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bīskabiyang

Jacqueline Morrisseau-Addison

In Jacqueline Morrisseau-Addison's poetic bīskabiyang the artist reflects on the nurturing of many homes – our bodies, our spirits, our families and communities, our plant, animal and earthly kin, as well as our first home, Mother Earth.

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  • Text
  • Moving Image
  • Performance
  • Nature
  • Voice
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Bodies Must Move

Elliott Ramsey

In his response to Vivek Shraya's Bodyrebuilding Curator Elliott Ramsey reads the artist's film as a manual for healing.

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  • Belonging
Black and white, vintage-tinged photograph of the artist posing in gym shorts, with weights in each hand. Their left hand is raised, and their eyes are facing the camera.

Bodyrebuilding

Vivek Shraya

In her video Bodyrebuilding artist and writer Vivek Shraya reflects on transness by way of an encounter with gym culture.

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  • Belonging
  • Performance
Black and white, vintage-tinged photograph of the artist posing in gym shorts, with weights in each hand. Their left hand is raised, and their eyes are facing the camera.
A still image from a video, this image shows a wooden figure with its arms outstretched, standing in a forest.

Cultural Crossings

T'uy't'tanat-Cease Wyss

Cultural Crossings is a video series produced by artist T'uy't'tanat-Cease Wyss about the intersections of the cultures that co-exist along the north shore.  

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  • Monuments
  • Ecologies
  • Belonging
A still image from a video, this image shows a wooden figure with its arms outstretched, standing in a forest.
A black-and-white photograph spread across two adjacent, abstract, rounded shapes. The superimposed images show the interior of a train station and an industrial port. Along their peripheries a text reads: "To be creative. To be loving. To be generous and kind and human were all lessons that I learned alone in the snow. You are a fireball. You are a being of infinite love."

Dad Era

Jordan Abel

An experiment unfolding across text and image, Jordan Abel’s Dad Era reflects on fatherhood, place, and memory-making.

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  • Kin
  • Conversation
  • Archive
  • Abstraction
A black-and-white photograph spread across two adjacent, abstract, rounded shapes. The superimposed images show the interior of a train station and an industrial port. Along their peripheries a text reads: "To be creative. To be loving. To be generous and kind and human were all lessons that I learned alone in the snow. You are a fireball. You are a being of infinite love."
A selfie taken in a the reflective glass of a bus stop, with leaves in the background. In the reflection we see the silhouette of the artist, a road, and a concrete barrier.

Existing as a Settler On Unceded Land: A Guide

Deirdre Lee

In her poem "Existing As a Settler On Unceded Land: A Guide" artist Dierdre Lee invites a reflection on the act of acknowledgment.

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  • Technology
  • Ceremony
  • Voice
A selfie taken in a the reflective glass of a bus stop, with leaves in the background. In the reflection we see the silhouette of the artist, a road, and a concrete barrier.

Fire.Heart.Spirit

Aaron Rice

Originally a three-channel installation, Aaron Rice's Fire.Heart.Spirit reflects on the concept of Otsenhakta.

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  • Otsenhakta
  • Ecologies
  • Ceremony

Monuments

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Marianne Nicolson

A virtual public art commission to fill two empty alcoves of the Legislative Library in Victoria, British Columbia, on the traditional unceded territory of the Lekwungen speaking peoples, the Esquimalt and Songhees First Nations.

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  • Monuments
  • Architecture
  • Interactive
A black-and-white distorted image featuring a boxy figure walking towards the left.

The Fountaincleaners

Charlotte Zhang

Combining text and video, The Fountaincleaners incorporates research and development materials gathered for Charlotte Zhang's debut feature film Tycoon.

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  • Moving Image
  • Abstraction
  • Technology
A black-and-white distorted image featuring a boxy figure walking towards the left.
Three circular slabs of rock with images of fire, ice and forest stand balanced on their ends and each surrounded by a loose circle of smaller rocks surrounding them.

The Spirit of the Flame

Emma Hassencahl-Perley

In this text Emma Hassencahl-Perley offers a response to Aaron Rice's video Fire.Heart.Spirit.

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  • Response
  • Otsenhakta
  • Ceremony
Three circular slabs of rock with images of fire, ice and forest stand balanced on their ends and each surrounded by a loose circle of smaller rocks surrounding them.
A close-up of four Black women smiling with drinks in hand. The woman on the left is in an orange tank top, with her tongue out and her eyes to the side. The middle two women are smiling at the camera in bright abstract shirts. The woman on the right is cheekily winking at the camera in an orange tube top and blue patterned cardigan.

You Will Find Your People Here

Olumoroti Soji-George & MadeByWe

In this illustrated essay, Olumoroti Soji-George reflects on the queer and BIPOC-centring events hosted by Vancouver collective MadeByWe.

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  • Collaboration
  • Ceremony
  • Kin
  • Music
A close-up of four Black women smiling with drinks in hand. The woman on the left is in an orange tank top, with her tongue out and her eyes to the side. The middle two women are smiling at the camera in bright abstract shirts. The woman on the right is cheekily winking at the camera in an orange tube top and blue patterned cardigan.