Christine Sun Kim

For more than ten years now, Christine Sun Kim has been engaged expansively with the ways sound is understood, experienced and valued. Upending the notion of the sonic as a solely auditory occurrence, the California-born, Berlin-based artist foregrounds sound’s visual, spatial and political properties across a variety of mediums including drawing, video, performance, and installation. Exploring and employing elements of American Sign Language (ASL) — the artist’s first language — alongside other visual communication systems such as musical notation, infographics and memes, the formal vocabulary of Kim’s work is a singular one, engaging with critical precision and deadpan humour the politics of language, listening and voice. 

In *Oh Me Oh My*, Kim brings together a broad selection of recent drawings, along with a new large-scale mural and two public artworks installed on the CAG Façade and at nearby Yaletown-Roundhouse Station. Whether diagramming the structural and cultural underpinnings of seemingly personal decisions, tracing social debts to consider what we owe one another, or mapping the distortions and delays inherent to Deaf/hearing communication, Kim’s works challenge widely held hierarchies that tether voice inextricably to sound, disrupting the implicit authority of the spoken over the signed and the aural over other perceptual planes.


*Christine Sun Kim: Oh Me Oh My* is co-organized by the Contemporary Art Gallery, Remai Modern, the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, and the Gund Gallery at Kenyon College.

### Biography
Christine Sun Kim (b. 1980, California) has exhibited and performed internationally, including at Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Whitney Museum, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; De Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam; the Berlin Biennale; the Shanghai Biennale; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, among many others. Kim was awarded an inaugural Disability Futures Fellowship by the Ford Foundation as well as an MIT Media Lab Fellowship and a TED Senior Fellowship. She lives and works in Berlin.

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A large pencil drawing depicting a venn diagram with three overlapping circles. “When Grammar Mood” is written along the top of the diagram in block text.

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Oh Me Oh My

Tanya Lukin Linklater

The practice of Tanya Lukin Linklater is at once an exploration and articulation of insistence. Across works encompassing performance, video, installation, and writing, Lukin Linklater traces the expansive ways Indigenous knowledges, histories and structures have been embodied and sustained amidst colonialisms’ systemic dispossessions. Centering her focus in and through the body, her works map continuance as an iterative practice, often most powerfully enacted through relational gestures such as conversation, movement, listening and touch.

At the Contemporary Art Gallery, Lukin Linklater presents *An amplification through many minds* (2019), a work that extends from her close engagement with a collection of Alutiiq/Sugpiaq and Unagan belongings originating from her homelands in southern Alaska and the Aleutian Chain, now held by the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology in Berkeley. This video follows Lukin Linklater and a trio of dancers through the process of developing a choreographic score for these displaced belongings that is subsequently performed in the museum’s storage vaults. A gesture towards both restoration and repatriation, this piece is accompanied by a series of new works on paper that index the artist’s presence through land and movement alike.

From November 9 to 11, Lukin Linklater will hold open rehearsals for a choreography she is developing in relation to these new works. Further details can be found [here](https://cagvancouver.org/event/open-rehearsals-with-tanya-lukin-linklater).

*Tanya Lukin Linklater: My mind is with the weather* is co-organized by the Contemporary Art Gallery, Oakville Galleries and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery.

### Biography
Tanya Lukin Linkater (Alutiiq, b. 1976, Kodiak Island, USA) works across dance, performance, video, photography, installation, and writing. Her recent exhibitions include the Aichi Trienniale; New Museum Triennial, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Remai Modern, Saskatoon; Heard Museum, Phoenix; Chicago Architecture Biennial; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; and La Biennale de Montréal. She is currently a doctoral candidate at Queen's University, holding a Master's of Education from the University of Alberta (2003), and a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University (1998). *Slow Scrape*, her first book of poetry, was published by The Centre for Expanded Poetics and Anteism (2020). She lives and works in Nbisiing Anishinaabeg territory in North Bay, Ontario.

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A video still of a dancer in mid-air, performing in a storage space with yellow cabinets lining the walls. She is wearing a blue shirt and purple tights.

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My mind is with the weather

Curator Godfre Leung will offer a guided tour of Christine Sun Kim and Tanya Lukin Linklater's current exhibitions.

