory shared how to identify messages and meanings in the clouds beyond the conventions of weather forecasting, and explain how to make predictions with cloud formations through a series of embodied exercises.
Huge thank you to Deep Listening practicioner and artist Anne Bourne was a consultant on the project.
and the generous support from The Canada Council for the Arts.
CCOV & SUONI PER IL POPOLO PRESENT
“Pouvez-vous amener votre BBQ ?”
May 2022Can you bring your BBQ?” is an hour and a half of music and dance that will transport the audience in a reconstituted park in the CCOV studio. Basketball court, fake lawn, barbecues and tablecloths, the time of an evening in the heart of winter, the spectators will live a real summer day to the rhythm of invited artists: dance performers, circus performers, saxophonists, DJs, etc.
Ideation : Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, Nate Yaffe, James Goddard
Pictures by Mathieu-Philippe Perras
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KAMOURASKA: THIRD SPACE 2021
CONSEIL DES ARTS & DES LETTRES PROGRAMME ATELIER-RÉSIDENCES


DARLING FOUNDRY: PLACE PUBLIQUE 2020



