Contributors

Ella Adkins (her/she) is a writer, teacher and creator who lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia, on the unceded and ancestral lands of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh,  Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Nations.  She strives to uplift unique narratives and create opportunities for discovery and sustainable connection. Her work wrestles with the complexities and responsibilities of being a white female settler on colonized land, among both natural and built landscapes. Her written work has been featured in Femme Art Review, Peripheral Review, SAD Mag, UBC’s Journal of Art History (UJAH), and the upcoming Anthology of the Salt Marsh Kin Making Collective. She holds a B.A./ B.F.A in Art History and Creative Writing and a B.Ed. from the University of British Columbia.

Sonja Ahlers is a visual artist and poet based in Victoria, on the unceded territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen) speaking peoples, now known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations. Since the early ’90s, Ahlers has worked primarily in book and book-adjacent formats, in a medium that she calls visual poetry. She is the author of Temper, Temper and Fatal Distraction (Insomniac Press, 1998 and 2004), and The Selves (Drawn & Quarterly, 2010), and was a key contributor to Rookie Mag from 2011 to 2015. Swan Song (Conundrum Press, 2021) is Ahlers’ fourth book. 

Alexandra Alisauskas is an independent archivist and Learning and Engagement Librarian at the University of Calgary. Her current research explores contemporary art, artists’ and writers’ archives, and person-centred approaches to library, archival, and information services. With Jennifer Douglas and Devon Mordell, she is co-author of the article “‘Treat Them with the Reverence of Archivists’: Records Work, Grief Work, and Relationship Work in the Archives” in Archivaria, which was awarded the 2020 W. Kaye Lamb Prize from the Association of Canadian Archivists. She lives as a grateful guest on the traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7 region in southern Alberta.

Simranpreet Anand is an artist, curator, and cultural worker creating and working on the unceded territories of the Kwantlen, Katzie, and Semiahmoo peoples (Surrey, BC) and the lands of the Anishinaabeg – The Three Fire Confederacy of the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations, as well as the Wyandot Nation (Ann Arbor, MI). She holds a BFA Honours in Visual Arts along with a second major in Psychology from the University of British Columbia and is currently pursuing an MFA at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. 

Her art practice interrogates the so-called neutral audience in multicultural society. Her practice is informed by familial and community histories, often engaging materials and concepts drawn from the histories of Punjab and the Punjabi diaspora and the ways in which they have been disrupted by colonialism and forced migration. The reclamation of cultural practice in her work interrogates colonial theft, cultural propaganda, and forces of global capitalism. She has been awarded the Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize (2022) and the William and Meredith Saunderson Prizes for Emerging Artists (2021). Simranpreet is committed to a socially engaged practice, having worked on community engagement and education projects with the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery, the Evergreen Cultural Centre, documenta 14, and the Surrey Art Gallery. 

Patrik Andersson holds a PhD in Art History from the University of British Columbia and teaches art and ideas at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. He has curated historical and contemporary art and design exhibitions since the late 1980s and has published widely in catalogues, journals, books and zines. Since 1997 he has operated Trapp Projects, an independent curatorial and publishing platform. He worked as a studio assistant to Rodney Graham throughout the 1990s and curated Rodney Graham: Canadian Impressionist at Canada House, London in 2017.

Brit Bachmann is an artist, curator and cultural worker based on unceded lands belonging to the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, in Vancouver, Canada. She is the Publisher and co-founder of ReIssue, and previously worked as Director of UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness (2019-2022).

Claire Geddes Bailey is an artist and writer based on Snuneymuxw, xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh territories. Their work is concerned with narrative, legibility, and the specificities of place. They are currently working as curatorial intern at Nanaimo Art Gallery, and make cakes as @spool__oven.

Sarah Bakke is a writer and recent Film & Performance Studies graduate from Simon Fraser University. Her poetry and non-fiction has been featured in SAD Magazine, Discorder, and elsewhere. She currently lives and works on the unceded lands of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.

Dave Biddle (being me) is an artist and metaphysicist (being susceptible to gnosis) who works with sound, video, text, and performance to excavate universal truths (being technically fictional). Dave Biddle (still being me) is interested in how the many different forms of life on earth (being metaphorically different) are all oriented toward the production of new expressions of meaning (being negentropic), and in this process some of those expressions emerge as something called an “artist bio” (being the ultimate expression). Dave Biddle (being the artist whose bio is in question) was born in Vancouver (being the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations) and continues to live in that (being this) powerful place where he studies the silverfish in his books (being being). 

Alexandra Bischoff is an Edmonton-born (Treaty 6 Territory), Canadian performance artist and writer. She holds a diploma from MacEwan University and BFA in Visual Art from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Currently, Bischoff is an MFA candidate at Concordia University in the department of Intermedia (Video, Performance, and Electronic Arts). She currently lives on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations, otherwise known as Vancouver.

Bischoff’s art practice is based in durational performance and installation. The nature of labour, precarious living, and underrepresented archives are some of her chief concerns. Through visual art and writing, Bischoff responds to subtle intimacies: architectural idiosyncrasies, pornographic slippages, relationships with strangers, and the like. Often, she focuses through the amorphous lens of women’s work, with the ultimate aim of sensitively exercising the points at which leisure becomes labour and the sensual becomes unsettling.

Alexa Bunnell is an emerging artist, writer, and fermenter based in Mohkinstsís.

Annie Canto is an artist and educator currently working on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. In 2020, she graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design with a Master’s in Fine Arts emphasizing research in socially engaged art, critical race theory, and engaged pedagogy. Working with performance, text, comics, and food she facilitates participation in communal spaces to acknowledge the complexities of the other and question the overarching systems that govern our relationships. She is active in her creative community as a board member of the Vancouver Artist Labour Union Cooperative, and has most recently participated in the Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability (DESIS) Satellite Residency 2020 and the Artist in Residence Studio Program for Vancouver Public Schools 2020-21.

