As a guest on these territories, Nanâskomitin. The generosity, gentleness and love brought by Nicole Preissl, through her teaching and sharing of ts’ex̱ts’íx̱ (a medicine that grows from this land), nitataminan. Têniki, Ya’Ya Heit for sharing the beautiful knowledge and teachings of Ha Ums, the crown I wear is what remained of the medicine. Both teachings have brought me so… Read more →
Time Lapse is the latest iteration of David Vaisbord’s documentary project: The Little Mountain Project. This short video, Time Lapse, focuses on the landscape of The Little Mountain Housing Project as a construction site, a playground, and home of a generation of youth, a battleground for a neighbourhood under siege and ultimately, a graveyard for the housing dreams of Vancouver. Vaisbord… Read more →
The mural of the dancers at NEC Native Education College was the inspiration for this film. The colours and movement inspired the idea of dancers in cedar hats coming together as a community but maintaining their individual identities. The song is an arrangement based on the Welcome Song by the Tiqilap community singers. The film calls forth the traditions, diversity, and… Read more →
My video looks into the invisible spectra of near-infrared light energy, where plant life is particularly active; and the far-infrared thermal energy emitted by humans and human-made machines, highlighting the energies that create and interact in the urban environment. A place is a fixed location. Despite the static implications, a place is always changing and always moving. A place in… Read more →
A recollection of personal thoughts on immigration, intergenerational trauma, gentrification, and what it means to seek refuge on the stolen land that is Vancouver. Located amidst dissonances of language and translation, between what is (not) seen and what is (not) heard, the film is a self-reflexive act of resistance, a quiet mourning for the perpetuating dreams of generations of Vietnamese… Read more →
Secondhand is an archive of the past, present and future. A digital accumulation of items, the artwork features an assortment of memorabilia and organic ephemera collected from the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood. Historical and recent photographs, ticket stubs, receipts, rocks, leaves and wilting petals scan the screen, offering a secondhand experience for passersby. The artist’s hands act as a stand-in for… Read more →
Rituals (2019) is part of an investigation into Asian-Canadian diasporic identity and the ways that it manifests through familial relationships and gestures. This work specifically revolves around domestic actions passed between the artist and her grandmother. Through the repetitive nature of sewing, peeling oranges, and playing mahjong, nuances and differences in the performances of these rituals emerge and reveal Wong’s… Read more →
Kevin House’s project originates in his experience with isolation and self-reflection. Isolation Boy is composed of daily visual and text-based reflections, speaking to our present period of COVID-19 isolation. Read more →
Commuting through industrial urban spaces in Vancouver and Sao Paulo, the artist examines the notion of existing simultaneously—physically or mentally—in different places and cultures. The intersection of two familiar landscapes, through un-idealized images of his current and former home provokes a reflection far-removed from nostalgia. Read more →
My greatest goal is to create a fluid connection between traditional and technological ideas, so that the word “contemporary” is diminished to the mere segregation that it really is. Then we can start creating from self-expression rather than self-definition. Read more →
