LAIWAN — interdisciplinary artist, writer and educator

ProjectsHow Water Remembers › Phase 1 — “Rivers Have Mouths” Exhibition 2021

PHASE 1: RIVERS HAVE MOUTHS

Rivers Have Mouths, 2021 — installation view

From Dec 21st 2021 to Feb 1st 2022, Massy Arts Society hosted How Water Remembers in the windows at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown, Vancouver.

Gallery hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 12pm to 5pm.

For more info visit Massy Gallery Window Exhibition

Read an interview with Rafael Zen of Massy Arts here.

Rivers Have Mouths, 2021 — installation view
Rivers Have Mouths, 2021 — installation view
Rivers Have Mouths, 2021 — installation view
Rivers Have Mouths, 2021 — installation view
Rivers Have Mouths, 2021 — installation view
Rivers Have Mouths, 2021 — installation view
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Rivers Have Mouths, 2021 — installation view
Rivers Have Mouths, 2021 — installation view
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

How Water Remembers is made possible by funding support from the British Columbia Arts Council.
Partial support for translation costs is made possible by the Goddard College Faculty Development Fund.
And thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts for continued support of my practice.
Illustrations & Image Research: Karlene Harvey (Tsilhqot'in/Syilx)
Chinese Translations, Researcher, Community Outreach & Engagement: Yao Xiao 蕭堯
Indigenous Consultation, Researcher, Storytelling & Ethnobotany: T'uy'tanat-Cease Wyss (Skwxwu7mesh/Sto:Lo/ Hawaiian/Swiss)

Consultation on Biodiversity & False Creek Mudflat Inhabitants: Angela Danyluk, Biologist, City of Vancouver
Chinatown Outreach & Participatory Facilitation: Sean Cao 曹碩.

Thanks also to curators Lam Wong and Sarah Ling for inviting me to take part in Rivers Have Mouths and to the Dr Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden for hosting the exhibition.

Covid19 social distancing guidelines apply. Admission can be reserved here: RESERVE ADMISSION

Biofilm — diatoms
Dungeness Crab
Great Blue Heron
Lewis’s Moon Snail
Lyngbye’s Sedge
Moonglow Anemone
Olympia Oyster
Pickleweed
River Otter
Western Sandpiper
Rivers Have Mouths, 2021 — exhibition poster
Sys Heron 2

The Great Blue Heron who has settled into a home at the Dr Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden/ Sighted in October, 2021