Paolino Caputo is a queer and non-binary artist and advocate of mixed Italian ancestry living on unceded Lekwungen territories. Through interdisciplinary practices—including new media, social/somatic performance, and roleplaying games—they navigate many faces of queer desire: desires for bodies, desires for sex, and desires for a brighter future.

Flavourcel Animation Collective is an animation collective formed in 2018 by 10 artists based on the unceded, traditional, and ancestral xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories, also known as Vancouver. They work collaboratively to make short-form experimental animations such as GIFs, music videos, installations, and more, to extend the contemporary narrative of what animation is and what it can be. Collective decision-making, resource sharing, and a commitment to play is at the core of all that they do. Through this, Flavourcel aims to uplift its members, as well as the communities it belongs to.

John Collins is a musician and producer based in Vancouver, BC. He has played bass in bands such as the Evaporators, Destroyer, and the New Pornographers. A long time collaborator in the Rodney Graham band, John has worked on every record, playing bass or some other instrument, or as a producer.

Derek Coulombe (b.1987, Vancouver), is a Toronto based PhD candidate at York University working within the Visual Arts department. His research interests circulate around experimental writing, found photography, self publishing, and relationships between visuality, physicality, and disability.

Vee CR @vincent.chorabik graduated with an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2021. They are a non-binary and transdisciplinary artist, queering art through collage and installation. Utilizing a tentacular approach with a focus on play and interactivity, they seek to queer physical and digital spaces; making spaces accessible when they otherwise might not be. In their collages, they appropriate ready-made imagery to create new narratives that celebrate and empower minorities with a particular focus on the LGBTQ+ community.

Ashley Culver is an artist and writer based in Tkaronto/Toronto. The thread of attention with care runs through her practice. Her work is in conversation with domestic space — particularly the kitchen — and desire for connection.

Deborah de Boer is a curator and writer working between Victoria and Mexico City. She is the co-founder, with Todd Eacrett, of Deluge Contemporary Art and Antimatter [media art]. de Boer has curated over 400 exhibitions with Deluge, programmed Antimatter since its inception and organized numerous international tours of visual and moving image art.

Justin Devries is a musician and historian whose work lies at the intersections of percussion, electronics, and experimental composition techniques. His recent historical work investigated local settler interactions with experimental electronic and Indonesian music in Vancouver from the 1960s-1990s through the life and work of Martin Bartlett, completing an MA thesis in 2024 which provides the most comprehensive overview of Bartlett’s life written to date. His subsequent writing on Bartlett was also published in The Urban History Review/Revue d’histoire urbaine. His recent composition work includes the debut album of his group Universal Affirmation Ensemble, and he is a well-travelled percussionist who has performed locally and internationally including at Pitchfork Festival Paris, Le Guess Who in Utrecht, London’s Mirrors Festival, and the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. He lives on the unceded territory of the Sḵwxwú7mesh, Xwməθkwəyəm and Səl’il’wətaʔ peoples.

EA Douglas is a writer and student at Capilano University.

Barry Doupé (b. 1982 Victoria, BC) is a Vancouver-based artist primarily working with computer animation. His films use imagery and language derived from the subconscious; developed through writing exercises and automatic drawing. He often creates settings within which a characters’ self-expression or action is challenged and thwarted, resulting in comic, violent, and poetic spectacles.

His films have been screened throughout Canada and Internationally including the Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, Michigan), International Film Festival Rotterdam (Rotterdam, the Netherlands), Anthology Film Archives (NY, New York), Lyon Contemporary Art Museum (Lyon, France), Pleasure Dome (Toronto, ON), MOCCA (Toronto, ON), Whitechapel Gallery (London, UK), Centre Pompidou (Paris, France), the Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver, BC), and the Tate Modern (London, UK).

Todd Eacrett has been involved with moving images and sound—as an artist, administrator and programmer—for more than three decades. From booking punk bands in squalid underground venues to organizing international screening tours and running a successful media arts festival, he continues to prioritize the personal and poetic.

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Rhys Edwards is an artist, writer, and curator. His writing has appeared in Canadian Art, C Magazine, Whitehot, and The Capilano Review. He graduated with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from the UBC in 2014, and he lives and works on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, Kwantlen, Katzie, and Semiahmoo nations.

Genki Ferguson was born in New Brunswick to a family of writers and grew up in Calgary. He spent much of his childhood in the subtropical island of Kyushu, Japan, where his mother’s family still resides. Fluent in Japanese and capable of making a decent sushi roll, Genki currently lives in Vancouver with his partner, two chinchillas, two gerbils, five spiders, and a frog. His debut novel Satellite Love (McClelland & Stewart, 2021) is the story of a teenage girl in Southern Japan who falls in love with a satellite, and was on the 2022 Canada Reads Longlist.

Sara Gold is a sound artist and music producer who weaves experimental hardware techno and cinematic soundscapes together to create a unique, multidisciplinary approach to sight and sound.

Angelica Goldsky is a Russian-Jewish trans-gender, queer poet, writer and performance artist. Angelic sees their work as the work of a poetry excavator. They have been honoured to dig up words, and transmute them across Turtle Island and Europe, unearthing what was once buried. They have been published in Frontier Poetry and SAD Mag among other journals, and serve on the editorial board of the Room Magazine. Goldsky has developed programs in partnership with The Museum of Anthropology, Jewish Queer Trans Vancouver and Everybody Is In Downtown Eastside, working in community cohesion through poetry, art and media. They love creating arts space where everyone can be celebrated and honoured in full spectrum.

