Alex Morrison

For more than twenty years, the practice of Vancouver-based artist Alex Morrison has explored the aesthetics of utopian thought, whether as embedded in activism and counterculture or architecture and design. Highlighting the persistent ways radical ideals and impulses are historicized, distorted and repurposed over time, Morrison’s work traces the means by which even the most persuasive of vernaculars cycle from avant-garde to kitsch and commodity.

In *Nooks and Corners*, Morrison presents a suite of new and recent works in painting and sculpture that extend his ongoing investigation into cultural identification and the ways identity and politics are fashioned aesthetically, particularly in the domestic sphere. Whether reflecting on the migration of once-revolutionary abstractions into the decorative and ornamental, the house- plant as an object of status and signification, or architectural revivalisms emptied of their styles’ foundational integrities and optimisms, Morrison foregrounds the inevitable divergences between the original intent of a given aesthetic and its continuous, often contradictory adaptation to new social and political ends.

### Biography 

Alex Morrison was born in Redruth, UK and currently lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. His work has been exhibited at White Columns, New York; La Plage, Paris; Vancouver Art Gallery; Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff; and Artspeak, Vancouver, amongst other venues. His work is held by the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal; Museum Abteiberg; Germany; Zabludowicz Collection, London, and numerous other public and private collections.

ProgramGuideWinter2022.pdf

CAG_AlexMorrison_ExhibitionGuide.pdf

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Nooks and Corners

Alison Yip

Across her work in painting, wall treatments, writing, and sculpture, artist Alison Yip moves between the observational and the speculative. Known for an ongoing concern with the ambiguities and ambivalences of figuration and perception, Yip’s works often evoke transitional states, mystical forms and psychic or spiritual phenomena to consider the disconnected ways humans experience time, space, self, and relationships.

Reflecting on the radical systems failures and temporal shifts of the current moment, Yip’s most recent body of work, *Soma Topika*, led her to look for ways to envision alternative futures. Undertaking parallel divinatory processes, Yip engaged both a neo-shaman and a psychic, posing to each an identical set of questions about her life, relationships and desires. From this, she produced two sets of intimate oil paintings, depicting herself in each as a poseable mannequin in scenes that interpret the concurrent yet contradictory predictions delivered to her. Rendered on unconventional substrates — scraps of metal for the psychic’s predictions and laminate floor tiles for the neo-shaman’s — Yip presents these works at CAG amidst a gallery under renovation, offering a scene that is as provisional and unfixed as the futures she seeks.

### Biography

Alison Yip‘s multidisciplinary practice finds ways of speaking to the dispersed nature of our cognitive apparatus, often working from the psycho-phenomenal origins of figuration. Ambivalent tensions are evoked through a mix of withholding expressions, over-used or popular imagery and various pictorial modes. Yip holds a BFA from the Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Canada. She continued her studies at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany and in 2016 received an MFA from the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg, Germany. Recent solo, collaborative and group exhibitions include Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin; Mauer, Cologne; Mécènes du Sud, Montpellier; Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund; Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver; ACUD, Berlin; and Lady Helen, London.

ExhibitionGuideAlisonYip.pdf

AlisonYipEssayTizianaLaMelia.pdf

A close up view of a painting depicting three seated figures, the central one is a life-size wooden doll, surrounded by two humans with crossed legs holding paper notes.

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An unfinished wooden wall structure in a gallery space on which hangs a wooden panel with black text, translucent plastic sheets and a small painting.  More paintings and a sculpture are visible through the wall.

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Three small paintings hang on a gallery wall draped with plastic sheetings. To the left is an unfinished wooden wall structure. A sculpture made of yellow textiles, plastic and rope sits on the floor. 

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Four small paintings on faux-marble tiles hang along a gallery wall draped with translucent plastic sheets.

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 Small paintings hang on gallery walls draped with plastic sheets. An angled view of an unfinished wall structure intersects the view. A sculpture made of textiles, plastic and rope sits on the floor. 

