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Image credit: The Invisible Hippo of Grief: An Adoption Story, by Donna Szoke (2026)
A love story. A liberation story. A story of queer resistance and how building community can transform us. Explore the ephemeral legacy of Vancouver’s historic Little Sister’s Book and Art Emporium. Before the internet, we relied on printed materials and a central gathering place. How do we create a deep personal… ⊕
2025, 86:16 minutes, colour
tapecode 504.06
I am the Art is a bold, intimate portrait of a Japanese-Canadian trailblazer whose creativity has never stopped evolving. From early sculpture to sound poetry, avant-garde jazz, and now live performance, Nobuo Kubota has spent a lifetime breaking rules and fusing East and West, silence and sound, memory and experiment. But this… ⊕
This work utilizes text, which I had been playing with since 1996. The text is a stream of consciousness type list of things that “I really should” do, such as “pay back my student loan,” “drink more water,” “take more chances,” “clean out the litter box,” etc…… ⊕
In Video Traction is a single-channel video by Clive Robertson that was shot on a set in the Grand Luxe Hall designed to simulate a hospital room and waiting area. The video combines performance documentation with a dialogue staged between Robertson and Hank Bull. The video, subtitled “Act 1: The Encoding and Decoding… ⊕
Inclination is an iteration of a work I made 20 years ago working with intimate gestures from the Islamic prayer. As my relationship to the land on which I reside has deepened, the gesture of sajdah (prostration) has become a form of territorial acknowledgment. I touch my head to the ground remembering my connection to the… ⊕