Russell Gordon is an artist and writer whose work has been published in the UBC Undergraduate Journal of Art History and ReIssue. He graduated with a diploma in Art History (2016) and an MFA Visual Arts (2022) from the University of British Columbia. He lives and works on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ people.

Amy Gottung produces media, culture, and other creative projects. As a consultant, she works across a range of spaces within and beyond the creative industries, including social services, public engagement, and DIY. She is also a (continuously recovering) classical musician who, like Fan, overcame a lifelong fear of jamming in the making of touch The Thousand Things Without Dependency. She may be lurking on IG @amyamyamyggg.

Jonah Gray is an art historian, curator, and PhD candidate at UC San Diego. He lives and works between Vancouver — on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlil̓wətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations — and San Diego — the unceded territory of the Kumeyaay Nation. His writing has been published in C Magazine and Canadian Art.

Kayla Guthrie is a poète maudit.e, bedroom techno ghoul, and apprentice piercer currently based in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. They make music as Reliquary V and write at Spectral Type.

Jeff Hallbauer is an interdisciplinary painter based in Vancouver, Canada, on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Hallbauer graduated from Emily Carr University in 2009, and has exhibited locally and abroad. Notable exhibitions include Fruits at Chernoff Fine Art and Towards a Fictional History of Colour at the Burrard Art Foundation. In 2021, he participated in the Queer Arts Festival as part of a Avram Finkelstein flash collective experiment in political art-making, which showed at the grunt gallery community art screen.

Hamish Hardie is a writer and line cook living on unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. His writing has appeared in C Magazine, ephemeral pamphlets, and a recent exhibition at dreams comma delta.

Max James Hill is a writer and educator living and working on the traditional and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ peoples. His work involves youth advocacy, media literacy, and promoting queer spaces in the city.

Alexis Hogan (she/her) is a queer white settler with Indigenous heritage (Irish & Quebecois on her mom’s side and Irish and Anishinaabe from Sharbot Lake, Ontario on her dad’s). Alexis was born in Indonesia, grew up in Saudi Arabia and has lived as an uninvited guest, on T’Souke, Scia’new, Lkwungen, and W̱SÁNEĆ territories off and on for the past 23 years.  She holds a BFA in Visual Arts (2015) from Emily Carr University of Art and Design with a focus in printmaking, sculpture and critical, cultural theory.

Alexis currently works through the project lichen, which seeks to model its namesake in its capacity for transformation and exchange; it is a mobile programming and gathering space that is designed to be responsive to place-based and ecologically-centred art practices and communities.  Her practice with and through lichen is driven by collaborative partnership, and tends to focus on site-specific projects, social practice, sculpture and print media.

Julian Hou is an artist based in Vancouver. His multidisciplinary practice includes the fostering and organizing of productions through a fluid collaborative art, audio, publishing and apparel entity (Second Spring), as well as an ongoing artistic practice that involves the accumulation of new skills and application of personal symbolic invocations, collective meaning, and original methods of divination that probe the darker recesses of psychic awareness. His stalwart mediums are drawing, sculpture, songwriting, album production, and clothing as art. You can follow @julian_hou and @secondspring.online on Instagram.

Meg Hübert resides in Vancouver and works out of her studio at 4277 Fraser Street producing sculpture, paintings, drawings, and functional objects out of clay. Hübert has worked as an artist and designer since graduating with a BFA from Emily Carr University in 2005. Her work has been shown at Dynamo Arts Association, Deer Lake Art Gallery, The Fifty Fifty Arts Collective, Elissa Crystal, and UNIT/PITT artist-run centre. In 2008 she won the 2nd place C.F.A. Painting On The Edge Award. Along with functional ceramics available for purchase through her web-shop, Hübert’s lighting can be seen at Tacofino Gastown and Yaletown.

Shaun Inouye is Associate Programmer at The Cinematheque, a non-profit film institute located on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. He holds an MA in Film Studies from the University of British Columbia, and has published works on Jean-Luc Godard, Harmony Korine, and André Bazin. At The Cinematheque, Inouye has programmed retrospectives on the films of Lucrecia Martel, Kelly Reichardt, Nicolas Roeg, and Claire Denis, among others. In 2015, he curated the screening series and art exhibition “Traces That Resemble Us,” and in 2016, the thematic series “This is Going to Hurt: A Cinema of Cruelty.”

Alex Jensen is a queer multimedia artist and designer living and working on the unceded traditional territories of the Lekwungen peoples. His practice engages with the themes of memory, disability, queer identity, and media studies. He has worked with a number of organizations in various capacities, including Arnica ARC, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Or Gallery, Xchanges Gallery, and IMAA. Alex also maintains an independent design practice.

Jessica Johns is a nehiyaw aunty with English-Irish ancestry and a member of Sucker Creek First Nation in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta. Her short story “Bad Cree” won the 2020 Writers’ Trust Journey Prize and her novel of the same name will be released in January 2023 with HarperCollins.

Robert Kleyn (b. Amsterdam) studied mathematics and architecture at UBC and was active in early photo-conceptual, video and projection-based art in Vancouver. His slide works and photographs were often performative as in his 1976 exhibition with Rodney Graham at Pender Street Gallery. In addition to exhibiting in Canada, he had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Italy where he lived from the mid ’70s until 1990, and in New York where he was associated with the interdisciplinary groups Colab Projects and Machine Language. Kleyn has worked in theatre and film, in addition to an ongoing practice in sculpture, installation, and photography. He has taught architecture and has done numerous art-related projects and collaborations with other artists since moving back to Vancouver in 2003. His artworks are in public and private collections.

