[antiwar-van] this Thursday, thirstDays No. 09 @ VIVO - 'dying of thirst'

[Jayce Salloum]

thirstDays No. 09

Love, intimacy and (com)passion, in a geopolitical context
-- a monthly series of video, film, performance and ceremony events
Project curator/artist-in-residence Jayce Salloum

dying of thirst
Thu, October 27, 2016, 7.30pm
at VIVO, 2625 Kaslo St., Vancouver
(near Broadway, walking distance from Renfrew Skytrain Station)

Curated by Tannis Nielse and Jenny Fraser

Performance: Lori Blondeau (Cree/Saulteaux)
Video by & featuring: Lee Maracle (Stó:l?), Mique'l Dangeli + Nick Dangeli (Tsimshian), Jenny Fraser (Yugambeh), Helen Knott (Dane Zaa + Nehiyawak), Zoila Jiménez (Mayan), Jules Koostachin (Cree/Attawapiskat), Tannis Nielsen (Métis/Anishnawbe + Danish), Rona Scherer (Mamu + Kuku Yalanji), Alex Wilson (Neyonawak Inniwak Opaskwayak Cree), Rita Wong (Cantonese in Canada)

With this video and performance program we affirm the urgency of defending land and
water, now and for the next seven generations to come. We compel the viewer towards taking action in the protection of our planet and present some of the voices of international indigenous women's struggle and resistance, safeguarding our inter-connectedness with the sacredness of all living things. These voices speak to the recognition and respect of indigenous sovereignty and against the colonial, capitalist resource extraction industries that rape our ancestral territories. They speak toward the seen and the known; animated in their resistance by the fires of prophecy, the love of the land, the people(s), and all of our relations. By sharing these subjectivities and prophecies we hope to begin to recognize each other, to unify and work together toward building an encyclopedia of international emancipatory strategies.

~  Tannis Nielsen + Jenny Fraser

Free admission or stream it live at:
thirstDays.vivomediaarts.com -
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?VIVOMediaArtsCentre/b1d32bd561/TEST/e0bdbc528b

ONLINE
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Upcoming
Upcoming programs curated by Tannis Monkman Nielsen + Jenny Fraser,
Dima Alansari + Cathy Busby, Henry Tsang + Diyan Achjadi, Elisa
Ferrari + Stacey Ho.

Past programs curated by T'uy't'tanat Cease Wyss + Aaron Rice, Ashok
Mathur + Jeneen Frei Njootli, Denise Ryner + Tonel, Irwin Oostindie +
Ronnie Dean Harris, David Khang + Phanuel Antwi, Urban Subjects, Ali
Lohan + Cecily Nicholson

Writer in residence: Tarah Hogue,
essay responses at: thirstDays.vivomediaarts.com

thirstDays is a project conceived as the rain falls and covers us in
slick substance transduced from the skies, moist. How can this, how
can we, contribute to the establishing of a momentum that may have
once been here in waves or pieces but over time was squandered, and
defeated, with the imposition of capital triumphantly declaring its
colonial (un)consciousness in our enclave by the water. Surrounded by
a possible serene beauty, grief and sadness, love and hate, what
encounters do we inscribe into our psyches and into our beings, what
can art do to fulfil a mandate of hope and agency. What can we
contribute.

The project takes inspiration from the patterns of existence to look
at the mechanisms which we are part of, and relate them to all we end
up being, sharing, denying, repressing and preserving. We seek that
which compels us: love, intimacy and (com)passion, explorations of
the commons/(un)commons; empathy and subjectivities; nourishing sites
and situations; modes of agency; and subjectivities of place.

We insist on diversity and threads of collaboration, strands of
'collectivity'/affinity, emphasizing works that have a specificity of
location with resonances/meanings for others within reach and beyond.
There is a socio-psycho imperative here at this site -- Vancouver --
grounded in what is missing and manoeuvering the gaps while
referencing the historic in the present(ness) -- and of the moment --
with the critical reimagining of the repressed and the projection of
empathy and action.

~ Jayce Salloum

Jayce Salloum, a grandson of Syrian immigrants from the Bekaa Valley
(Lebanon) was born and raised on Sylix (Okanagan) territory in
Kelowna, BC. His work has been exhibited in a wide array of venues,
from the smallest unnamed storefronts in his dtes (downtown eastside)
Vancouver neighbourhood to institutions such as the MusÉe du Louvre,
Museum of Modern Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, National Gallery of
Canada, Bienal De La Havana, Sharjah Biennial, Biennale of Sydney and
the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Salloum is a recipient of
the 2014 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.

Jenny Fraser was the first Murri to have her video art broadcast into
outer space in the 2015 Forever Now project - a follow-up to the NASA
Voyager Golden Records sent into space in 1977. She has a PhD in the
Art of Healing and Decolonisation from Batchelor Institute in the
Northern Territory (Australia). Jenny recently received the 2016 Mana
Wairoa Award for Advancing Indigenous Rights, and she received an
Australia Council fellowship for her project Midden in 2012. She
founded the online gallery cyberTribe in 1999, the Blackout
Collective in 2002, and World Screen Culture in 2015. She is on the
National Advisory Group for the Centre for Indigenous Story, and is
an Adjunct Research Fellow at The Cairns Institute.

Tannis Nielsen is of Metis (Anishnawbe) and Danish ancestry. She
holds a Masters in Visual Studies from the University of Toronto. Her
dissertation addresses the need for asserting localized Indigenous
contexts accurately within the structures of the academy by
illustrating the negative consequence of colonial trauma on
Indigenous culture, land, language, familial relationships, and
memory. Tannis' thesis also sought to decolonize the structures of an
English literacy, by repudiating the politicized devices of
punctuation and capitalization. In doing this, she refused to use the
language of the colonizer because "to use the language of the
colonizer was to pay homage to them" (Ng?g? wa Thiong'o). Tannis currently teaches at The Ontario College of Art and Design
University.

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VANCOUVER,   V5M 3G9
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