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Two small paintings hang stacked on a gallery wall draped with translucent plastic sheets. The painting on the top is painted on a faux-marble tile, the one on the bottom on a vertical sheet of metal.

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 Four small paintings hang on gallery walls draped with translucent plastic sheets. A stack of pink paper and a sculpture made of yellow textiles, plastic and rope sits on the floor. 

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A small painting on a textured metal sheet hangs on a gallery wall draped with translucent plastic sheets.

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A corner view of two small paintings on metal sheets hanging on gallery walls draped in translucent plastic. A stack of bright pink papers sits on the floor at the base of the wall. 

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A small copper painting hangs on a white gallery wall draped in translucent plastic sheets. To the left a small blue painting on a metal sheer hangs on an unfinished wooden wall structure.

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Small paintings hang on gallery walls draped with plastic sheets. At the entrance is an unfinished wall structure, paintings hang on either side of it. A sculpture made of textiles, plastic and rope sits on the floor. 

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 A low-lying sculpture sits on a gallery floor. The sculpture is made of yellow and black scarves, brown rope and scraps of plastic packaging tied in knots and draped over a metal seat like structure. 

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A close view of a sculpture made of yellow and black scarves, brown rope and scraps of plastic packaging tied in knots and draped over a metal seat-like structure. 

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Soma Topika

Each season, CAG releases a series of Video Visits that offer short takes on our exhibitions. Presented in five languages — Cantonese, English, French, Mandarin and Spanish — these videos present a variety of perspectives on the work of Alex Morrison and Alison Yip. 

### English Video Visits
[Alex Morrison: Nooks and Corners](https://vimeo.com/693704052)
[Alison Yip: Soma Topika](https://vimeo.com/693694179)

### Visites vidéo en français
[Alex Morrison: Nooks and Corners](https://vimeo.com/694087616)
[Alison Yip: Soma Topika](https://vimeo.com/694089419)

### Visitas de video en español
[Alex Morrison: Nooks and Corners](https://vimeo.com/694088250)
[Alison Yip: Soma Topika](https://vimeo.com/694090049)

### 普通话视频之旅
[Alex Morrison: Nooks and Corners](https://vimeo.com/693705002)
[Alison Yip: Soma Topika](https://vimeo.com/693695561)

### 粵語視頻參觀
[Alex Morrison: Nooks and Corners](https://vimeo.com/693703503)
[Alison Yip: Soma Topika](https://vimeo.com/693693734)

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Winter 2022

Video Visits

Michelle Bui

Please join us to celebrate the closing of Alex Morrison’s *Nooks and Corners* and Alison Yip’s *Soma Topika* (both closing May 1) and the opening of Michelle Bui’s *Mutable Materialism* (on view until August 28). All ages welcome! Cash bar. 

Spring Exhibition Party

Chelsea Yuill

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Please join us for an in-person conversation at the gallery between artist Michelle Bui and curators Julia Lamare and Chelsea Yuill on the occasion of Bui’s current exhibition [*Mutable Materialism*](https://cagvancouver.org/exhibition/michelle-bui).

### ASL interpretation

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 free, but required. RSVP to secure your place [here](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/317741903587).

### Acknowledgements
This event is co-presented by the Contemporary Art Gallery and Capture Photography Festival.

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Michelle Bui with Julia Lamare and Chelsea Yuill

In Conversation

Douglas Watt

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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 Douglas Watt. Douglas has chosen to read Derek McCormack’s satiric novella *Castle Faggot* (2020). 

Douglas Watt is an artist living and working in Vancouver's Davie Village on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh people. He received a BA in Art History from Carleton University, and studied Criticism & Curatorial Practice at OCAD University, Toronto. He is currently pursuing his Master's of Fine Art in Interdisciplinary Arts from Simon Fraser University. Recent solo exhibitions include *Stunning Evidence*, Unit 17, Vancouver (2020) and *Deep End Epiphany*, Downs & Ross, New York (2021). Most recently, he was included in *Some say the soul is made of wind*, Downs & Ross, New York (2021); *Spirit Off*, Yaby, Madrid (2021); and *Infinity Ball* with Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes, Unit 17, Vancouver (2022).

