Photo/Video/Audio
I spy… a disposable camera mail art project (2022)
I spy… a disposable camera mail art project 2020-2022 is a beautiful full-colour publication featuring photographic contributions by all 46 artists who participated in the I spy… project over its 3-year span. The project was a meeting of poetry with no frills photography held across three summers; wherein UNIT/PITT mailed a unique written prompt and a disposable camera to participating artists. The resulting catalogue exhibits 46 photo series in an asynchronous fashion, with an introduction by 2022 Curator Rachel Lau, and closing essay by Brit Bachmann who initiated and oversaw the project. Designed by Ricky Castanedo Laredo and printed by Hemlock Printers.
Book Available for purchase here.
See How We Run! Backstage Spaces — with Alen Dominguez and Caitlin Jones
Host, producer, editor of this special episode of the Below the Radar podcast out of SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement.
On this episode of See How We Run!— Samantha Walters is joined by Neworld Theatre’s managing director Alen Dominguez and consultant Caitlin Jones to talk about Progress Lab 1422’s Backstage Spaces report. Progress Lab is a building in East Vancouver that is a dedicated performance creation space and home to a collective of renowned theatre and dance companies, who collaboratively run the space with their nonprofit tenants’ board C-Space. The Backstage Spaces report provides an understanding of the issues performance creation spaces face in terms of affordability, city zoning, and property-tax, that threaten not only the companies tenancies but their creative capacities.
Composting Space (2022)
‘Composting Space’ is an audio-visual collage meditation on the use, re-use, and regeneration of public spaces in Berlin, Germany. Who does space belong to within the city? What kind of new worlds are created at the intersections of arts, culture, and ecology? The videos acts as a set of visual field notes on how communities respond to and engage with outdoor space.
Created with the support of the SFU SCA Berlin Field School.
Un-Welcoming the May Queen (2021)
Live collage video performance on the screen of a laptop. Work was backdrop for a larger piece on ‘un-welcoming’ performance.
Silverfishy (2023)
The feminine urge to be a woman not as a woman but as a man dressed as a woman (if only my hips weren’t in the way). Silverfish as a metaphor for the creepy crawly intersections between internalised misogyny and gender expression. A performance poem from between the damp walls.
Created with the support of The Frank Theatre’s Telling it Bent program. Presented at the IGNITE! Youth-Drive Arts Festival 2023 at The Cultch historic theatre.