Event Dates
Time
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Tiziana La Melia, Country Mouse City Mouse Hamster (still), 2024, single-channel video with sound. Courtesy of the Artist.
Tiziana La Melia, Country Mouse City Mouse Hamster (still), 2024, single-channel video with sound. Courtesy of the Artist.
Film Screening
Film Screening | Country Mouse City Mouse Hamster
ADMISSION
Free
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This screening brings together works by visual artists Maggie Groat, Joan Jonas, Tiziana La Melia and Krista Belle Stewart to interrogate an urban/rural entanglement in terms of land and culture. Tiziana La Melia will be present to introduce her work.
Co-presented by the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Or Gallery and The Cinematheque, the evening is an opportunity to share Tiziana La Melia’s work in the cinema, connecting to its interations in two concurrent exhibitions: Town + Country: Narratives of Property and Capital at the Belkin and Country Mouse City Mouse Hamster at Or Gallery in dialogue with works by Groat, Jones and Stewart.
Tiziana La Melia is an artist and author born in Palermo (IT) and raised on an orchard-garden on Syilx/Okanagan territories. She works across many media such as painting, poetry, sculpture, collaboration, collage and drawing. In her writing and art practice, Tiziana gleans the detritus of the everyday and transmutes it into material textures, and iterative shapes and symbols, which move through layers of diasporic time. Over the past few years, they have been editing a video that features friends and family performing the simple life in a fabled drama between hamsters and mice, travelling between the rural and the urban, while tracing familial and symbolic understandings of food, clothing, and place. In October 2022, Tiziana released Kletic Kink, a poetry album with musical compositions by Ellis Sam. Her latest book of poetry, titled lettuce lettuce please go bad, was published by Talon Books in April 2024.
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