| Residency, Reading Group, AGM, and more Donate! Support your artist-run centre  RESIDENCY SF 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 responsiveway 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 Madagascarby Chanelle Adams Illustrations by Sarah Boisard FUNAMUBLIST (November 3, 2017)Read here𝖙𝖊𝖝𝖙 𝖓𝖔.2  Below Human: On Porosity and Pervasionby Xiang Zairong diaphanes, Human after Man, eds. Susanne Witzgall & Marietta KestingRead hereThe 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 ARTISTSF 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.  LEARN MOREAGMSpecial thank you to those who joined us for the 2023-2024 Annual General Meetingfor the Nelson Fine Arts Centre Society(Oxygen Art Centre dba) onWednesday, November 20, 2024at 5:30 PM PT via Zoom. Stay tuned for more information about the incoming 2024-2025 Board of Directors! For now, review the Annual Report for 2023-2024 or the meeting documents (w/out images). Thanks for supporting your artist-run centre <3  ANNUAL REPORTMEETING DOCUMENTSBECOME A MEMBERPRINT & PASTE    special THANK YOU to Marcus Dénommé, Julia Pepler, and the incredible group of students who engaged in PRINT & PASTE a TWO-DAY Youth Art Intensive last weekend!! Taking place at Oxygen Art Centre on Saturday, November 9, 2024 + Sunday, November 10, 2024, a group of ten young artists (11 – 15 years) learned screen printing and wheat-pasting techniques. They left with original prints, t-shirts, and bags, and an appreciation for printmaking processes. + thanks to Big Cranium for loaning us a few extra squeegees!!! This program was generously supported by the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance, Cowan’s Office Supplies, SaveOn Foods, and Big Cranium.JOINSupport 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. |
