stefanafratila:

“no history”

Performed at Skylight Gallery on April 10th 2015 in Vancouver, on the unceded Indigenous territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skxwú7mesh-ulh Úxwumixw, Stó:lo and Tsleil-Waututh nations.

As a gesture of bearing witness to ongoing colonial violence, I wrote this piece and sampled Stephen Harper’s 2008 “apology” for the Indian Residential School system, his G20 speech only a year later (where he stated in candid denial that Canada has “no history of colonialism”), and time-stretched excerpts from Tanya Tagaq’s “Ancestors” (who is a throat-singer from Ikaluktuutiak and one of approximately 150,000 Indigenous children who attended a residential school).

My idea was to create a piece in ‘time-stretched witnessing’, where sounds from a colonial reality are extended so that we can hear them more deeply and clearly. As a means of retracing memory, the moment of bearing witness is also longer, more moving and more meaningful.

Stefana Fratila, one of the featured artists in this year’s Art Waste Group Show


illustration by Courtney Garvin, one of the artists in this year’s Group Show

illustration by Courtney Garvin, one of the artists in this year’s Group Show


thedrawingsofolga:
“from discorder april 2015
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Olga Abeleva, featured in this year’s Art Waste Group Show

thedrawingsofolga:

from discorder april 2015

Olga Abeleva, featured in this year’s Art Waste Group Show


Caton Diab, featured in this year’s Art Waste Group Show

Caton Diab, featured in this year’s Art Waste Group Show


a Music Waste alumni captured by Lauren Ray, one of the artists featured in this year’s Art Waste Group Show

a Music Waste alumni captured by Lauren Ray, one of the artists featured in this year’s Art Waste Group Show

Today is the last day to send in your submissions on the theme ‘IN DREAMS’ to the 2015 Art Waste Group Show.
SUBMIT HERE

Today is the last day to send in your submissions on the theme ‘IN DREAMS to the 2015 Art Waste Group Show.

SUBMIT HERE


zineclubing:
“Katayoon Yousefbigloo - Vancouver BC
January zine, 2015
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zineclubing:

Katayoon Yousefbigloo - Vancouver BC
January zine, 2015


zineclubing:
“Lindsay Hampton - Vancouver BC
January zine, 2015
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zineclubing:

Lindsay Hampton - Vancouver BC
January zine, 2015


Art Waste Submissions Now Open (March 2 - April 17, 2015)

artwaste:

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This year’s Group Show theme is “IN DREAMS”: explore your own alternate reality, reinterpret a subconscious landscape or recreate a nightmare. We are looking for submissions that are drawn from your other waking life – the impossible or the mundane, the hoped or the feared, the meaningful or the inexplicable. Artists may choose to interpret the theme however they wish, although we will give preference to submissions that respond to the theme directly.

SUBMIT: http://bit.ly/1GcQ7FW

Only TEN more days to submit your work for this year’s Group Show.