Tiziana La Melia is an artist and the author of The Eyelash and the Monochrome (Talon Books, 2018), the poetry album Kletic Kink (Tenderly, 2023). Recent exhibitions include confessions on sparkling hill at Damien and the Love Guru (Zurich, 2023).

LAIWAN is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and educator with a wide-ranging practice based in poetics and philosophy. Born in Zimbabwe of Chinese parents, her family immigrated to Canada in 1977 to leave the war in apartheid Rhodesia. She has been investigating colonialism, with aim toward a decoloniality, since the late 1980s. She also has been exploring embodiment since 2000, through performativity, audio, music, improvisation, and varieties of media, along with bodily and emotional ways of knowing, so as to unravel and engage presence. Talonbooks published TENDER: selected poems by Laiwan in Spring 2020. 

Recent public commissions have also enabled her to focus on issues of urban development, touching on poetic and philosophic themes related to current questions of environment and the built cityscape of Vancouver. Based on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, she founded the OR Gallery in 1983 in Vancouver and teaches in the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Program at Goddard College, USA.

Lauren Lavery is a writer, artist, Editor of Peripheral Review, and Managing Editor of The Capilano Review. She has published art writing for Contemporary Art Review LA, The Capilano Review, ReIssue, BlackFlash, Cornelia Magazine, Public Parking, Peripheral Review, LUMA Quarterly, and in exhibition texts for Wil Aballe Projects, Martha Street Studios, Xpace Cultural Centre, and Y+ Contemporary. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts, and is currently based in Vancouver, BC, on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm , Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ Nations.

Godfre Leung is an art critic and the curator at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver, the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ Nations. His recent writing includes essays on Kaamil Haider and Pao Houa Her, and the forthcoming monograph Sonja Ahlers: Classification Crisis (Richmond Art Gallery and Conundrum Press).

Lin Li is an independent curator and writer based in Vancouver, on the ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Her curatorial interests encompass a variety of topics, such as the decolonization and decentralization of Asian art, the identity crisis in an age of globalization and digitalization, and the contradictory, interconnected relationship between art and technology. Lin Li holds a Master degree in East Asian Studies from the University of Alberta.

Amila Li 李嘉怡 is a storyteller based in Vancouver, on unceded xwməθkwəy̓ əm, Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ territory. By way of photography, she explores her myriad feelings about effort and ease, whether in a subject’s movement, compositional a/symmetry, or colour grading. She is particularly drawn to scenes that obscure under- and overstatement for their capacities to redefine or altogether abandon these categories. Amila received her BA (Honours) and MA degrees in English from Simon Fraser University as well as an ARCT diploma in Piano Pedagogy from the Royal Conservatory of Music after dropping out of cosmetology school. Currently, she is pursuing a PhD in English Literature at the University of British Columbia. Through lines in her research and writing are questions of value and performance surrounding classed, gendered, and racialised labour; beauty and comportment; and care and dis/ability. 

Ben Lickerman is a gameboy advance living out this pandemic under those vancouver developments that sprawl across the unceeded territories of xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), səl’ilwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Skwxwúm7mesh (Squamish) peoples. When he’s not busy trying to graduate from the University of BC, he’s filling spilling ink across a notebook. When that gets overwhelming, he goes on long circuitous walks in the rain. When his knees give out from walking, he returns to the notebook. Citysprawl, inkspill, wetstroll: rhythms of an eternity nascent in a single day.

Steff Hui Ci Ling is cultural worker, labour researcher, and occasional critic, poet, and film programmer living as a guest on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ / Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) First Nations. Her most recent book is MIXED MARTIAL ARTS (House House Press, 2022), a book of anti-work poems in response to the “work poetry” of the Vancouver Industrial Writer’s Union (1987–1993). She is a PhD student in Sociology at Simon Fraser University where she also works as a teaching and research assistant in Labour Studies, and the School for Communications. For fun, she designs and co-edits STILLS: moving image tract and organizes study groups.

Born in Calgary, Ardele Lister came to filmmaking in 1973 when she co-founded the women’s film collective, ReelFeelings, in Vancouver. After writing for The Province and Vanguard, Lister founded and edited Criteria (1975-78), a critical review of the arts. Lister moved to NYC in ’76, where she still resides. In 1977, while working for the Foundation for Independent Video and Film in New York City, she founded and edited The Independent, the first monthly publication for independent video and filmmakers.Lister taught media for many years at the School of Visual Arts, NYC, and at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She is currently Professor Emerita at Rutgers University. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam) and the Kunsthalle (Berlin).

Michael Loncaric is a writer who lives on the unceded, ancestral, and traditional territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. He holds a BA and MA in English Literature from Simon Fraser University. He has worked as an editor with Peripheral Review and Duke University’s Polygraph; his writing and criticism have appeared in conjunction with Catriona Jeffries (Vancouver), Capilano Review’s Small Caps (Vancouver), Deep Blue Studios (Vancouver), Dynamo Arts Association (Vancouver), Franz Kaka Gallery (Toronto), Kadist Gallery (San Francisco), New Forms Festival (Vancouver), Vivo (Vancouver), and Yerba Center for the Arts (San Francisco).

Myfanwy MacLeod (b. London, Ontario) is currently based in Vancouver, Canada. She is a renowned artist who has showcased her work both nationally and internationally. Some of her recent exhibitions include The Botanist (2023) at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff, Wales, and Biennale Gherdeina7 (2020) in Ortisei, Italy. In 1999, she represented Canada at the Melbourne Biennale in Australia and was awarded the VIVA award from the Doris and Jack Shadbolt Foundation. MacLeod is known for her work in public art, locally and internationally. Some of her notable works include Playtime (2016), a collaborative project with Shannon Oksanen and The Birds (2010), both commissioned by the City of Vancouver. Her recent commission, The Song of the Dodo, was installed in December 2023 at the new headquarters of the National Bank of Canada in Montreal.