### Getting the book

Copies of the book can be ordered through [Massy Books](https://www.massybooks.com/). Please allow 1-2 weeks for delivery.

### RSVP

Registration for this event is free, but limited. RSVP to secure your place [here](https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUuf-iqrDMvEtSW7IoPeCsZDTD8PF6b9tMh).

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

### CART Captions

This event will be live captioned (CART). For more information please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org)

### ASL interpretation

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.

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Douglas Watt presents Derek McCormack

CAG Reads

Capture Photography Festival’s Assistant Curator Chelsea Yuill will welcome guests for a tour of *Michelle Bui: Mutable Materialism*. No advance registration required for this event.

### Biography

Chelsea Yuill is a curator whose practice aims to connect the public with contemporary art practices in transformative and thought-provoking ways. Her curatorial projects include the alumni exhibition *88 Artists from 88 Years* (2017), and *Intertwined* (2018) both at Emily Carr University of Art + Design; and *EAT YOUR TAIL*, Access Gallery (2020). As the Assistant Curator at Capture Photography Festival, she has coordinated three annual catalogues, multiple public art projects, and virtual exhibitions, curating *Elisabeth Belliveau: A Vase with Pale Roses* (2020), *Rydel Cerezo: Back of My Hand* (2020), *Yumna Al-Arashi: Holy Terrain* (2021), *Simon Bermeo-Ehmann: CLIPS* (2021), *Celia Perrin Sidarous: Flotsam* (2021), *Mahmoud El Safadi: Becoming* (2021), *Michelle Bui: Mutable Materialism* (2022), and *Joseph Maida: Things “R” Queer* (2022).  Her interview with Dana Qaddah was published in *ReIssue* (2021), and she was a mentee in the Momus Emerging Critics Residency (2021). Yuill holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2019), and is based in so-called Vancouver on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

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Curatorial Tour

Karen Zalamea

One Saturday each month, CAG invites a guest host to lead walkthroughs of our current exhibitions, offering their insights and response to the works on view. In April, we welcome Karen Zalamea to speak on the work of Michelle Bui. No advance registration required for this event.

### Biography

Karen Zalamea (she/her) is a Filipino-Canadian artist, educator, and cultural worker based in Vancouver, Canada, the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Zalamea’s interdisciplinary practice is rooted in photography and critically considers methodologies, materiality, and modes of presentation. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions and as public art projects across Canada and internationally. Zalamea holds an MFA from Concordia University, Montreal, and a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver.

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Karen Zalamea on Michelle Bui

Saturday Session

Svava Tergesen

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Open Studio is a monthly program for young visitors and families inspired by contemporary art practices and CAG’s current exhibitions. Please join us for an art-making workshop designed by artist Svava Tergesen and led by CAG staff. 

Inspired by Michelle Bui’s upcoming exhibition *Mutable Materialism*, participants will be invited to create unique sculptures made out of food, learning different techniques and approaches to building their very own sculptural creations with kitchen staples. 

Svava Tergesen (b. 1993, Vancouver, BC, Canada) is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in photography.  Combining elements of sculpture, collage and cooking, her work reimagines everyday experiences of domesticity, gender and health. Tergesen’s recent commission with the City of Vancouver, *Garnished Sundries*, was on view on 20 bus shelters around Vancouver in January 2021.  She has exhibited at the Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver, and was recently long-listed for the New Generation Photography Prize.

### RSVP
A limited number of spots will be available. To attend the event in person, please register via Eventbrite [here](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/open-studio-food-as-sculpture-with-svava-tergesen-tickets-294949450747). 

### COVID-19
All children must be accompanied by an adult. Masks are requested for all ages 5 and up. Vaccine passports will be checked for participants 12 years and older.

If you are unwell on the day of the workshop, please stay home! We’ll look forward to welcoming you to another Open Studio event soon.

