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In Fall 2022, Pacific Crossings offered an opportunity for a BC-based artist to undertake a one-month residency at Art Center Ongoing Tokyo, Japan.
Hear from the selected artist, Karilynn Ming Ho, as to what her experiences in Japan were like and what an artist may expect from an international arts residency. Curators Makiko Hara and Shaun Dacey will also join in the conversation to share their perspectives of the project and their delegation trip to Japan.
Pacific Crossings (PC) is an ongoing curatorial initiative organized by: Jesse Birch (Nanaimo Art Gallery), Allison Collins, Shaun Dacey (Richmond Art Gallery), Makiko Hara, and Henry Heng Lu. It aims to create platforms of dialogue and exchange in numerous forms including visiting curatorial/artistic research residency, online talks and lectures, screening events, workshop and exhibitions.
This talk was recorded live on February 22, 2023 and included a Q+A portion with participants from the live-stream. See the video on our menu to the right.
Hosted by RAG Education & Public Programs Coordinator, Kathy Tycholis.
Produced by the Richmond Art Gallery Association as part of the Artist Salon series.
About the Presenters:
Karilynn Ming Ho is a Vancouver-based interdisciplinary artist working with video, performance, multimedia installation, sculpture, and collage. Her work draws on existential themes as a means to examine formal and conceptual ideas around screen culture, technology, performativity, and the body. Ming Ho has exhibited in solo shows across Canada including the Glenbow Museum, Calgary; Trinity Square Video, Toronto; Optica Centre d’art Contemporain, Montreal; and Khyber ICA, Halifax. Her work has been screened widely in film and performance festivals in Canada, the US, and France.
Makiko Hara is an independent curator, lecturer, writer, art and cultural consultant, and co -founder of Pacific Crossings, based in Vancouver, BC. From 2007 to 2013, she was the Chief curator / deputy Director of Centre A —Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. She has worked with many visual artists on a variety of projects as an independent curator, including: Scotia Bank Nuit Blanche, (Toronto, Canada, 2009), AIR YONAGO, Tottori Geijyu Art Festival (Yonago, Japan, 2014-15), Fictive Communities Asia-Koganecho Bazaar (Yokohama, Japan, 2014), Rock Paper Scissors, and Cindy Mochizuki, (Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori, Japan, 2018). Hara was appointed to the Advisory on International Exchange Center, Akita University of Art, Akita, Japan in 2017-2020. Hara found My Kitchen Anthropology Museum in 2020 in responding to the Covid 19 Pandemic lockdown, Makiko Hara received The Alvin Balkind Curator’s Prize in 2020.
Shaun Dacey is Director at Richmond Art Gallery, located in Richmond, BC, Canada. Shaun has curated numerous exhibitions considering the specific histories and cultural contexts of Richmond with artists such as Karen Tam, Jon Sasaki, and Brendan Fernandes. Previous to that he was Curator at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, where he produced a range of exhibitions, educational initiatives, and off-site projects. He developed CAG’s Burrard Marina Field House Studio residency program, nurturing expansive projects with artists such as Krista Belle Stewart, Keg de Souza, Maddie Leach, Walter Scott, and Marie Lorenz. Dacey holds a Master’s degree in Critical and Curatorial Studies from the University of British Columbia, and has written for various publications including e-flux among others. He also enjoys baking and long hikes in the mountains.
About Pacific Crossings:
Pacific Crossings (PC) is an ongoing curatorial initiative organized by: Jesse Birch (Nanaimo Art Gallery), Allison Collins, Shaun Dacey (Richmond Art Gallery), Makiko Hara, and Henry Heng Lu. It aims to create platforms of dialogue and exchange in numerous forms including visiting curatorial/artistic research residency, online talks and lectures, screening events, workshop and exhibitions.
In January 2019, PC invited Nozomu Ogawa for a first curatorial residency for two weeks in Vancouver and Nanaimo. Based on the visit, we launched a flexible-long term form of artist/curator residency exchange project. Karilynn Ming Ho is the first selected artist in residency, hosted by Art Center Ongoing (funded by PC), who explored her artistic research on Emotion on AI technology in Japan. Upon Ming Ho’s residency and solo exhibition held at Art Center Ongoing, PC co-presented her artist talk, followed by a round table “Brain-storm discussion” about future exchange ideas between Ongoing collective members and two Pacific Crossings co-founding members, Makiko Hara and Shaun Dacey.
The Artist Salon is an opportunity for emerging and established visual artists to learn from arts professionals and discuss opportunities in the arts community. Each month presents a different guest presenter for inspirational talks and professional development advice for visual artists.
Past live sessions from 2020 onwards are recorded and may be viewed online at the RAG@Home Artist Salon videos.
Program is supported by the City of Richmond Arts and Culture grant. 
