Since 2016, New York-based artist collective CFGNY has investigated the transnational circulation of style. The group explores a constellation of aesthetics across architecture, contemporary fashion, historical collecting practices, and cultures of “cuteness” to address a condition it calls “vaguely Asian.” Approaching subjectivity and identity as relational and unresolved, CFGNY conceives its art-making – integrally collaborative within and beyond the collective – as an act of sociality.

#### Biography
CFGNY is an artist collective whose research-based practice takes the form of image making, installation, sculpture, and performance to expand ideas of racialization and subjectivity. Founded in 2016, the collective continually returns to the term “vaguely Asian”: an understanding of racial identity as a specific cultural experience combined with the experience of being perceived as other. Recent exhibitions, performances and projects include Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York (2025), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2024), PIN-UP Magazine, Milan (2023), SculptureCenter, New York (2022), Japan Society, New York (2022), X Museum, Beijing (2021), RISD Museum, Providence (2019), and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2018). In October 2024, CFGNY was named Frieze London’s Focus Stand Prize winner for its presentation with Hot Wheels, Athens and London. CFGNY is composed of Daniel Chew, Ten Izu, Kirsten Kilponen, and Tin Nguyen.

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Continuous Fractures Generating New Yields

CFGNY

Lindsay McIntyre

​​Lindsay McIntyre engages filmmaking as a material practice. For over twenty-five years, she has experimented with manipulating the properties of celluloid – including handmaking her own film stock with caribou gelatin – creating a diverse body of films grounded in labour, collaboration and process. Working between documentary, experimental film, expanded cinema, and performance, McIntyre reflects on displacement from Inuit Nunangat, place- and land-based methodologies, Inuit community, and survivance, often in conversation with her family history.

#### Biography
Lindsay McIntyre is an artist and filmmaker of Inuit and mixed settler descent who explores place-based knowledge, material practices and personal histories in her experimental/documentary shorts. Her films have received numerous awards and accolades and have been presented at Anthology Film Archives, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the National Museum of the American Indian, Rovaniemi Art Museum, and in film festivals worldwide. *NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ (The South Wind)* (2023), her recent leap into narrative, garnered her Best Short at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and a submission to the 2025 Academy Awards. Her related first dramatic feature, *The Words We Can’t Speak* (in development), won the Women in the Director’s Chair Feature Film Award. She is a fellow of Sundance Native Lab (2024), Forge Projects (2024) and the COUSIN Collective (2022), and teaches Film + Screen Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design on unceded Coast Salish Territory in Vancouver. 

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Distance Between Objects, Time Between Events

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Please join us to celebrate the opening of CAG's spring 2025 exhibitions: *CFGNY: Continuous Fractures Generating New Yields* and *Lindsay McIntyre: Distance Between Objects, Time Between Events*.

All ages welcome. Cash bar.

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No advance registration required.

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Spring 2025

Opening Reception

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Please join us for a screening of works by Lindsay McIntyre at The Cinematheque on the occasion of McIntyre's exhibition *Distance Between Objects, Time Between Events*. A conversation between McIntyre and CAG curator Godfre Leung will follow the screening.

This program features experimental shorts by Lindsay McIntyre that each explore what was left behind by her great-grandmother Kumaa’naaq, and what is missing. *Seeing Her* is a silent portrait depicting the beaded front panel of Kumaa’naaq’s amauti. Edited in-camera on hand-processed Super 16, the hypnotic animation parallels the abundant skill, technique and labour of the parka’s making with McIntyre’s studied, hands-on analog filmmaking. *though she never spoke, this is where her voice would have been.* features a Fisher Price audiotape recording made by McIntyre at age eight. Addressed repeatedly in the looping soundtrack but never actually heard is Kumaa’naaq’s voice, which had been inadvertently taped over in the recording, tragically erasing the only known time-based record of her. The haunting narrative documentary *her silent life.* traces the deep and unspoken intergenerational resonances of Kumaa’naaq’s displacement from the North and the disappearance of McIntyre’s grandmother Marguerite from their family.

### RSVP
Registration for this event is required. Secure your place [here](https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2025/lindsay-mcintyre).

### Accessibility
WARNING: This program contains flashing lights and high-contrast images, which may affect photosensitive viewers. This event is being held at The Cinematheque whose venue accessibility information can be found [here](https://thecinematheque.ca/about/equity-accessibility).

ASL interpretation for the talk 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.

### Biography
Lindsay McIntyre is an artist and filmmaker of Inuit and mixed settler descent who explores place-based knowledge, material practices and personal histories in her experimental/documentary shorts. Her films have received numerous awards and accolades and have been presented at Anthology Film Archives, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the National Museum of the American Indian, Rovaniemi Art Museum, and in film festivals worldwide. *NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ (The South Wind)* (2023), her recent leap into narrative, garnered her Best Short at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and a submission to the 2025 Academy Awards. Her related first dramatic feature, *The Words We Can’t Speak* (in development), won the Women in the Director’s Chair Feature Film Award. She is a fellow of Sundance Native Lab (2024), Forge Projects (2024) and the COUSIN Collective (2022), and teaches Film + Screen Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design on unceded Coast Salish Territory in Vancouver. 


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