For any questions, please email [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org)


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Food as Sculpture by Svava Tergesen

Open Studio

One Saturday each month, CAG invites a guest host to lead walkthroughs of our current exhibitions, offering their insights and response to the works on view. In March, Alex Morrison will speak on his project *Nooks and Corners*. No advance registration required for this event.

### Biography

Alex Morrison was born in Redruth, UK and currently lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. His work has been exhibited at White Columns, New York; La Plage, Paris; Vancouver Art Gallery; Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff; and Artspeak, Vancouver, amongst other venues. His work is held by the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal; Museum Abteiberg; Germany; Zabludowicz Collection, London, and numerous other public and private collections.

### COVID-19
Vaccine passports will be checked for participants ages 12 and older.


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Alex Morrison on Nooks and Corners

Tiziana La Melia

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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 Tiziana La Melia. Tiziana has chosen to read four poems from Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge’s collection *Hello, the Roses* (2013), along with the essays “On Secrets: Eight Beginnings, Two Ends” from Mary Ruefle’s *Madness, Rack, and Honey* (2012) and “Proportion Surviving” from Renee Gladman’s *Juice* (2000).

Tiziana La Melia is an artist and writer. Born in Palermo, raised on an orchard and currently residing on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. She is the author of two books and is currently working on a dual language book titled *I come from a long line of people who don’t use words* (Archive Books, 2022); *Kletic Kink*, a forthcoming poetry album; and *The Simple Life: A Drama Between Mice*, consisting of video, confessions, drawings, clothing mood boards, and a collaborative tabloid magazine. Recent solo and collaborative exhibitions include *Fly Robin Fly*, Mécènes du sud, Montpellier (2021); *Global Cows*, Damien and the Love Guru, Brussels (2019/2020); *St. Agatha’s Stink Script*, galerie anne baurrault, Paris (2019); *Garden Gossip*, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff (2017-18); *Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures*, Vancouver Art Gallery (2016-17); *Down to Write You This Poem Sat*, Oakville Galleries, Oakville (2016); and *Pigeon Looks for Death Between the Needle and the Haystack*, Unit 17, Vancouver (2018). Her writing has appeared in *Art21*, *Organism for Poetic Research*, *C Magazine*, and *The Interjection Calendar*, amongst other outlets.

### Getting the texts

Access to all of Tiziana’s CAG Reads selections 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/tZIlcequrj8tGdPf8eLrzckJLyZ_WKr_4VrA).

### Accessibility

This event will be live captioned (CART). ASL interpretation is also 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.

### Questions? 

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


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Tiziana La Melia presents Mary Ruefle, Renee Gladman, and Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

CAG’s Executive Director Matthew Hyland will lead a tour of the winter 2022 exhibitions, including *Alex Morrison: Nooks and Corners*.

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Curatorial Tour 

Jack Kenna

Open Studio is a monthly program for young visitors and families inspired by contemporary art practices and CAG’s current exhibitions. Please join us for an art-making workshop with artist Jack Kenna. Inspired by Alex Morrison’s exhibition *Nooks and Corners*, Jack will lead the group in creating their own unique paper collage while sharing tips and techniques to create 3D illusions within their 2D collage. 

### RSVP
A limited number of spots will be available. To attend the event in person, please register via Eventbrite [here](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/open-studio-3d-illusions-and-collage-with-jack-kenna-tickets-275265084277). 

### COVID-19 
All children must be accompanied by an adult. Masks are required for all ages 5 and up. Vaccine passports will be checked for participants 12 years and older.

If you are unwell on the day of the workshop, please stay home! We’ll look forward to welcoming you to another Open Studio event soon.

For any questions, please email [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org)

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 3D Illusions and Collage with Jack Kenna

Cole Pauls

We are pleased to announce our latest instalment of CAG Reads, a book club where artists invite us to read alongside them. Each month an artist proposes a 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 Cole Pauls. Cole has chosen the graphic novel *Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band* (2020) by Christian Staebler and Sonia Paoloni, illustrated by Thibault Balahy. 

