Event Dates
Time
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Artist Talk
Artist Talk | Poiesis Collective: Aftertaste
ADMISSION
Free
Join us for an insightful afternoon with Poiesis Collective artists Andream, David Aquino, Vanessa Denham, Jaiden George, Khim Mata Hipol, Paniz Mani, and Charlie Mahoney-Volk, alongside guest artists Laura Ayres and Sophie Brindle. Together, the artists will reflect on their individual practices and the collaborative processes that shape the collective’s work.
Poiẽsis is an arts collective comprised of lens-based artists working and living on the unceded traditional territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations (so-called Vancouver).
The term Poiēsis is from the ancient Greek word ποιεῖν (poiein), which means to make or to bring into being. Aristotle adopted the term in his Poetics, a response to Plato’s theory of mimesis in art, as introduced in The Republic. Central to our thinking as a collective, Heidegger defined the term as the “poetical bringing into appearance and concrete imagery” of that which previously did not exist.
Poiēsis Collective is a group of artists (Andream, David Aquino, Vanessa Denham, Jaiden George, Khim Mata Hipol, Paniz Mani and Charlie Mahoney-Volk) that come from widely varying backgrounds but which are united in their commitment to approach photography in a critical yet generative manner, as well as common thematic interests in self-reflectivity, staging, economies of image production and exchange, the creation and maintenance of place and self through images, the construction and deconstruction of images, (self)portraiture, and critical perspectives on race and gender.
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