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You are invited to join us for a screening of artist Michelle-Marie Letelier’s short film The Bonding (2022) on Thursday, April 13 starting at 7:00pm, including an introduction from the artist, along with time for Q+A after the film. This event is presented in partnership with the Richmond Art Gallery as part of Letelier’s residency at the Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency.
This film is the result of a documentation of a bond with a group of farmed salmon during the 2.5 years of their programmed lifespan. This bond started on December 12th 2019 with 100 Salmo Salar eggs at the Institute of Marine Research (IMR) in Matre, Norway, and culminated with 16 salmon on March 3rd 2022.
Michelle-Marie Letelier is a Chilean artist and researcher based in Berlin. Her multidisciplinary work orchestrates transformations of ‘natural resources’, alongside extensive wide-ranging, interdisciplinary research into the sea-landscapes where their exploitation and speculation take place. Through her work, she blends different epochs, regions and societies, examining political-economic, historical and cultural aspects.
Learn more about the Blue Cabin and Michelle-Marie Letelier’s residency HERE.
Note: this film contains nudity and may not be appropriate for children.
About the Artist:
Michelle-Marie Letelier is the Artist in Residence for the Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency from March 24 – May 4, 2023. This residency will facilitate the continuation of Transhemispheria, an ongoing artistic research that explores cross-hemispherical relations, with regard to different tensions: the kinship, insertion, farming and impact of salmon; the anthropocentric management and manipulation of living marine resources, and the coexistence and disappearance of ancestral knowledge under artistic & scientific understandings. Its main objective is to provide a reflection on these issues through a series of artworks and to stimulate an interdisciplinary debate between local, artistic, philosophical, scientific and indigenous communities in the so-called Global North and Global South.
About the Hosts:
The Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency is a mobile artist residency located in Vancouver British Columbia on Canada’s Pacific Coast. Currently located on a floating platform at Imperial Landing in Steveston Village, the residency gives the artist a unique perspective on the city from the water. The deckhouse is an off the grid home with modern appliances and comforts and a 360-degree view of the harbour, while the historic cabin acts as a studio for the artist’s activities. Located on the foreshore in close proximity to shopping and amenities, the Blue Cabin provides a home base in this waterfront community within the City of Richmond. The six to eight week time frame allows the artist time for solo production as well as opportunities for engagement within the community. This residency is presented in partnership with The City of Richmond and Branscombe House.
Richmond Art Gallery (RAG) is a non-profit municipal art gallery established in 1980. The gallery produces an array of exhibitions and programs that connect, empower, and provoke conversation with our diverse Richmond, BC communities. RAG actively contributes to Richmond’s cultural communities through our commitment to supporting artists via exhibitions, educational programs, publications, and a permanent collection.
