Jin-me Yoon, Souvenirs of the Self (Postcard Series), 1991, postcards. SFU Art Collection. Gift of the artist, 2015. Photo: Lief Hall. Listening to Pictures link Episode 10 | August 18Laiwan on Jin-me Yoon “We each in turn return to 2021 from 1991 listening to these mountains listening to this lake…” Jin-me Yoon has been a […]
Thanks to Olivia Michiko Gagnon and C Magazine for this lovely review. https://cmagazine.com/issues/151/traces-erasures-resists-laiwan
image (above):Selection of publications by and about the Zimbabwean Women in Contemporary Culture Trust (ZWICCT) 1992-96. Courtesy of Laiwan. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography. Thursday, 31 Mar 2022 from 12-1:30 pm — Virtual Event The online panel Erasures: Cultural Activism and Periodicals is presented in partnership with Western Front on the occasion of the Belkin exhibition […]
Thursday 24 Mar 2022, 6:30 pm, The Cinematheque, 1131 Howe Street, Vancouver, Film Series: Traces and Intervals. This event was free and open to the public. Image courtesy of The Cinematheque, via Instagram. Traces and Intervals featured films by artists Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Trinh T. Minh-ha and Midi Onodera. Like Laiwan, in the early […]
Dear Friends, You are invited to the reception of “Traces, Erasures, Resists” at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery on March 19, 2022 from 2-4pm. https://belkin.ubc.ca/events/reception-and-launch-laiwan-and-tcr/ This happy occasion also launches the latest issue of The Capilano Review — celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2022 with the publication of a three-part glossary — and […]
What a great run! There is only one day left to visit the ten transit shelters for How Water Remembers! The transit posters will change on March 14. You can send your transit shelter pix to sealevelrise@vancouver.ca, subject: How Water Remembers, before March 20, 2022 and be entered to win prizes of a foodie gift […]
It is a pleasure and privilege to be working with the excellent folks at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery on an upcoming solo exhibition. I am without words in how to express my gratitude to everyone at the Belkin, and especially to guest curator Amy Kazymerchyk who has been incredibly supportive, enthusiastic and […]
Dec 21st – Feb 1st, Massy Arts will host a new window installation by Vancouver-based interdisciplinary artist, writer and educator Laiwan. In Phase 1 of “How Water Remembers”, the artist collaborates with Karlene Harvey, Yao Xiao, T’uy’tanat-Cease Wyss, Angela Danyluk, and Sean Cao in a project that explores the path of water and future rising […]
The Libby Leshgold Gallery is pleased to announce the launch of Laiwan’s new video work PANDEMIA — The Movie, as part of the City of Vancouver’s Public Art Program for ECU‘s Urban Screen. Aug 30, 2021, 8:00AM – Feb 28, 2022, 9:00PM On Campus, Urban Screen, Wilson Arts Plaza, Emily Carr University 520 East 1st Ave Vancouver […]
Gratitude to Emily Carr University for awarding me the 2021 Emily Award and to Madeline Barber for this lovely interview: Attending to Small Marvels. I am humbled and with great appreciation for this honour.