Kristin Man is a concept-driven intermedia artist who engages multiple disciplines in her ongoing series “A-MARE” (to love-to sea) which takes form in the weaving of connections. She negotiates the boundaries of mediums as she does the paradigms drawn by society. Born in Hong Kong, she has lived in six countries and is currently based in what is known as Vancouver, on unceded Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh territories. She has exhibited internationally and writes in English, Chinese and Italian. Her writing has appeared in Art Asia Pacific, and as poetry and prose in her two art publications, as well as lyrics in songs. Man is a holder of an IB from the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales, a BA in International Relations from Brown University and an MBA from Columbia University in the US.

Tara McGuire is a former broadcaster whose essays and poetry have appeared in several magazines and on CBC Radio. She is a graduate of The Writer’s Studio at SFU and holds an MFA from the UBC School of Creative Writing. Holden After and Before is her first book.

Carey Mercer is a songwriter and musician, currently working on the unceded lands be​longing to the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlil̓wətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. Since 2001, Mercer has produced a steady stream of albums, releasing records under the names Soft Plastics, Frog Eyes, Blackout Beach, and Swan Lake. Mercer has published one book of essays and stories and had work published in McSweeney’s, The Talkhouse, and other various publications. Mercer is currently working on more music in the early and late hours of most days.

Hannah Möller is a visual artist working in the expanded fields of painting, drawing, and sculpture. Transfixed by the non-linear aspects of memory, the malleability of poetry and the whimsey of fiction, she often sees each artwork as its own character and having its own slew of hypotheticals and prose. Möller currently resides in Vancouver on the unceded territory of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Mickey L.D. Morgan is an interdisciplinary community practice artist with a passion for institutional critique. Much of their work, creative and otherwise, draws from the Jewish intergenerational justice-based practice of tikkun olam or world-mending and takes inspiration from decolonial activist practices. In 2021 Mickey graduated from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, majoring in Visual Arts and minoring in Social Practice and Community Engagement. Mickey works with themes of justice, neighbourliness, transness, storytelling, place, diaspora, and altogether reimagining the ways we hold space with one another.

Soledad Muñoz is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher born in Canada and raised in Rancagua, Chile. Currently based in Toronto, her work seeks to explore the ever-changing social spaces we inhabit, and the archival properties of cloth. Through her understanding of the woven structure as the continuation of our social gesture, her practice hopes to recover the voices of those historically silenced, and therefore participate in the fabrication of a more just society. In 2014 she started Genero, an audio project/label that focuses on the distribution and greater representation of women and non-binary artists in the sound realm. Subsequently in 2017, she co-founded CURRENT Feminist Electronic Art Symposium, a multidisciplinary, intersectional music and electronic art symposium working with women, non-binary, and BIPOC artists in Vancouver and beyond. Some of Soledad awards include the New Artist Society Full Merit Scholarship at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and The City of Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award for Emerging Artist in Craft and Design.

Heidi Nagtegaal (BFA, ECUAD, 2005) is an artist, writer, facilitator, and business owner residing on stolen territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Nations. They founded Hammock Residency and Headbands & Bracelets, motivated by exchanges built on currencies that nourish instead of deplete. Nagtegaal studied trauma and embodiment with Dr. Beth Hedva (2016). They graduated from The School of the Free Hammock (2018), a self-made MFA program based in mutual aid.

Dani Neira (they/them) is a curator, writer, and artist. They are a second-generation settler of mixed Colombian ancestry living and working on Lekwungen land/Victoria, BC. Rooted in queer theory and informed by strategies of collaboration, their interdisciplinary practice explores memory, language, materiality, and space as sites of affect and generative failure.

Dani holds a BA in Art History and Visual Studies from the University of Victoria and is the co-founder of the collaborative curatorial project Dirty Dishes Collective. They are currently a Program Coordinator at Open Space and have worked in a variety of curatorial and administrative roles within artist-run centres and DIY initiatives.

Hue Nguyen (they/them) work in publishing, sculpture, and performance art. Their practice investigates the body and the mind in theoretical and scientific ways in relation to the larger hegemonic state in which they reside. They are currently pursuing a BFA at the University of British Colombia.

Cecily Nicholson is an award-winning author of three books of poetry. She volunteers with community impacted by carcerality and food insecurity. Her performances, talks, and residencies have been hosted by educational spaces such as New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Centre for Indigenous Research Creation at Queen’s University, Woodland Pattern Book Centre, Milwaukee, and the Surrey School District.

Ryley O’Byrne is an artist and writer from xwesam, the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples (Roberts Creek, Canada). She attended The Mountain School of Art in Los Angeles and was a resident of the Critical Art Writing Ensemble III at the Banff Centre. Her writing has appeared in Canadian Art, Public Parking Publication, The Capilano Review, and TriQuarterly.

Shannon Oksanen is an artist and former lead singer for the Vancouver buzz-saw punk and rock band Volumizer. Since the mid-nineties, she has participated in exhibitions across Canada as well as internationally, including solo shows at VTO Gallery, London, England; Or Gallery, Vancouver; and Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver. Oksanen participated in Baja to Vancouver, a touring exhibition of West Coast artists, coordinated by the Seattle Art Museum, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Wattis Art Institute (2003). Select group exhibitions include Gordon Smith Museum, West Vancouver (2017); Kamloops Art Gallery, (2011); Passogen Gallery, Linköping, Sweden (2004); Gallery 303, New York (2005).

