Eco Film-Processing Workshop

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Join us for an eco film-processing workshop led by artists Ana Valine, Karen Zalamea, and Sidney Gordon.

Or Gallery is delighted to present an eco film-processing workshop led by exhibiting artists Ana Valine, Karen Zalamea, and Sidney Gordon, responding to the Coursing exhibition guest curated by Katrina Goetjen. This program will involve a neighbourhood walking tour and plant botanical film development lesson. At the close of the workshop, participants will be invited to respond with a guided writing exercise reflecting on collectivity, care and water stewardship. This free event will take place rain or shine—please dress accordingly. Participants are encouraged to bring a notebook and writing utensil.If you have any questions or accessibility requests please email or@orgallery.org.This event is free and open to all. Capacity is limited to 10 participants. Waitlisted participants will be contacted as space becomes available. CoursingAna Valine, Karen Zalamea, and Sidney GordonCurated by: Katrina GoetjenIn the hydrocommons, everything stays coursing, everywhere is downstream.This exhibition brings together artists Ana Valine, Karen Zalamea, and Sidney Gordon to examine the run-off of everyday industry and cultural production. In their lens- and light-based practices, these artists explore site-specific treatment of the hydrocommons and its broader impacts.Our coastal city—known for its historical contribution to photoconceptualism and for its role as “Hollywood North”—has yet to issue guidelines for waterway care in relation to darkroom practices, illuminating the limits of other industries’ protocols. Coursing explores the shifting conditions and contaminations of our waters using photographic emulsion as a marker. Through their embodied practices, the artists invite contradictory methodologies together—wet versus dry, analogue versus digital, natural versus human-made—thus drawing out poetic connections between waterways and watery beings.Together these works highlight the liquid intelligence entangled in their production, and question the assumption that our surrounding waterways hold the capacity to absorb our activities.Bios: Ana ValineAna Valine is an artist, writer, and director based in Vancouver, Canada, on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations. Her award-winning films have screened internationally in Spain, Russia, India, South Korea, Turkey, Armenia, Iceland, and the USA. Her work has been presented at The Polygon Gallery, The Libby Leshgold Gallery, Paneficio Gallery and Modern Fuel. Valine’s projects have received support from the Canada Council for the Arts and The Polygon Gallery’s Lind Prize. She is an alumna of the Canadian Film Centre, Women in the Director’s Chair (WIDC), Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Talent Lab, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and is currently a Film Studies PhD candidate at Queen’s University.Karen ZalameaKaren Zalamea is a Filipino-Canadian artist, educator, and cultural worker based in Burnaby, Canada, on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh speaking peoples. Her interdisciplinary practice is rooted in photography and critically considers methodologies, materiality, and modes of presentation. Zalamea’s projects have received support from the Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. She has carried out artist residencies in the Philippines, Iceland, and Canada. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions and as public art projects across Canada and internationally. She is the recipient of the third annual Prefix Prize in photography. Zalamea holds an MFA from Concordia University, and a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design.Sidney GordonSidney Gordon is a queer artist, curator and cultural worker born and raised on Treaty 4 territory. They hold a BMA in Film + Screen Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in so-called “Vancouver”, where they have lived and worked since 2018. Their multimedia practice is experimental and emulsion-based. The main focus of Gordon’s film work is creating experiential embodiment, often portraying and deriving from personal subconscious experiences, while their cameraless photographic practice focuses on questioning authorship through ecological co-creation. Their work has been shown in various local and international festivals, programs and galleries; most recently including The Polygon Gallery (2022 Lind Prize Shortlist), Vancouver International Festival (2022) and Capture Photography Festival (2021).Image Credit: Sidney Gordon, Eco Film-Processing Workshop Preparation, 2023. Courtesy of the artist.

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