Sheila Heti on memory, dreams and narrative
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas on Haida manga and culture-crossing
Faith Moosang on the futile gesture in found photo albums
Christopher Grabowski on returning home
New World, Old World — David Campion and Sandra Shields Mountains, lakes, and valleys play a major role in how we orient ourselves within the world. In “New World, Old World” Campion explores the modern-day floodplain of the Fraser River in a series of photographs that are paired with first-hand accounts and memories unearthed by Sandra Shields of the landscape’s past.
Unofficial Histories — Faith MoosangFrom the Blue Star Potato Chip factory during WWII to the trenches of Vimy Ridge and beyond — Moosang constructs personal perspectives of historical events from abandoned photograph albums discovered in Vancouver.
Habitations and Inhabitants — Anne Grant A photographic exploration of one old apartment house and its residents, past and present, as a means to discover the effect of place on memory (and vice versa), and the ways in which photography becomes memory (and vice versa).
RECENT PROJECTS
At SFU Harbour Centre in august 2008
At the fibre essence gallery, july-august 2008
Memory & Narrative – David AlbahariA talk and reading by David Albahari took place on Monday, 12 May, at SFU Harbour Centre. He spoke of the ties between identity and memory, and questioned why we cling to our memories so desperately. Most arrestingly, Albahari proposed that “out of all of the possible stories we are afraid we will find ourselves in a story where nothing happens.”
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The Downtown Memory ProjectPlace evokes memory. Participants in this contest were invited to write about a memory they had of downtown Vancouver and the result was arresting. Literally. Several pieces were selected to be written on the windows of the Harbour Centre building. Others were nestled into corners of the building itself. The exhibit will reopen at the Vancouver Museum in November 2008.
Click here for more details about the Harbour Centre project, May to July 2008.
at the push festival IN JANUARY 2008
Clark and I Somewhere in Connecticut
A play about remaking memoryby James Long
Staged from Janaury 29 to February 3, Performance Works was home to this stunning multi-disciplinary piece. It also featured a talk with Memory Festival artist Faith Moosang, which was swell.
Most recently, the play won the Sydney Risk Prize for Outstanding Original Script by an Emerging Playwright as well as the Jessie Award’s Innovation Award sponsored by the Vancouver Sun. Congratulations everyone!
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a rumble productions—theatre replacement production in association with the PuSh Festival