Open Studios with Future Worldings Artists

Sunday, September 15—12:00PM–4:00PM. 

Performance by Wezile Harmans at 1 PM.

Presented in collaboration with Contemporary Art Society Vancouver (CASV).

In Person: Griffin Art Projects Residency Studios and Griffin Art Projects, 1180 Welch Street + 1174 Welch Street, North Vancouver

Explore Open Studios with the Future Worldings artists, showcasing works of South African artists—Lebogang Mogul Mabusela, Pebofatso Mokoena, and Wezile Harmans—and three Canadian artists—Nura Ali, Sun Forest, and Xwalacktun. This event is part of the Future Worldings Project at Griffin Art Projects.

The Open Studios offers a unique opportunity to explore what the artists have been working on during their residency. 

The event will include a 30 minute performance, held in the Griffin Gallery space, titled My Name is... to be continued by Wezile Harmans at 1 PM.

My Name is... to be continued is an ongoing series work that explores the impact and urgency of knowledge transmission in discomfort. Using live spoken words borrowed from the Indigenous people of Southern Africa, Khoisan and Nguni language, Wezile Harmans makes a reference to the tensions and disjunctures between formal and informal knowledge systems. This power struggle takes embodied form through the interplay of gestures, collective conversation and movements, which suggest that the tension between who gets to speak and who listens remains perpetually unresolved. In that process history and identity is distorted.