Physical/Material 2021
Arts and Archival Residency
The Physical/Material residency creates space for artists to singularly think about their creative process and the act of capturing it, while removing all pressure to produce a performative work. What Lab is offering time and resources for these artists to look inward, to consider the analog, and to expand their practices through documentation and archival procedures. Using the records these artists create, Physical/Material will culminate in the initiation of the What Lab Archive.
Artists
Josephine Lee
“My interdisciplinary practice is heavily informed by material exploration. Conceptually, my sculptures, installations, and performances, intersect narratives of dispossession and…
Montserrat Videla Samper
“I’m an actor and theatre performance maker. I gravitate towards theatre that is primarily affective, dramatic, and imagistic. My biggest…
Natalie Tin Yin Gan (顏婷妍)
“My background is in dance. Words and languaging are important to me these days– in studying voice, in teaching voice,…
Sidi Chen
Photo: Sidi Chen marking the scroll of the inner landscape of the Yukon River during the Canadian Wildness Artist Residency,…
Tamar Tabori
“However we encounter language, it is inseparable from other people. My aim in this research was to define a common…
The Kirouac Arevalo Family
“Throughout Physical/Material we embodied the decentralized structure and functionality of mycelium, to create open ended, non-linear narratives of our experiences…
Archivist
Sophie Roberge
Sophie (she/they) was born in Toronto, Ontario. She graduated with an MAS/MLIS from the University of British Columbia in 2017,…
The Physical/Material residency program is funded, in part, by the BC Arts Council, as well as individual private donors.