Paloma Pacheco is a writer and journalist based in Vancouver, on unceded Musqueam territory. Her work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, The Tyee, Maisonneuve, POV Magazine and cléo journal, among other publications.

Jenifer Papararo is a curator who is currently leading the vision of the Art Gallery of York University as the Director/Curator. She was previously the Executive Director of Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg; Curator at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver and Program Director at Mercer Union, Toronto. She founded the STAGES: public art biennial in 2017 (Winnipeg, Manitoba) and is a founding member of service-oriented curatorial and artist collective Instant Coffee.

Kitt Peacock is an interdisciplinary artist-researcher and settler from O’odham Jeweḍ, currently living on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ / Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. Their practice is centred on the creation and maintenance of trans worlds through storytelling, performance, and installation. They hold a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2019) and an MFA from the University of British Columbia (2023). Their work has appeared in exhibitions across North America, Germany, and Japan.

R. Peng is a writer, artist, and Furby enthusiast, currently living on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.

Fellow Peter is an acting property manager for Housing Administration: Delta East Subdivision. From his cubicle, he writes.

Nisha Platzer (she/her) is a queer artist and filmmaker from Vancouver, BC, on unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territories. Drawn to vibrant shades, her films meld sounds and imagery that you can dream and drown in. She studied at the renowned Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) in Cuba and her work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the BC Arts Council and the National Film Board of Canada. Nisha’s first feature documentary, back home, is supported by Telefilm Talent to Watch and was presented at the Docs-in-Progress Canadian Showcase at Cannes Film Festival 2022.

Dana Qaddah (b. 1996, Beirut, Lebanon) is a third generation expatriate, artist and organizer based on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam nations. Qaddah’s interdisciplinary practice draws upon the condition of generational displacement, being abstracted from the destruction of one’s own sense of self, place, and home.

Qaddah completed a BFA at ECUAD in 2019. In 2018, they participated in Plug In ICA’s Summer Institute II: BUSH gallery. The following year, they were invited to participate in Access Gallery’s PLOT space as a writer-in-residence. In 2020, Qaddah curated a program hosted by Western Front as part of Recollective: Vancouver Independent Archives Week. Recent presentations of Qaddah’s work includes the group exhibition The Neighbour’s Plate at Unit 17 (Vancouver) and the solo exhibition of Vessel(s) through which at Libby Leshgold Gallery (Vancouver). Qaddah is currently one of the artists-in-residence at the Media Arts Committee’s sound art program.

Angie Rico is Mexican-born artist living and working in so-called Vancouver, Canada. Rooted in a documentarian sensibility, her filmmaking and writing practice attempt to sensibly imprint a liminal reality. Her works are primarily rooted and depart from subjects such as family memory, immigration, gender, and sexuality. She often employs tactics such as bilingualism, humour, and DIY aesthetics to point at moments of fracture and slippage.

Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross is a writer based in Vancouver, the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Her fiction, poetry, essays, and art criticism have appeared in BOMB, Mousse, Fence, C Magazine, Kijiji, and elsewhere, and her self-published chapbooks include Mayonnaise and Drawings on Yellow Paper (with Katie Lyle). She holds a BFA in Studio Art from Simon Fraser University (2012) and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph (2018). By day, she works as the Managing Editor of The Capilano Review, and by night, she publishes expanded art writing titles under the small press Blank Cheque. She is currently at work on a novel and a collection of short stories—both of which she hopes will be completed in her lifetime.

Shyla Seller is an archivist and editor living and working on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations in Vancouver. She plays music with Carey Mercer and Melanie Campbell and sometimes writes for publications like Zachor, Geist and Archivaria.

Alysha Seriani is an emerging interdisciplinary artist working at the intersections of film production, media art and community projects , based on the ancestral and occupied lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Coast Salish Nations. Her work proposes horizontal modes of collaboration and seeks to witness intersectional practices, intergenerational learning and queer joy. Some recent projects include speculative evidence for a children’s autonomous zone for UNIT/PITT’s La Commune 2021 and Marble presents “IT’S MY HOUSE” for grunt gallery’s MPCAS in collaboration with Hazel Meyer. She is also Media Artist in Residence at Walter Moberly Elementary School with the AIRS Program where she is leading a year-long inquiry with children using school-issued iPads as a tool for bewilderment and animation. 

Jane Shi is a queer Chinese settler living on the unceded, traditional, and ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Her poetry, essays, reviews, and multimedia art have appeared in Briarpatch magazine, grunt gallery, and the Disability Visibility Project blog, among others. She wants to live in a world where love is not a limited resource, land is not mined, hearts are not filched, and bodies are not violated. 

Amanda Siebert is a freelance multimedia journalist and author residing on QayQayt Territory in what is known as New Westminster, BC. She is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Inside the Jar, a growing independent publication focused on drug culture, and a regular contributor to Forbes. Before focusing on drug culture, Siebert spent several years covering art and music for the Georgia Straight, and wrote a weekly column called ‘Gallery Surf,’ which highlighted the work of local artists. Her first book, The Little Book of Cannabis, was published by Greystone Books in 2018. In 2019, the Toronto Star bestseller was also named the #1-selling non-fiction cannabis book in the country. A follow up, The Little Book of Psychedelics, is in the works.

Kathy Slade is an artist, writer, curator, editor, and publisher. She works across mediums and has produced textile works, prints, sculpture, film, video, performance, music projects, and publications. Select solo exhibitions include: As the sun disappears and the shadows descend from the mountaintop, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2023); Wherever You Go, Monica Reyes Gallery, Vancouver (2020); This is a Chord. This is Another., Surrey Art Gallery (2018); and Blue Monday, 4COSE, London, England (2017). In 2009, Slade was awarded the VIVA Award from the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation for the Visual Arts. She currently teaches at the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University.

