6/3/2023 0 Comments Chinese opera dragPast projects Gender Roles Playing On Stage Recipient of numerous awards, including a recent Canada Council InterArts Research and Creation Award (2017) and the Vancouver Queer Media Artist Award (2008), Laiwan has served on numerous arts juries, exhibits regularly, curates projects in Canada, the US, and Zimbabwe, is published in anthologies and journals, is a cultural activist and lives in Vancouver. Her art training began at the Emily Carr College of Art & Design (1983), and she returned to school to receive an MFA from Simon Fraser University School for Contemporary Arts (1999). Born in Zimbabwe of Chinese parents, her family immigrated to Canada in 1977 to leave the war in Rhodesia. ![]() LAIWAN is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator with a wide-ranging practice based in poetics and philosophy. The placement of the screen is fitting given that it is located exactly at the water’s edge where False Creek’s original shoreline used to be. Two Chinese grandmothers are depicted walking on water through time, alluding to evolving landscapes and lost histories. The piece was originally shown in 2011 as part of a series for the Canada Line video screens curated by Paul Wong and commissioned by the City of Vancouver. ![]() Also installed in the Scholar’s Study, Movement for Two Grannies: Five Variations, until September 23.
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