Gallery Hours:
Sunday November 5: Opening Reception, Artist Talk, + Facilitated Jam — 2pm - 5pm (Available with Inclusive, Standard & Access Festival Pass)
Monday November 5: Gallery Hours — 1pm - 6pm (FREE/By Donation)
Tuesday November 7: Gallery Hours — 1pm - 6pm (FREE/By Donation)
Wednesday November 8: Gallery Hours — 12pm - 5pm (FREE/By Donation)
Thursday November 9: Gallery Hours — 1pm - 6pm (FREE/By Donation)
Friday November 10: Closing Reception and Discussion — 6pm - 9pm
(Available with Inclusive, Standard & Access Festival Pass)
Artist-facilitated walkthroughs are available Monday through Thursday during gallery hours. We encourage you to sign up here for a more in-depth exploration of the installation's themes and interactive elements.
You are welcome to stop by and walk in whenever the gallery is open. This installation is FREE/By Donation
Don't miss this opportunity to engage with ‘calling tidal’ and its thought-provoking perspectives on art, technology, and the environment.
Opening Reception, Artist Talk/Walkthrough, and Facilitated Jam: Sunday November 5 @ 2pm - 5pm PST
Closing Reception //
Conversation:
Resonating with Climate Change: An Exploration of 'calling tidal' with Chaprece Henry: Friday November 10 @ 6pm - 9pm PST
About the Installation
“calling tidal” is a multi-sensory, interdisciplinary installation engaging with the movement of glaciers. As a responsive space, the work investigates a phenomenological approach to the memory of water, visualizing a future where water is memorable. Informed by Queer Ecology and the ways inner nature worlds communicate their stress, Liaw utilizes interactive audio-visual technology to allow viewers to become a part of the space and meditate on their embodied relationships with the natural world. With web-found sound recordings of glaciers crashing worldwide, ‘calling tidal’ holds an aliveness with breath and quite literally cries, just like humans.
As “Metro-Vancouver” has one remaining glacier, Liaw is interested in how society publicizes climate change and how it connects with others’ anxieties surrounding the future. Thus, the work’s perspective is exploring the ways glacial environments are communicative with their rapid changing form locally and non-locally. Liaw’s interactive approaches to the installation are inspired by the ways geoscientists document the changes in glacial shape-shifting through LiDAR and colour recordings. Within a complex world that is more-than-human, Liaw is intrigued by how depth of equity is issued and how it can be embraced through the fluidity of non-human and human bodies, depicting a time-capsule of water.
Installation by: Jasmine Liaw
Sound Design Collaborator: Dino Hajdarovac
Climate Mentor: Chaprece Henry
New Media Mentor: Nancy Lee
Thank you to our Co-Commissioning Partner Charles Street Video for their support on this initiative.
Jasmine is F-O-R-M’s 2022-23 Technology and Interaction Artist in Residence.
Click here to learn more about her residency and development of this project over the last two years.