### Accessibility 
ASL interpretation is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org) to book or for more information.

### RSVP
No advance registration required.

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Kim, Five Debts, 2022 (CSK 22.007) 1.jpg

with Godfre Leung

Curatorial Tour

Jordan Wilson

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Join us for a talk in the gallery between Tanya Lukin Linklater and Jordan Wilson on the occasion of Lukin Linklater's exhibition *My mind is with the weather*.

### Accessibility 
ASL interpretation is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org) to book or for more information.

### RSVP
Registration for this event is encouraged. Secure your place [here](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/in-conversation-tanya-lukin-linklater-and-jordan-wilson-tickets-474378778697).

### Biographies
Tanya Lukin Linkater (Alutiiq, b. 1976, Kodiak Island, USA) works across dance, performance, video, photography, installation, and writing. Her recent exhibitions include the Aichi Trienniale; New Museum Triennial, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Remai Modern, Saskatoon; Heard Museum, Phoenix; Chicago Architecture Biennial; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; and La Biennale de Montréal. She is currently a doctoral candidate at Queen's University, holding a Master's of Education from the University of Alberta (2003), and a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University (1998). *Slow Scrape*, her first book of poetry, was published by The Centre for Expanded Poetics and Anteism (2020). She lives and works in Nbisiing Anishinaabeg territory in North Bay, Ontario.

Jordan Wilson is an emerging curator and writer, and is currently a PhD student in Anthropology at New York University. He is a member of the Musqueam First Nation. Prior to starting graduate studies, Wilson was a Curatorial Intern at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (2017-2018). He holds an MA in Anthropology and a BA in First Nations Studies (now First Nations and Indigenous Studies), both obtained at the University of British Columbia. Wilson was a co-curator of the exhibits *c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city* (2015) and *In a Different Light: Reflecting on Northwest Coast Art* (2017) at the UBC Museum of Anthropology. Along with Karen Duffek and Bill McLennan, Jordan co-edited the book *Where the Power Is: Indigenous Perspectives on Northwest Coast Art* (2021). He was recently the inaugural Indigenous Curatorial Research Fellow at Independent Curators International (ICI).

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Tanya Lukin Linklater and Jordan Wilson

In Conversation

Howie Tsui

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We are pleased to announce our latest installment of CAG Reads, a book club where artists invite us to read alongside them. Each month an artist proposes text for our collective reading pleasure, culminating in a virtual hangout where the artist leads a wide-ranging discussion grounded in their chosen reading material.

This month, CAG Reads will be hosted by Howie Tsui. Howie has chosen to read *Actual Air* (1999) by David Berman.

### Accessibility 
This event will be live captioned (CART).

ASL interpretation is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org) to book or for more information.

### Getting the texts
Access to *Actual Air* by David Berman will be provided upon registration.

### RSVP
Registration for this event is free, but limited. RSVP to secure your place [here](https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpduusrjwjHNL4iFCjNCiplppZpUPnhkud).

### Biography
Howie Tsui (徐浩恩, b. 1978, Hong Kong - raised in Lagos and Thunder Bay) is based in Vancouver. Working in ink brush, sound sculptures, lenticular lightboxes and installation, Tsui constructs tense, fictive environments that undermine venerated art forms and narrative genres, often stemming from the Chinese literati tradition. He employs a stylized form of derisive and exaggerated imagery as a way to satirize and disarm broadening regimes and their programs of cultural hegemony. The most notable branch of his practice involves the use of algorithmic animation sequences to raise questions around order, chaos and the potential of social harmony through self-organized societies. Tsui synthesizes diverging socio-cultural anxieties around superstition, trauma, surveillance and otherness through a distinctly outsider lens to cast light onto liminal and diasporic experiences. 

### Questions?
Send us a note at [cagreads@cagvancouver.org](mailto:cagreads@cagvancouver.org).

A portrait of Howie Tsui. He is standing against a wall wearing a white shirt with a scribbly green design. He is shaded by the speckled light from an unseen leafy canopy above.

