Welcome to ReIssue Digestif, a bi-weekly round-up of events on our radar.
All times in PST.
Islands: Brandon Poole
Deluge Contemporary Art, 636 Yates St, Victoria BC
Now–December 3, gallery hours: Wednesday–Friday, 12–5pm
Free
Poole’s media installation, Islands, is a re-edit of Carla’s Island, an animation generated by supercomputer Cray-1 from 1981. Having influenced “representation of liquid in fluid-mechanics, military simulations, cinema, and video games,” Poole’s reassemblage “navigates an archipelago of maritime simulations, sounding the depths of their representations for what is lost, and for what might be found.”
Twilight Hour: Les Ramsay
Sculpture Studio Room D1357, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, 520 E 1st Ave, Vancouver BC
Wednesday November 9, 6–8pm
Free
Twilight Hour is a speaker series hosted by the Painting and Sculpture + Expanded Practices programs at ECUAD, organized by Elizabeth McIntosh and Emily Hermant. For this iteration, artist Les Ramsay will be speaking on his layered, multimedia studio practice. “Les draws inspiration from domestic craft, textiles, folk art and digital drawing, forming groups of large oil paintings, fabric assemblages, sculpture, and framed needlepoint.”
DIM Cinema: Folding Time
The Cinematheque, 1131 Howe St, Vancouver BC
Wednesday November 9, 7–9pm
$10–14
In its fourteenth year, DIM Cinema is a monthly program featuring moving image works by local and international artists. Curated by Michele Smith, Folding Time features films by Dóra Maurer, Roberta Cantow, and Lynne Sachs & Lizzie Olesker, looking at the domestic passage of time via “the ever-fresh theme of laundry.” A perfect pairing with Anna Zoria’s piece, Waiting.
Dream Marrow: Hana Amani & Audie Murray
Burnaby Art Gallery, 6344 Deer Lake Ave, Burnaby BC
November 11–January 22, 2023, Tuesday–Friday 10:30am–4pm, Saturday–Sunday 12–5pm
Opening Thursday November 10, 7–9pm
$5 suggested donation
This two-person exhibition explores the generative aspects of dreaming by artists Hana Amani and Audie Murray. Works across different mediums take dreaming as a point of departure in “resistance to various forms of oppression, dispossession, and rule.”
Cloakroom & Woolworm + Rubber DJs
The Lido, 518 E Broadway, Vancouver BC
Friday November 11, doors 8pm
$15, advance tickets available at The Lido
Mount Pleasant’s favourite bar also hosts tight two-band bills. This week, a heavy night of shoegaze with “quintessentially American” Cloakroom, and local openers Woolworm. BYOE (earplugs).
Walk with Me/Story Walk II
Comox Valley Art Gallery, 580 Duncan Avenue, Courtenay, BC
Tuesday November 15, 1–2:30pm
Free, register here
Story Walks are guided audio walks, where participants are invited to walk and listen together through various outdoor reflective spaces. At the end of the walk, participants respond to the audio guides in a sharing circle. Through this process, communities are encouraged to find connectedness with the people and places at the heart of the toxic drug poisoning crisis.
Online: Soloman Chiniquay in conversation with nicole kelly westman
C Magazine online
Wednesday November 15, 5–6pm
Free, register here
A conversation between photographer and documentary filmmaker Soloman Chiniquay and artist/curator nicole kelly westman about the artist project they brought to C Magazine’s current issue, C152 “Extraction.” Centred around the “ethics of empathy” explored in Chiniquay’s film, Mâkochî Nîbi Îhonîach (The Land is Close to Death), westman positions Chiniquay’s work against the tradition of “photographers and photojournalists [who] act like hunters, focused on finding an image that precisely encapsulates complexities that are too challenging to succinctly summarise.”
Continuing Arts Education Workshops
Oxygen Art Centre, #3–320 Vernon St (alleyway entrance), Nelson BC
Various dates and times, register here
Sunday, November 13: DIY 16mm Film Processing + Intro to Bolex Camera with Brian Lye, $130
In this hands-on workshop participants will be introduced to the Bolex film camera and how to process black and white 16mm film using Caffenol-C. Caffenol-C is a home made and non-toxic film developer made from instant coffee, washing soda, and vitamin C powder. In groups of three, participants will shoot a 100 foot roll of film and hand process it in a DIY darkroom. No experience necessary.
Wednesday, November 15, 22, 29: Poetry & Bookmaking Intensive with Rayya Liebich and Myra Rasmussen, $155
Artist Myra Rasmussen, and poet Rayya Liebich will lead the creation of handmade books of poetry. Over three sessions, participants will experiment with marbling paper, collage, and two bookbinding methods. Each session will also include “patchwork poetry” to create new poems. Participants will leave the course with a completed mixed media art book featuring their original poems and a blank journal for future writing.
Lunch Poems: Tawahum Bige & Heidi Greco
Teck Gallery, SFU Harbour Centre, 515 W Hastings St, Vancouver BC
Thursday November 16, 12–1pm
Free, register here
November’s Lunch Poems reading features poets Tawahum Bige & Heidi Greco. Bige’s “Scorpio-moon-ass poems expose growth, resistance and persistence as a hopeless Two Spirit Nonbinary sadboy on occupied Turtle Island.” Bige’s debut poetry collection Cut to Fortress, was published in March 2022 by Nightwood Editions and his debut EP was released in May 2022. Greco’s ongoing work as an environmental activist influences her work as a poet, writer, editor, and book reviewer. She recently published, Glorious Birds: A Celebratory Homage to ‘Harold and Maude’ on Anvil Press in 2021.
Xinema 2: The Void of the Voice
VIFF Studio Theatre, 1181 Seymour St, Vancouver BC
Sunday November 20, 6–8pm
$10–15
Curated by Celina de Leon & Sidney Gordon, XINEMA is a new film-series that showcases the works of local emerging and established experimental filmmakers, on every third Sunday of the month. For its 2nd iteration, titled, The Void of the Voice, nine shorts explore the presence and absence of voice and the implications thereof. Featuring works by Dana Bontempo, Nita Bowerman, Mena El Shazly, Patricia Gruben, Alger Ji-Liang, Xinyue Liu, Hân Phạm, Rea Saxena, and Svava Tergeson.