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Image credit: Lloyd Wong Unfinished, by Lesley Loski Chan (2025)
Endearing Insanity explores the longing for connection and visibility in a displaced environment. Set within a confined apartment, the protagonist, trapped in various enclosed spaces such as a cabinet, microwave, and sink, performs a monologue while waiting for someone to visit. The text, drawn from online message boards,… ⊕
Winners and Losers is created using original video footage recorded by Paul Wong. This work shines a light on a piece of recent Vancouver history that many would prefer to forget: the 2011 Stanley Cup Playoff riots. The video puts together recordings of gatherings in the downtown core in and around the hockey arena; these… ⊕
Busshead Hardhead is a short split-screen video forming part of an installation called Busshead Hardhead for the Plural of He Exhibit (March - July 2024) at Leslie Lohman Museum, curated by Andil Gosine. On the left side of this split screen video, the viewer sees the legs of a beach walker, moving back and forth, struggling to… ⊕
Letter To My Tribe addresses a question: Why don’t more Jews and Israelis speak out about Palestine? Over many years my mother and I have had numerous arguments which form the backbone of this video essay. Interviews with journalists, activists and a rabbi are interwoven with documentation of actions in the West Bank,… ⊕
2020, 07:09 minutes
tapecode 2183.03
When I'm turned on, there's always that red light lit. When my body is on record. How can self-risk-taking be put to work in relation to aesthetic self-creation? HIV and AIDS are not over.