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Howie Tsui presents David Berman

CAG Reads

Rain Cabana-Boucher

Chipo Chipaziwa

Phoebe Bei

Luca Cara Seccafien

Ruby Smith Díaz

CAG and Ground Floor are delighted to announce the recipients of this year's WEDGE residencies. These residencies will provide early-emerging artists and cultural practitioners with the opportunity to work directly with a mentor to explore a research question related to the past, present and or future of “Vancouver” culminating in a public-facing audio output in 2023.

### Phoebe Bei
Mentored by Urban Subjects (Sabine Bitter, Jeff Derksen and Helmut Weber) 

Phoebe Bei is an interdisciplinary artist working largely in image-based processes and installation. Her work navigates fictional and existing embodiments of land, and how land is occupied and disseminated in the production of home, culture and identity. Bei was British Columbia’s recipient of the BMO 1st Art! Prize in 2018 and holds a BFA from Simon Fraser University. She has exhibited at the Audain Gallery, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, James Black Gallery, and Or Gallery.

### Rain Cabana-Boucher
Mentored by Laiwan

Rain Cabana-Boucher is a Michif/British settler interdisciplinary artist raised in Treaty 6 territory, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Her family has historic ties to the Michif communities of St. François Xavier and St. Boniface, Manitoba, and St. Louis, Saskatchewan. She currently lives and works on the stolen land of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaʔ and xwməθkwəy̓əm Nations. Cabana-Boucher explores the autobiographical in relation to place and politics, seeking to navigate the complexities of identity within environments that are rapidly changing under systematic pressures. She is a recent recipient of the Takao Tanabe Prize for emerging British Columbia Painters and the First Peoples’ Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant.

### Chipo Chipaziwa
Mentored by Krystal Paraboo

Chipo Chipaziwa is a visual artist who predominantly works in the medium of performance art. 
 
Chipaziwa’s practice concerns itself with the fluidity of identity, the performativity of the Black body and Chipaziwa’s own investigation of disrupting the gaze of the other. 
 
Chipaziwa has previously worked with the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver, the City of Vancouver and Live Biennale. 
 
Chipaziwa currently resides on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.

### Ruby Smith Díaz
Mentored by Wayde Compton 

Ruby Smith Díaz is an Afrolatina educator, multi-disciplinary artist and body positive personal trainer. She was born in amiskwaciy, and graduated from the University of Alberta with a degree in Education with distinction. Her work as a filmmaker has been featured at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax and at the Vancouver Film Festival. Her writing has appeared in Nora Samaran’s book *Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture* and Harsha Walia’s *Undoing Border Imperialism*. Currently, Ruby spends most of her time facilitating her arts-based Black Histories + Futures workshops in high schools and coaching people of all backgrounds to be their strongest selves.

### Luca Cara Seccafien
Mentored by Afuwa 

Luca Cara Seccafien is a comic artist, printmaker, facilitator, and cultural worker on the stolen ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwxwú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ people. Their semi-autobiographical artwork reflects upon the experience of being disabled by trauma while surviving through relational queerness.

Luca has worked alongside veteran artists and activists at 221A, Gallery Gachet, Powell Street Festival, Queer Arts Festival, Heart of the City Festival, and beyond. They’ve spent twelve years working in fundraising, administration, operational, managerial, and production capacities in the arts. Luca co-founded WePress Community Arts Space, where they facilitated printmaking education for communities coping with systemic oppression.

A collage featuring, amongst other details, a bird’s-eye view of a mottled orange surface, a wedge of light blue fun fur and a bread tag. In blue iridescent text, the word “WEDGE” appears across the image.

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A black and white portrait of Phoebe Bei. It is closely cropped to frame her face. She is looking directly into the camera.

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Phoebe Bei_Headshot.jpg

A portrait of Rain Cabana-Boucher. She is seated in front of a black and white painting hung on a white brick wall, on which two smaller images hang.

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Rain Cabana-Boucher_Headshot.jpg

A portrait of Chipo Chipaziwa. The image is a screenshot of an open Photobooth window. The bottom half of her face and torso are within frame.

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A portrait of Ruby Smith Díaz. Half of her face is within the frame. A lens flare stretches across the photo.

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Ruby Smith Diaz_Headshot.jpg

A portrait of Luca Cara Seccafien. They are wearing a blue button up shirt and a blazer. A view of the city is behind them.

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