Oxygen Art Centre

NOTICE OF AGMNotice of Annual General Meetingfor the Nelson Fine Arts Centre Society (Oxygen Art Centre dba) onWednesday, November 20, 2024at 5:30 PM PT via Zoom. Register to attend the AGM to learn about the past year’s programming and finances, vote on the incoming board of directors, and support your artist-run centre by becoming a member or renewing your membership! Documents are now available to membership via Oxygen’s website and will be sent directly to all registrants via e-mail.Review the Annual Report for 2023-2024 and access the meeting documents (without images). The meeting will take place online via Zoom and be 45 minutes in length, including a slideshow presentation, as well as reporting from the Chair, Treasurer, and Executive Director. The meeting will conclude with nominations and voting for the 2024-2025 Board of Directors. To nominate incoming board members and to vote at this meeting, ensure your Oxygen membership is up-to-date. Not sure? Contact us! We can double check your status prior to the meeting. Thanks for supporting your artist-run centre <3ANNUAL REPORTMEETING DOCUMENTSREGISTER TO ATTENDBECOME A MEMBERRESIDENCYSF HoResidency: 13 November – 18 December 2024Reading Group Events: Saturdays, November 23, 30, + December 7 from 1-3 PMExhibition: 15 January – 8 March 2025 Oxygen Art Centre is delighted to welcome artist SF Ho in residence from November 13, 2024, to December 18, 2024, in preparation for their exhibition,  TRIPLE BURNER FLOWER FIELD. An origin point for this body of work is a pictograph for the word “no”, said to represent a calyx, a root, or a bird flying into the sky. Interrogating how this image and its meaning came together invites an open and responsive way of being in the world. This new/old fluidity underlies the linguistic, therapeutic, and ecological frameworks that run through the residency and exhibition.A line of inquiry travels between the meeting points of various binaries and examines the complexity that emerges from their energetic confluence. These dualities include the contrast between emptiness and negation, separation and wholeness, and value as it is understood within the sacred and within capital. The space we make attends to the slow, cyclical temporality of common plants significant to traditional Chinese medicine and the age of imperialism. It includes interviews on healing and agriculture that move from the Cultural Revolution to the current wave of diaspora from Hong Kong, arriving and unsettling without finality on unceded lands. The public are invited to attend three reading group events at the artist-run centre on Saturdays from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM on November 23, November 30, and December 7, 2024. The events will focus on shared readings related to Ho’s residency. All events are free to attend. TRIPLE BURNER FLOWER FIELD will be on view at Oxygen Art Centre from January 15, 2025, to March 8, 2025. This project is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the RDCK ReDi program.READING GROUP

𝖙𝖊𝖝𝖙 𝖓𝖔.1Pharmacie Gasy: the Neocolonial Instrumentalization of Toxicity to Discredit Healing in Madagascar by Chanelle Adams Illustrations by Sarah Boisard FUNAMUBLIST (November 3, 2017)Read here𝖙𝖊𝖝𝖙 𝖓𝖔.2Below Human: On Porosity and Pervasion by Xiang Zairong diaphanes, Human after Man, eds. Susanne Witzgall & Marietta KestingRead here

The public are invited to attend three reading group events at the artist-run centre on Saturdays from1:00 PM to 3:00 PM on November 23, November 30, and December 7, 2024.  The events will focus on shared readings related to Ho’s residency. Refreshments will be provided. Free to attend, no registration or preparation required.ABOUT THE ARTIST

SF Ho is an artist, writer and organizer. They have been living as an uninvited guest on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ peoples for over fourteen years. Operating somewhere between words and whatever words can’t be, their work is informed by feminist methodologies, land-based practices, and grassroots community networks. Ho has presented their artwork and writing both regionally and internationally. They published a book about love and aliens called George, the Parasite.

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O2 EXHIBITIONOxygen Art Centre’s sixth exhibition in the window project entitled O2, features new works by Jennifer Burke, Samonte Cruz, andBee Schroeder from11 October – 13 November 2024. Located on the Stanley Avenue side of the Nelson Trading Company building (430 Baker Street) in downtown Nelson, B.C., O2 is a window-turned-gallery.  Entitled, Purple Pain, the exhibition features a garment created by the collective artists in 2021 to explore contrasting experiences of pain and social isolation with queer resilience, trans empowerment, and gender euphoria. This program is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.LEARN MOREJOINSupport your artist-run centre by becoming an Oxygen Art Centre Member. Oxygen Memberships run from $2 (Senior/Student) to $5 (Single) to $10 (Families) and significantly help our organization. Become a member today! MEMBERSHIP BENEFITSEvents, Tours and Artist TalksVolunteer, Networking and Mentorship ExperienceRegular mailings and newslettersVoting Privileges at Oxygen Art Centre’s AGMAccess to current Exhibition Publications and CataloguesArtist-in-Residence and Exhibition ToursRegister ONLINE or by MAIL Already a Member? Consider making a Donation.REGISTERImages (top to bottom): (1) Screen capture of the Annual Report 2023-2024 cover, 2024; (2-6) SF Ho, Courtesy the Artist, 2024; (7) Purple Pain, music video documentation, Courtesy the Artists, 2022; (8) “Become a Member” text overlaid on an image documenting an installation in progress at Oxygen Art Centre, 2015;

Oxygen Art Centre info@oxygenartcentre.org #3- 320 Vernon St. (alley entrance) Nelson, B.C. V1L 4E4 Canada Facility access information Hours of Operation: Wednesdays – Saturdays, 1:00 – 5:00pm (during exhibition run) Admission by donation Oxygen Art Centre acknowledges with gratitude that we are located on the tum xula7xw/ traditional territory of the sn̓ʕay̓ckstx/the Sinixt People. As uninvited guests we honour their ongoing presence on this land. We recognize that the Sylix, Ktuxana, and Yaqan Nukij Lower Kootenay Band peoples are also connected with this land, as are Métis and many diverse Indigenous persons. We are grateful for the financial support we receive from Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, BC Gaming, Province of BC, Government of Canada, Vancouver Foundation, Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance, Columbia Basin Trust, United Way, Osprey Community Foundation, Nelson Lions Club, and Nelson and District Credit Union. We offer thanks to Polka Dot Dragon Arts Society and other key partners including Hall Printing, Speedpro Signs, and Selkirk College for their support. We especially thank all of our volunteers, donors, and members. Oxygen Art Centre is committed to ensuring all exhibitions, programs, and events are accessible to visitors. Our facilities are wheelchair accessible and equipped with an all-genders washroom. Please contact Oxygen if you have any questions or concerns about your visit.