Dion Smith-Dokkie (he/they) is a visual artist currently residing in Vancouver on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ homelands. They are a recent graduate of the UBC MFA in Visual Arts program and hold a BA Humanities (Women’s Studies) from UVIC and a BFA in Painting and Drawing from Concordia. They are a gay mixed-race European-Indigenous man and are a member of West Moberly First Nations, a Treaty 8 First Nation located in northeastern British Columbia. In their practice, Dion deals with envelopes, mutation, interface phenomena, and media skins in the fields of painting, drawing, and video. Alongside this, they teach and sometimes write about art. 

Kara Stanton is a poet, cultural worker, and editor based on Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ territories. Their poetry has been published in Poetry is Dead, Arc Poetry Magazine, and CV2. They are assistant editor at ReIssue.

Dr. prOphecy sun is an interdisciplinary performance artist; queer, movement, video, and sound maker; mother; and current Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellow at Simon Fraser University. Her practice celebrates both conscious and unconscious moments and the vulnerable spaces of the in-between in which art, performance, and life overlap. Her recent research has focused on ecofeminist perspectives, co-composing with voice, objects, surveillance technologies, and site-specific engagements along the Columbia Basin region and beyond. sun hosts Tapes and Beyond on Kootenay Co-op Radio and is the Arts Editor for Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities. She performs and exhibits regularly in local, national, and international settings, music festivals, conferences, and galleries and has authored several peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and journal publications.

Sue-Shane Tsomondo is an arts administrator and the creator of Sue’s Stokvel, a Calgary-based literary arts platform. In 2020, she appeared on the cover of the Calgary Journal and has also been featured in Arts Commons and Avenue Magazine. Sue-Shane’s artistic practice is informed by oral storytelling practices and academic research.  

Reid Urchison is a queer/trans artist living in Victoria on unceded Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ territories. Their work focuses on language, literary theory, memoir, and often takes the form of videos, zines or other multiples.

Andrea Valentine-Lewis (she/her) is an independent curator and writer based on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Her curatorial projects have been presented at Equinox Gallery, Unit 17, Burrard Arts Foundation, Duplex Artist Society (all Vancouver, BC), Marine Drive Skytrain Station (Richmond, BC), and Deluge Contemporary Art (Victoria, BC). She works as a Curatorial Assistant at Vancouver Art Gallery and she is on the Board of Directors at UNIT/PITT.

Ian Wallace is a Vancouver based artist known for his work at the intersection of painting and photography. Bringing together photographs and monochrome paintings, his work builds on the respective histories of the two mediums in light of the artistic developments of 1960–70s conceptual art practices. Throughout his work, Wallace explores concerns of social and artistic dynamics through themes of the street, the museum and the studio. Also known for his role as a scholar and a teacher, Wallace is a key figure in the development of what came to be called the ‘Vancouver School of Photography’ with artists like Jeff Wall, Stan Douglas, Ken Lum, and Rodney Graham.

Amanda Wan(she/they) is a queer han chinese settler based in the unceded, occupied territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. They create poetry, artwork, and scholarship about sad ghosts and queer love. She is currently completing an MA English at UBC, with research and organizing interests in queer Asian diasporic literatures and visualities. Their areas of work include the aesthetics of racial melancholia, intergenerational trauma, and affect in the psychic landscapes continually haunted by colonial violence; contexts include postcolonial, psychoanalytic, and critical race, gender, and sexuality theories, and techno-Orientalism. Through heartwork/artwork, she continually feels her way through the sea of ancestral memory, daydreaming about the collective freedom to be soft and strange without fear.

Jamie Ward is an interdisciplinary artist & writer splitting time between Vancouver, BC & Houston, TX. His work includes drawing, music and video, exploring personal memoir as it relates to music fandom. He received his BFA from Emily Carr University of Art & Design where he was awarded both The Christopher Foundation Scholarship and Mary Catherine Gordon Memorial Scholarship for outstanding artistic achievement. In 2014 he began programming the series Musik Klub, an ongoing exploration of Youtube music video rarities. He currently writes the subscription newsletter “Sermons!”, a weekly unpacking of a life spent obsessing over music. His work has been exhibited in Canada and The US, and his silk screened poster work can be seen in the publications Swag 2: Rock Art of the 90s & Beyond (Harry N. Abrams, 2005), Gig Posters: Rock Art of the 21st Century (Quirk Books, 2009), and the documentary Died Young, Stayed Pretty (2009), as well as in the permanent collection of The Austin History Center.

Neil Wedman (b. 1954) lives and works in Vancouver, Canada and is represented there by the Equinox Gallery. He is currently working on a scale model funhouse/dark ride based on the Gastown Riot of 1971.

Casey Wei is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, and writer based in Vancouver, BC, on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. She is a PhD candidate in Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University, where her practice-based research in film-making, writing, and performance is informed by participatory activities such as editing, publishing, and programming. Recent works include the book Tuning to Oblivion: an artist residency (M:ST Performative Art, 2023), and the album Stimuloso (Mint Records, 2022) with her band, Kamikaze Nurse.

Sam Weselowski is a poet from Vancouver, unceded xwməθkwəy̓ əm, Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ territory. His chapbooks include Love Poems <3 (Distance No Object, 2021), Other Than North (Gong Farm, 2021), and I LOVE MY JOB (If a Leaf Falls Press, 2019). He lives in the West Midlands, UK.

Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora is an artist/writer/arts worker living and working on the territories of the xwməθkwəýəm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ First Nations. Their practice currently encompasses performance, video, field recordings, collecting/archiving, and writing, with a special interest in holes/gaps/voids and the productive tension that arises when these fissures are addressed in relation to personal and public archives.