### Biography

Cole Pauls is a Champagne & Aishihik Citizen and Tahltan comic artist, illustrator & printmaker hailing from Haines Junction (Yukon Territory) with a BFA in Illustration from Emily Carr University. Residing in Vancouver, Pauls has created 3 graphic novels: *Dakwäkãda Warriors* (2019), *Pizza Punks* (2021) and *Kwändür* (2022). In 2017, Pauls won Broken Pencil Magazine’s Best Comic and Best Zine of the Year Award for *Dakwäkãda Warriors II*. In 2020, *Dakwäkãda Warriors* won Best Work in an Indigenous Language from the Indigenous Voices Awards and was nominated for the Doug Wright Award categories The Egghead & The Nipper.

### Getting the texts
*Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band* is available to order from [Massy Books](https://www.massybooks.com/contact-us/); a limited number of copies will be available for sale at the CAG Bookstore. The book can also be found at the [Vancouver Public Library](https://www.vpl.ca/). 




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Cole Pauls presents Christian Staebler and Sonia Paoloni

semillites hernández velasco

For the February instalment of Open Studio, artist semillites hernández velasco leads us in a drawing activity inspired by Alison Yip’s exhibition *Soma Topika*. In this project, Yip explores ways to envision alternative futures, drawing on the practices of a neo-shaman and psychic to create her paintings.

Watch the video and follow along as semillites shows us how to use the roll of a die to generate fantastical self-portraits of a future self.

### Materials

A limited supply of free material kits are available at the gallery–come by to see Alison Yip’s work in person and pick one up! Or, gather the materials below at home to get started:

- six or more pieces of coloured paper
- at least one six-sided die
- six or more index or recipe cards (or plain paper cut into rectangles of about 5” x 7”)
- an assortment of crayons, markers and/or coloured pencils
- scissors

If you do not have a six-sided die, you can use a virtual die [here](https://freeonlinedice.com/). 

The word generator semillites refers to in the video can be found [here](https://www.thegamegal.com/word-generator/).

Portrait of Your Future Self with semillites hernández velasco

Join CAG’s Acting Associate Curator Julia Lamare for a guided tour of the current exhibitions, including *Alison Yip: Soma Topika*.

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with Julia Lamare

On the occasion of Alison Yip’s exhibition, *Soma Topika*, which engages with divinatory practices as a means to envision alternative futures, Vancouver psychic Star Magic was invited to offer her reflections on Yip’s work.

Star Magic on Alison Yip

Video Tour

Elisa Ferrari

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 a 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 Elisa Ferrari. Elisa has chosen “Pinky Agarwalia: Biography of a Child Saint in Ten Parts” (2020) by Bhanu Kapil, and excerpts from Jackie Wang’s *the sunflower cast a spell to save us from the void* (2021) and Erin Moure’s *Sitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, By Toots* (2017). 

### Getting the texts
“Pinky Agarwalia: Biography of a Child Saint in Ten Parts” can be read in full [here](https://granta.com/pinky-agarwalia/). PDF scans of selections from *the sunflower cast a spell to save us from the void* and *Sitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, By Toots* can be accessed [here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Hl51qBdEue_8SjQyQDl006uRbdZgb1q7/view) and [here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Hm9dBXyHHDa_iRGxnrPOmQFFYheEhfv6/view).

If you’re interested in seeing more from these writers, [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=881&v=BONE_Q4rdQY&feature=youtu.be) is a video of Bhanu Kapil reading excerpts from “Pinky Agarwalia.” A conversation between Kapil, Jackie Wang, and Fred Moten at the Woodberry Poetry Room can be seen [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjsB3E-7Oyw).

### Biography

Elisa Ferrari is an artist and organizer of sound events and other happenings. Her projects often stem from considerations of place with particular attention to the impact and repercussions of extractive economies. Her interdisciplinary practice and collaborations are concerned with memory formation, idleness, translingual ecologies, sonic sediments and the infrasonic.  She is one of the hosts of Soundscape on Vancouver coop-radio. She lives in Vancouver as an uninvited guest on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̍əm, Skwxwú7mesh and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ  territories, and in Brescia, Italy. 
