Enchantment
Enchantment is a group exhibition that looks at the way that Chinatown-Downtown Eastside (and Vancouver in general) enchants international capital, investors, and tourists. Rebecca Bair, Julian Yi-Zhong Hou and Byron Peters insist upon a counter enchantment. To these artists, this counter enchantment comes from reworking archival materials, to insisting on the lived experience of having relations in this neighbourhood, to mobilizing speculation, and fiction, to listening to the knowledge of the surrounding communities. In a political sense, there is a degentrification of enchantment at work in this group show, and the artists invite us to reclaim the means of enchantment. Through sculpture, sound installation, and video poetry, these newly commissioned works remain alive to the ready-made imaginings of this space at the same time that they rework the knotty ties that secure the image of this place.
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Enchantment is a group exhibition that looks at the way that Chinatown-Downtown Eastside (and Vancouver in general) enchants international capital, investors, and tourists. Rebecca Bair, Julian Yi-Zhong Hou and Byron Peters insist upon a counter enchantment. To these artists, this counter enchantment comes from reworking archival materials, to insisting on the lived experience of having relations in this neighbourhood, to mobilizing speculation, and fiction, to listening to the knowledge of the surrounding communities. In a political sense, there is a degentrification of enchantment at work in this group show, and the artists invite us to reclaim the means of enchantment. Through sculpture, sound installation, and video poetry, these newly commissioned works remain alive to the ready-made imaginings of this space at the same time that they rework the knotty ties that secure the image of this place.
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