Andrew Witt is an art historian and critic who writes on contemporary art. His book, Lost Days, Endless Nights: Contemporary Photography and Film from Los Angeles (2024) is forthcoming with the MIT Press.

Sarah Wong is an emerging writer, choreographer, and interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, Canada on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ First Nations. Her work emerges from lived experiences as a queer and disabled 2nd generation Chinese-Canadian, focusing on archival processes and accessing embodied intergenerational knowledge to trace relationships between identity and lineage. Her practice makes space for the multiple, creating work that spans improvisational performance, site-specific installation, textiles, poetry, film, and zines. She is devoted to cultivating practices of care, creating and facilitating spaces for bodies to rest.

Daryn Wright is a writer and artist working and living on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Her work involves the reproduction and re-enactment of archival material through painting, sculptural reproductions, narrative, and foodstuffs.

Jasper Wrinch is writer, editor, and musician living and working on Nex̱wlélex̱m and the unceded territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓ əm (Musqueam), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. In addition to serving as an editor for Discorder Magazine, Jasper’s work has been featured or is forthcoming in a variety of  publications, including The Capilano Review, Pip Magazine, The Quarantine Review, and Local Ginch.

Fan Wu is a benumbed, tentacular enthusiast dipped to the neck in Manuka honey. They are currently planning a community-facilitated reading group on Edward Said & Jean Genet with support of WAWOG TO (Writers Against the War on Gaza Toronto) and a conference on non-Western cosmologies of music with Labyrinth Ontario and the Music Gallery. You can read their writing online at C Magazine, The Capilano Review, and baest journal. Follow them on Instagram @abolishedbauble or write them emails at fanwu4u@gmail.com.

Sara Wylie is a non-fiction filmmaker, producer and researcher from the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (aka Vancouver). She has directed short films (A Radiant Sphere, 2019), and produced award-winning documentaries (Handsome & Majestic, 2016) and a feature film (Wizard Mode, 2016). Sara graduated with distinction from Ryerson University’s Documentary Media MFA Program in 2019, and her latest documentary The Garden Collective (2020), about the Prison For Women Memorial Collective in Kingston, Ontario, is currently playing in film festivals.

Cathy Xu is an emerging Chinese and Canadian storyteller, based in Vancouver, British Columbia on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories. Her work explores diasporic narratives and knowledge productions, bodies as archives of memory and homeland, and sites of BIPOC and queer resistance and futures. Xu is especially interested in storytelling through food and drawing from mythology and fantasy to imagine and claim identity. Her writing has been published in SAD Magazine, and she is the creator of a virtual platform, featuring oral histories and her artwork, entitled The Imaginary & Love: Women and Non-binary BIPOC Futures. In her day to day, she dreams of pastries and observing plants.

Reyhan Yazdani is an interdisciplinary artist/ designer currently teaching at Emily Carr University of Art & Design. Her creative practice revolves around themes of embodied knowledge, language, displacement and nomadic identities. Reyhan explores notions of de-centering practices, pluralistic understandings, untranslatability, loss and longing through material inquiry, installation, objects, social practice, and poetry.

Katayoon Yousefbigloo is an interdisciplinary artist and musician. Through video, music, writing, and visual art, Yousefbigloo examines how media shapes our mythologies. Reverse engineering cultural narratives, she use speculative fiction as a framework through which to imagine alternate realities and their commercial potentials.

Chelsea Yuill (b. 1992, Edmonton, Canada) is an emerging curator and textile artist. Yuill’s practice explores mythologies and the absurdities in everyday life. She is an intersectional feminist who is in lifelong support of Black Lives Matter and Indigenous Sovereignty movements. These themes fold and movements are folding into her curatorial work to engage the public with contemporary art in surprising, intersectional and thought-provoking ways to build awareness and offer resonance.

Yuill’s most recent curatorial projects include the virtual exhibition Back of My Hand, Capture Photography Festival (2020); A Vase of Pale Roses, Capture Photography Festival (2020); and EAT YOUR TAIL at Access Gallery (2020). She was a co-curator of Intertwined (2018); and 88 Artists from 88 Years (2017) both of which took place at Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECUAD). Yuill holds a BFA from ECUAD with a minor in curatorial practices (2019). Currently, she is the Festival & Publication Coordinator at Capture Photography Festival.

She is of Dutch, Welsh and Scottish ancestry and is an uninvited settler on the unceded and traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (Vancouver, BC).

Coco S. Zhou is a writer based on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territory. 

Anna Zoria (b. Russia, 1990) lives and works in Vancouver. She received her BA in History of Religion, Literature and the Arts at the University of British Columbia in 2013, and her MFA from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2018. In 2019, she was the recipient of the Beaux-Arts de Paris sculpture and installation prize. Her work has featured in numerous group exhibitions including FELICITÀ 19 (Palais des Etudes, Paris), Waiting for the Sun (The Wrong Biennial, Online), Flower Power (Hotel La Louisiane, Paris), Nothing Happens / Everything Matters (11B, Paris), Youngster (Galerie Vanessa Quang, Paris), and Where is my house? (Das Gift, Berlin). In February 2021, she will take part in “Contemporary Russian Artists in Paris” a collaborative, multi-venue project supported by the Hermitage Museum and the Centre Pompidou.

Andy Zuliani is a multi-media artist and writer who lives in “Vancouver”: a colonial fiction located on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. His work is deeply invested in modes of collective healing and care, and hopes to bring these about through immersive, communal experiences. He has performed and mounted installations at Vines Art Festival, at Deep Blue, at Active/Passive Festival, and is an accompanist in residence at the department of dance at SFU.